Cenk Uygur
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'Rat Girl' Stopped, Will Breed Rats No More (Hopefully)
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June 8, 2014
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4:40Now Playing"First, there was Batkid. Now, sadly, there is "Rat Girl" — and she's contributing to a skin-crawling public health problem in San Francisco.
KTVU's David Stevenson reports that a troubled San Francisco woman has been "breeding" rats and letting them loose into the city for years.
Identified only as 43-year-old Erica J., the woman first came to the attention of the city in 2011 when Animal Care and Control discovered she had bred "hundreds" of rats out of her room at a Minna Street residential hotel in the South of Market neighborhood.
By the end of that May, public health officials had exterminated "thousands" of rats from the surrounding area."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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