Texas health regulators overrun by ‘several hundred’ rats at Austin headquarters

AUSTIN (The Texas Tribune) — On Oct. 17, Brenda Brantley, an employee at Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission, was in her second-floor office at the agency’s Austin headquarters when she received an unexpected visitor.
The beady-eyed infiltrator — a brown rat of the species Rattus norvegicus — scurried down the carpeted hallway before ducking behind a filing cabinet, employee correspondence shows.
The sight was sufficiently distu