RODENT CONTROLL
Rodents like rats, mice, and chipmunks carry many diseases. Diseases can spread to people directly and indirectly from rodents. The following list provides links to more information about some diseases that can spread from rodents; these are not exhaustive lists.
DISEASES ARE SPREAD BY RODENTS.
Certain diseases can spread from rodents to people through direct contact with infected rodents (for example, breathing in contaminated air, touching contaminated materials and then touching eyes, noses, or mouths, being bitten or scratched by an infected rodent, or eating food contaminated by an infected rodent).
Also diseases can spread from rodents to people through indirect contact. This can occur when people are bitten by ticks, mites, fleas, and mosquitoes that have fed on infected rodents. Diseases can also spread to people from rodents through the consumption of an intermediate host (for example, beetles or cockroaches).
MOST COMMON DISEASES DIRECTLY SPREAD BY RODENTS
- Hantavirus
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
- Lassa Fever
- Leptospirosis
- Lujo Hemorrhagic Fever
- Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCM)
- Monkeypox
- Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
- Rat-Bite Fever
- Salmonellosis
- South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Chapare Hemorrhagic Fever, Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
- Sylvatic Typhus
- Tularemia
