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How can rodents affect a community's health?
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Spreading diseases: If you are in drect contact with rodents or their urine/ feces ,contaminated soil or water it can transmit Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Leptospirosis, Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis, rat bite fever, Plague, Salmonellosis or Tularemia
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