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The same happened in Rio de Janeiro in a campaign against bubonic plague in 1904. This is whats happen when you try to make a duct tape fix for a huge inequality problem. Reference: http://oswaldocruz.fiocruz.br/index.php/en/biography/scientific-career/general-directorate-of-public-health/the-campaign-against-the-bubonic-plague http://oswaldocruz.fiocruz.br/index.php/en/biography/scienti... > Since anyone could sell rats to the government, a new occupation soon appeared in the city: “ratoeiros”—literally, ratters—men who went around town buying up rats at a low price and selling them to the General Directorate of Public Health. There were even some who raised rats at home for this very purpose and also those who traveled to other cities to find them. In a short while, the “ratter” trade was doing a booming business.