San Francisco Walgreens Forced to Close Over ‘Severe Rat Infestation’

According to a recent report, San Francisco ranks No. 5 on a list of the 'rattiest' U.S. cities

Rats eat grains of puffed rice in Allahabad, India on July 28, 2015. Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images

By Amanda Breen 

A Walgreens in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood was shut down on November 8 following a “severe rat infestation,” a report from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, first noted by SFGate, revealed.

Inspectors on site cited “imminent health hazards that could not be immediately corrected,” which included rat-contaminated food on the sales floor and in an upstairs storage area, where they “observed containers of noodles, flour, and other food products gnawed and with vermin droppings on and around them.”