County officials said tuesday that a strain of the dangerous hantavirus has been discovered in a roof rat the type of rodent that has invaded thousands of homes and apartments across southern.
Roof rat droppings dangerous.
Rat droppings can carry many harmful viruses.
If they aren t taken care of quickly roof rats can cause serious damage to your home.
Luckily it s often easy to distinguish a roof rat from other rodents.
If you noticed any such thing in your home it means your place is infested.
This is because rat feces can carry deadly diseases that you may contract by breathing it.
Roof rats can also carry fleas and spread diseases such as typhus via fleas infectious jaundice via urine in water or food rat bite fever via bites trichinosis via undercooked pork and salmonellosis via droppings.
Baiting and trapping population reduction roof rats can be dangerous they carry disease.
Rodent droppings can be very harmful to your respiratory systems and sometimes can be fatal.
Once inside they can cause all sorts of damage by.
Chewing on wires and causing electrical and fire hazards.
These can infect any household occupant from pets to people.
They can also chew through electrical wires water pipes and cause other damage to your home.
Roof rats chew holes in your soffit and eaves to gain access to the attic.
Although rats are primarily thought of as health risks roof rats can also cause serious damage to property and cause unnecessary safety risks.
Besides leaving droppings and urine that create a health hazard roof rats can also cause damage to your home.
Once you have identified that you have roof rats you can work to eliminate rats from your property in the following ways.
If you have roof rats you may see rat droppings around your home outside your home or in your yard.
These droppings may be near the dropped eaten fruit mentioned in 1.
Homeowners with a rodent infestation should exercise extreme caution before handling rat droppings.
Rats bring with them other critters that can cause disease such as ticks and fleas.
Rat droppings urine and nest can contain dangerous pathogens and bacteria that can make you very sick.