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Could dead rats bring diseases?
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Per the CDC: Disease: That can be transmitted to humans via rats include: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (rice rat), hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (brown or norway rat ), lassa fever (multi-mammate rat), plague (wood rats), rat-bite fever, salmonellosis ; south american arenaviruses (argentine hemorrhagic fever, bolivian hemorrhagic fever, sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, venezuelan hemorrhagic fever) (cane.
Answered 1/23/2014
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