In Roman times the averagelifespan was just 22 (mainly because of the appalling rate of infant mortality), by 1800 it was 40 years, 1900 around the late 40s and today it hovers around the mid-to-late 70s.
If the SenesTech taste test proves successful and birth-control bait is used throughout the transit system, the averagelifespan of subway rats which now tops out at about one year, according to Mr. Lamb would probably rise slightly even as the total population declines.
This was the first fall in a decade and dashed hopes that the lifespan of the average Russian would beat the Gorbachev-era peak and exceed 70 years for the first time ever.
These patients have a 25 times greater risk of kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes and blindness, and have an average of 15 years sliced off their lifespan.