D.C. is using birth control medication to prevent rodent pregnancies in the city’s latest attempt to curb the rising rat population.
Ayanna Bennett, the director of D.C. Health, said the hormonal medication is part of a three-pronged approach that also involves two forms of poison, bait and tracking powder, to lower the number of rats in the city.
“The fertility control is only going to be for those who survive the other two methods,” Bennett told WTOP’s Kate Ryan…