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.
Roof rat droppings dangerous.
Rat droppings urine and nest can contain dangerous pathogens and bacteria that can make you very sick.
Homeowners with a rodent infestation should exercise extreme caution before handling rat droppings.
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Although rats are primarily thought of as health risks roof rats can also cause serious damage to property and cause unnecessary safety risks.
If you have roof rats you may see rat droppings around your home outside your home or in your yard.
Luckily it s often easy to distinguish a roof rat from other rodents.
Rat droppings can carry many harmful viruses.
Rats bring with them other critters that can cause disease such as ticks and fleas.
Once you have identified that you have roof rats you can work to eliminate rats from your property in the following ways.
Rat feces carry a number of potentially fatal diseases that spread to humans usually by hand to mouth contact.
Rodent droppings can be very harmful to your respiratory systems and sometimes can be fatal.
Homeowners across the country have experienced water damage from a chewed up pipe or worse still suffered an electrical fire after roof rats have destroyed wiring.
They can also chew through electrical wires water pipes and cause other damage to your home.
If they aren t taken care of quickly roof rats can cause serious damage to your home.
Roof rats chew holes in your soffit and eaves to gain access to the attic.
If you noticed any such thing in your home it means your place is infested.
Besides leaving droppings and urine that create a health hazard roof rats can also cause damage to your home.
Though transmission is rare today there are still a handful of cases in the u s.
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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.