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Neither rats nor mice are poisonous. They are both very dirty and carry many diseases, and so do the fleas that are on them. As to which is more of a disease factory, I don't know. If I had to guess it would be rats.
Neither Rats or Mice are in essence poisonous. Neither secrete venom. However what i think the question is is "Do rats or Mice carry more diseases?" In which case there is some debate as to which would carry more diseases. Rats are known to carry the oriental rat flea which does carry Yersinia pestis, the organism responsible for Bubonic Plague. however mice carry other diseases which are equally lethal, and often harder to diagnose.
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∙ 11y agoDiseases and conditions transmitted by rats:
- Eosinophilic Meningitis
- *Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
- Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
- Lassa Fever
- Leptospirosis
- Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM)
- Murine Typhus
- Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
- Plague (Yersinia pestis)
- Rat-bite fever (RBF)
- Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
- South American Arenaviruses
- Tapeworms
- Tularemia
- **Rabies
Means of transmission to humans:
- Biting
- Dying in a water source drunk by humans
- Indirectly, blood-sucking insects
- Indirectly, mites
- Indirectly, infection of cats and dogs
- Infecting human food with droppings
- Infecting human food with urine
- Infecting skin wounds with urine
*Of the listed conditions, one of the most pernicious is Hantavirus. There are several forms of the virus, carried by different species of rodents. The virus can remain viable for months in droppings, and the simple act of cleaning them up and breathing the dust can lead to infection.
**While it is extremely rare for small rodents like rats to carry the rabies virus, any mammal is capable of contracting and transmitting it.
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∙ 14y agoA cat could help catch or deter the rodents If this is not an option where you live make sure there are no crumbs or other food available to attract them.
Lay bait or set traps
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∙ 9y agoRat does not spread the cholera. But then, that is possible.
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∙ 10y agoThere are lots of types of diseases that rats and mice carry. These include leptospirosis that can casue liver and kidney damage, rat-bite fever, LCMV and many more.
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∙ 12y agoleptospirosis
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∙ 11y agoNo, this is not mandatory.
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What caused the disease to spread to Italy?
Rats that were infected by the disease and have died on the side of the street to easily spread the disease
How did boats spread the disease of the black plague?
the disease was carried by rats who were on the ship
What disease do brown rats sread?
The rats themselves do not spread disease, but the fleas that are in their fur was well known for spreading the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
How did the black death get from Asia to Europe?
The Black Death was spread by rats and the fleas they carried. The disease spread slowly across Asia as it moved through the rat population. Rats travelled on ships, which crossed the Mediterranean, and the rats got into various port cities, spreading the disease. The Black Death can be spread from person to person, but the spread is much slower and ends, in the absence of the rats and fleas.
What insect did the black death use to spread the contagious disease?
It was spread by fleas carried by Black rats.
What are the harmful effects of rats to houses?
Rats can live anywhere and feed on just about everything. They can also carry disease. The Great Plague of London was spread by rats.
Who started the bubonic plague?
Rats and fleas carried the disease and spread it to the people of Europe.
What sourt of people might have helped to spread the black death?
It was not so much people that spread the disease as fleas from rats.
Did science play a role in the black death?
More properly, a LACK of science played a role. The means by which the Bubonic Plague was spread was unknown (disease spread by fleas from rats). It was blamed on night fogs, cats, and bad air. When the cats were killed, there were more rats to spread the disease.
Why is the black death happen?
The Black Death was brought to Britain by the fleas carried by rats. The rats travelled to Britain on ships and the disease spread out from the ports. Foul, overcrowded city slums proved an indeal breeding ground and the disease quickly spread.
What cause the black plague in the middle ages?
The fleas on rats. The rats had a disease that the fleas got then jumped onto the people to spread the desease.
What animal causes plague?
It was a bacterium that caused it, but rats and fleas between them were the vector which spread the disease.
