Health Hazards Posed by Rodents


Names of infections transmitted by Rodent

Do you know that most people do not realize, that rodents can be much more than a nuisance? Rodents such as rats and mice are associated with a number of health risks. In fact, rats and mice are known to spread more than 35 diseases. These diseases can be spread to humans directly through the handling of live or dead rodents, contact with rodent feces, urine, or saliva, as well as rodent bites. Diseases carried by rodents can also be spread to humans indirectly through fleas, ticks, or mites that have fed on an infected rodent.

Rodent droppings can trigger allergies and transmit food-borne illnesses such as salmonella. Furthermore, mice are capable of dropping up to 25,000 fecal pellets each year, an estimated 70 times each day. Therefore, prevention and prompt removal in case of a rodent infestation are key.

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The diseases spread by rats and mice can also be transferred indirectly by ticks, fleas, and mites that live on infected rats.

The following are some of the Infections transmitted by rodents

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome

Rodent(s) involved: Deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus), Cotton rat (Sigmodon Hispidus), Rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)

Agent: Virus

Where the disease occurs

Throughout most of North and South America

How the disease spreads

Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings
Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently.
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome

Rodent(s) involved: Striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius), brown or Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), yellow-necked field mouse (Apodemus flavicollis).

Agent: Virus

Where the disease occurs

Primarily in eastern Asia, Russia, Korea, Scandinavia, western Europe, and the Balkans

How the disease spreads

Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings
Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently
The disease may spread through direct contact from person to person, but it is extremely rare
Lassa Fever

Rodent(s) involved: Multi-mammate rat (Mastomys natalensis species complex)

Agent: Virus

Where the disease occurs

West Africa

How the disease spreads

Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings
Eating food that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently
The disease may spread through direct contact from person to person
Leptospirosis

Rodent(s) involved

Rodents and other animals

Agent: Bacteria

Where the disease occurs

Worldwide

How the disease spreads

Eating food or drinking water contaminated with urine from infected animals
Contact through the skin or mucous membranes (such as inside the nose) with water or soil that is contaminated with the urine from infected animals
Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM)

Rodent(s) involved

House mouse (Mus musculus)

Agent: Virus

Where the disease occurs

Worldwide

How the disease spreads

Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings
Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever

Rodent(s) involved

Muskrats and possibly narrow-skulled voles

Agent: Virus

Where the disease occurs

Western Siberia

How the disease spreads

Direct contact with infected animal
Bite from an infected tick
Plague

Rodent(s) involved

Wild rodents, including rock squirrels, prarie dogs, wood rats, fox squirrels and other species of ground squirrels and chipmunks

Agent: Bacteria

Where the disease occurs

Western US, South America, Africa, Asia

How the disease spreads

Bite of an infected flea
Direct contact with an infected animal
Rat-Bite Fever

Rodent(s) involved

Rats and possibly mice

Agent: Bacteria

Where the disease occurs

Worldwide; Streptobacillus moniliformis in North America and Europe; Spirillum minue in Asia and Africa

How the disease spreads

Bite or scratch wound from an infected rodent, or contact with a dead rodent
Eating or drinking food or water that is contaminated by rat feces.
Salmonellosis

Rodent(s) involved

Rats and mice

Agent: Bacteria

Where the disease occurs

Worldwide

How the disease spreads

Eating or drinking food or water that is contaminated by rat feces
South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)

Rodent(s) involved

Cane rat (Zygodontomys brevicauda), drylands vesper mouse, (Calomys musculinus), large vesper mouse (Calomys callosus)

Agent: Virus

Where the disease occurs

South America: parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela and Brazil

How the disease spreads

Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings
Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings
Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently
The disease may rarely spread through direct contact from person to person.
Tularemia

Rodent(s) involved

Wild rodents, including muskrats, ground squirrels and beavers

Agent: Bacteria

Where the disease occurs

Worldwide

How the disease spreads

Handling infected animal carcasses
Being bitten by an infected tick, deerfly or other insects
Eating or drinking contaminated food or water
Breathing in the bacteria, F. tularensis.

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