Most people will keep their home spick and span and take great care to ensure that there is no rubbish left around or leftover food to entice unwelcome guests. Unfortunately no matter how much care you take sometimes you just cannot avoid a rodent infestation.
The most common rodents that are found today tend to be the common house mouse and the brown rat. The rat that is known to spread the most disease (the black or ships rat) is now not widespread as in previous generations.
This has also been helped by anti rodent techniques and better pest control products so infestations are not as common as they have been in the past.
A number of diseases can be implicated to rats as the carriers and this is probably why they are so despised, although some people keep them as pets. The disease that most people will remember being taught at school though is about bubonic plague which ravaged England in the 17th century, continuing to about 1910.
Even today though with conditions far more sanitary than every before, these unwelcome pests can still carry disease and bring it into the home so if you do suspect infestation make sure you take some action or get help from your local exterminator or pest control shop.
The biggest risk of disease in reality is to people that work or spend a lot of time in water i.e. sewer workers, water sport enthusiasts and even trainee army and sea cadets, who go on training weekends running through still water or ponds. They will be more prone to the risk of Weil's disease which is carried in around 70% of rats.
There are other considerations apart from diseases of course and that is the damage that rodents can inflict on the fabric of your home. Rodents have an insatiable need to constantly gnaw to wear down their teeth which are constantly growing. Electrical cables and pipes are a particular favourite and can be damaged sufficiently to cause a fire risk.
It's important to catch infestion as early as possible as a female rat can have a litter of baby rats (called kittens) when only four months old. She may then carry on to having up to five litters (14 kittens) per year, and then as the baby grows the reproductive cycle starts again.
The most common rodents that are found today tend to be the common house mouse and the brown rat. The rat that is known to spread the most disease (the black or ships rat) is now not widespread as in previous generations.
This has also been helped by anti rodent techniques and better pest control products so infestations are not as common as they have been in the past.
A number of diseases can be implicated to rats as the carriers and this is probably why they are so despised, although some people keep them as pets. The disease that most people will remember being taught at school though is about bubonic plague which ravaged England in the 17th century, continuing to about 1910.
Even today though with conditions far more sanitary than every before, these unwelcome pests can still carry disease and bring it into the home so if you do suspect infestation make sure you take some action or get help from your local exterminator or pest control shop.
The biggest risk of disease in reality is to people that work or spend a lot of time in water i.e. sewer workers, water sport enthusiasts and even trainee army and sea cadets, who go on training weekends running through still water or ponds. They will be more prone to the risk of Weil's disease which is carried in around 70% of rats.
There are other considerations apart from diseases of course and that is the damage that rodents can inflict on the fabric of your home. Rodents have an insatiable need to constantly gnaw to wear down their teeth which are constantly growing. Electrical cables and pipes are a particular favourite and can be damaged sufficiently to cause a fire risk.
It's important to catch infestion as early as possible as a female rat can have a litter of baby rats (called kittens) when only four months old. She may then carry on to having up to five litters (14 kittens) per year, and then as the baby grows the reproductive cycle starts again.
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