Mice infestation can be a devastating experience for house owners. Rodents like rats and mice despite their innocent looks can be dangerous foe as they are capable of destroying your property, pillaging your food storage and significantly spreading lethal diseases like plague. When you spot a single mouse on your kitchen table you should immediately become alert and ready to face consequences of mice infestation. Mice seek shelter inside your home by building nests in most secret places including your outdoor building and garden. Once they have settled in cozily they will start hunting food indoors and raid your food stock, leftover food, pet food and anything that smells like food. During the process they also spread they urinate, defecate and shed hair on your home surfaces. This usually leads to contamination and infections as these items tend to carry infectious microorganisms that are contagious. The diseases they spread could be lethal for human and pets so it is necessary for you to get rid of them from home and call expert services like BBPP, most effective Mouse Exterminator Mississauga to accomplish that.
Diseases spread by rodents
When rodents are present at home your health is at risk, as most of the carry bacteria and virus that are capable of infecting people. Rodents like mice spread these infections through their urine, droppings, hair, and saliva and following are the diseases that you are potentially exposed to when they infest your homes.
Hantavirus
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a serious illness spread by mice and it can cause fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, respiratory and pulmonary diseases and kidney injury.
Rat-Bite-Fever
A bacterium known as Streptobacillus moniliformis causes this disease and it happens when you are scratched by a rat, handling infected rats, or coming in direct contact with urine. Rats carry the bacteria in their upper respiratory tract. Affected people will experience fever, chills and headache besides muscle and joint pain. Some people develop rashes on their arms and legs.
LCMV
It is a kind of meningitis and it is caused by your common house mice and they get the infection from wild mice when they come into contact with them. it is spread through mouse droppings, urine, and saliva or coming in direct contact with injured mice. the symptoms will start with mild fever and in time will develop into severe meningitis and encephalitis, both lethal infections.
Leptospirosis
It is carried by mice and other rodents and causes a wide range of symptoms like high fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, red eye, jaundice, diarrhea, rashes and abdominal pain. It happens in two phases and the second phase is always the dangerous one.
These are deadly diseases that can result in catastrophic results. People may have to be hospitalized because of these diseases but prevention is always better than cure. You must ensure that your home is not infested with rodents and accordingly take measures using experienced mice exterminators like BBPP, best pest control Mississauga. To contact them you can call the number 647-910-6315 or send email info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote in the process.