Recent Status of Prevalence of Rodents Infestation in Baghdad City

The study was carried out for the period March 2007 - January 2008 , in order to describe the status of the environmental sanitation and the prevalence of rodents infestation in nine quarters in Baghdad city . The results showed that the PI varied between 40 - 100% in garbage accumulation places and between 33.3 - 100% in the other sites (houses , shops , bakeries and book shops) . It was noticed that, no rodents control activities were carried out from 2003 till now because of the unsuitable conditions a especially in Baghdad city . The level of ES was bad in general according to three degrees of evaluation (weak , mid and good)