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The disease is transmitted from animals to humans.
Plague infects wild rodents, especially rats, and is transmitted animal to animal and occasionally to humans by flea bites.
As infected rats die, their body temperature drops, and hungry fleas jump to nearby sources of warmth and liquid blood.
There is more than 200 different rodents and species that can serve as a host.
These include domestic cats and dogs, squirrels, chipmunks rabbits, camels, sheep, ticks, and humane lice.
A new host is usually another rat, but in crowded cities that are extending into the countryside the next host could very easily be a human.
Bubonic plague has a1-15% mortality rate in treated cases and a 40-60% mortality rate in untreated cases.
Septicemic plague has a 40% mortality rate in treated and 100% in untreated cases
Pneumonic plague has 100% mortality rate if not treated within 24 hours of infection
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What can a mouse or rat plague affect a rural community?
http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html Rats / mice can carry fleas that carry the "Black Death" or bubonic plague.
Does mice poop affect humans?
In can. Mice carry disease and it can be carried through the feces.
Do mice carry disease?
Not all mice do...well it depends obviously depends on where you found or bought it
Can Rats Make humans Sick?
Pet mice and rats do not carry any diseases. Wild rats caused the black plague in the middle ages.
What are the chances of Baby Mice having diseases?
Rat fleas carried the pathogen that caused the plague. If the mice have been raised in a pet shop or by a breeder, there is not that great a chance of the baby mice having a disease. Unless you're talking about genetic disorders, which can arise from inbreeding. My husband and I have raised hundreds of mice and never had any problem with disease.
Who were the carriers of bubonic plague?
Rats and Mice
What did doctors burn in the plague?
mice or rats.....
Why are mice classed as vermin?
Vermin are "wild animals which are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or which carry disease". Mice, like rats, can carry diseases. Mice also eat crops, commonly corn, and are considered a pest and vermin.
What disease can mice give to food?
Food poisoning. Mice carry a multitude of bacteria that comes from their environment, so depending on where the mouse has been, depends on what they'll leave behind.
How do you know how old a baby mouse is when you found it outside?
Leave it outside. These mice are unclean, carry disease, and contaminate/sicken your other mice. If you are really curious, snap some pictures and show mice owners online.
What was the first animal to get the plague and spread it to humans?
Rats, fleas, and mice where mainly the first to get the plague and spread it around.
Can a guihea pig live with a wild mouse?
no, the guinea pig should live with its own kind, wild mice also carry disease.
