A cleaner tackles the drains at Tuen Mun’s Yau Oi Estate. Photo: Sam Tsang
A cleaner tackles the drains at Tuen Mun’s Yau Oi Estate. Photo: Sam Tsang

Sweet potatoes for bait and one-door cages – why Hong Kong’s old-style pest control methods are under fire after latest cases of rat hepatitis E infection in humans

  • Team of more than 20 cleaners start disinfecting Tuen Mun estate where one patient had lived
  • Outdated trapping methods and lack of support for private housing estates among complaints

A cleaner tackles the drains at Tuen Mun’s Yau Oi Estate. Photo: Sam Tsang
A cleaner tackles the drains at Tuen Mun’s Yau Oi Estate. Photo: Sam Tsang
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