You can contract diseases from both pet and wild rodents such as your house mouse or sewer rat. Many deadly diseases are associated with them and they would include Hantavirus, Leptospirosis, LCMV (Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis), salmonella and Tularemia. Besides spreading diseases rodents can also cause damage to your property by chewing, biting, scratching and nibbling. Mice have formidable front teeth or incisors that are quite capable of nibbling at leftover food and tearing in to food packets. They can cause costly damages such as cutting your car engine wires, setting fire by chewing electric wires and getting inside insulation. You cannot let this happen to your property and family members and your best pet to get mice out of home is to engage BBPP, professional mice control Etobicoke and effective pest control service for nearby towns.
What are the attractions your home offers to rodents?
Mice that initially live near your home in thickets, field, tree trunks and sewer line gradually make their appearance in your home by entering through small holes and crevices on the wall, climbing tree located nearby the house and jumping on to the roof, expanding openings found in the foundation or simply getting in to your house through open doors and windows. Once in they seek secrete places like under the floorboard, false ceiling, old storage, home clutter, outhouse, barn, attic, garage and basement. These offer plenty of protection and concealment and they quietly work to build nests and produce babies. You will not detect their presence till they grow in numbers and they start jostling with each other during night or communicate with others in screechy sounds.
Mice actually take asylum in houses to escape outside chill. This happens in winter and your home offers the above cozy places where they can build nests and live unnoticed by you. However you can detect their presence by tell tale signs of their droppings and movements throughout your home. You will find mice droppings the size of rice grain, urine stains on the floor, mice hair and saliva stains on the floor. If you find heap of mice feces you can be sure that a family of mice is lurking somewhere nearby.
Diseases they could spread among inhabitants
Hantavirus, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)
You catch this severe illness when you are exposed to mice droppings or urine of deer mouse, which is the primary carrier of the virus. These are diseases that have no definite cure. Time detection and appropriate antibiotics are able to save victims. However one third of the victims die of the infection each year in North America.
Leptospirosis
This disease can make you really sick and it gives off no symptoms. It infects human when they are exposed to soil and water contaminated by infected mice urine. However these diseases affect people living in tropical areas and temperate lands.
Plague
Everybody who knows history also know plague. It is spread by the bite of an infected flea and caused by Yersinia pestis germ. The disease has wiped out generations in Europe in the middle ages. The disease however can be treated with antibiotics.
Salmonellosis
Salmonellosis can weaken your immune system and it is caused by a bacterial infection of intestines. The germ actually is flushed out in the stool of infected rodents. You can get the disease by contaminated water or milk by the virus. It affects children and elders severely.
Rat bite fever
This disease is caused bacteria which are carried by rats and it flows through their nostrils and mouth. If an infected rat scratches you, it will latch on to you. If you are in a profession where you have to handle rats then you are the likely candidate for the disease.
It is crucial for you to prevent these infections reaching your home and your family members. Your best chance lies with professional mouse exterminators like BBPP, the best most experienced pest control Etobicoke and you can contact them on phone number 647 910 6315 or email info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote for mice extermination.