Why are rats harmful?

Answer 1

They carry disease, and if you have them at home (non pet rats) then they basically pee and poo everywhere they run. They also chew on electric wires.

First of all they contaminate the environment around you, eat up ur shoes, food, clothes etc and leave their feces and pathogenic bacteria behind...

They can cause diseases like rat bite fever

HPS

leptospirosis etc......

Rats are dangerous because they carry a flea within themselves known as the rat flea.

When this flea bites a person, a deathly disease known as plague is transmitted. This disease was in rampage in the olden times and had eradicated most of the world population. It is believed that more people had died due to plague than in the World Wars.

Also, rats are pests and destroy all food items and furniture.

Answer 2

Because they may carry plague

Rats can carry any number of organisms including rabies, lice, fleas, hantavirus, murine Typhus, streptobacillus, salmonella, and leptospirosis which can cause disease in humans.

Answer 3

They carry diseases, or they can carry fleas which carry diseases that are deadly to humans.

Answer 4

Noo rats are really safe and they make the best pets. They're really clean and low matinence. They are really sweet, they like to lick people. I love rats!!

Answer 5

Completely harmless, they are very friendly, make good pets, and the rumors about them carry or having diseases are false.

Answer 6

Because it can cause a serious disease called Leptospirosis and the rat is dirty