Diseases are easily spread from people to people, as well as from animals to people. This is why everyone should always take precautions before touching or coming intact with an unknown substance. San Jose rat’s urine is excelling to becoming a very deadly disease in many levels. Therefore, when you find a rat in your home always take action on how to get rid of it. That will be the safest thing to do for you and your family members/roommates.
1) Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: This is one of the most serious illnesses that rat’s urine transmits. It causes infection in the lungs. At times this can be deadly (which is the worst case). Since infections can get even bigger until the lungs goes into failure. At times, it can be treatable.
2) Letospirosis: This is a tiny, curly substance inside the human that can cause a range of diseases. Scaling from a normal headache to bleeding inside the lunges. This is serious as well, but not as serious as Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. Once healed, you need to make sure all the curly substances are out of your system.
Letospirosis Symptoms
These may not be considered as diseases but they are just as serious: Kidney and Liver failure. And at times heart, brain and lunges problems! They are able to harm them when the letospirosis infection enters the organs of the human body.
1) Kidney: you tend to lose your appetite. Since the loss of appetite stays consistent through many days, you tend to lose weight as well. You will experience shortness of breath, urination and rapid heartbeat. Thus affecting how the heart will function. Unfortunately, ankles, feet and hands get swollen and you may not be able to move properly.
2) Liver: The liver tends to have the same symptoms are the kidney. However, there is no need to fear, you can receive a check-up to know which organ is the correct organ that is contaminated. As well as, fixing the issue before it starts.
3) Heart: Usually the symptoms are the same as well. But in order to indicate that it may be a heart disease condition, the heart rate will need to have increased to a certain level. Thus becoming vital aspect to check it out.
4) Brain: When you brain gets infected with the rat’s urine, you will experience a lot of exotic and horrible symptoms. Ranging from high fever, vomiting, neck pain and nausea. You start to question your mental state, which then causes you behavior to become more aggressive than it should. Lastly, your senses become very hard to control. This is a very bad state and should get checked out right away.
5) Lungs: This is easy to figure out. It is either when you cough blood or have shortness of breath.
Summary
California rats can harm the human body in numerous ways. Get your house cleaned and be safe from any rat issues that may occur now or in the near future. And take precautions on what to do to stay bacteria free.
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