2006-12-20 20:12:08 · 14 answers · asked by tulazuta 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
TYPHOID FEVER, BUBONIC PLAGUE, RABIES (to say the least),....... you need more?
2006-12-20 20:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by iroc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Luckily in England the disease transmitted directly by rats is relatively few. The only ones (8) I can think of are:
The liver worm Capillaria
cestode wrom Hymenolepsis diminuta
Leptospira spp. bacteria causing Weil's disease
Listeria spp. bacteria causing listeriosis
Yersinia enterocolitica bacteria causing yersiniosis
Pasturella spp. bacteria causing Pasturellosis
Pseudomonas spp. bacteria causing Meilioidosis
Cryptosporidium parvum causing cryptosporidiosiss
Toxoplasma gondii causing toxoplasmosis
Trichinellosis (If you don't cook your bacon properly)
Probably also
Salmonella
In other countries like Norway & the USA
Rabies (rare)
However, it should be noted the rats can be hosts for vectors that can spread other pathogens. Too many to name but notably:
Typhus
Bubonic Plague: flea Xenopsylla cheopis carrying Yersinia pestis (the rare Black Rat is not the main culprit).
Hepatitus
This is rats that don't bite you.
Then you get:
Streptobacillus moniliformis
cf. dogs and cats disease?
2006-12-21 09:06:32 · answer #2 · answered by Perseus 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can catch the Bubonic Plague from rats. It's actually transported from the fleas that live on rats.
2006-12-21 23:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weils disease is one.
Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever or 7-day fever) is a bacterial zoonotic disease caused by spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira that affects humans and a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. It was first described by Adolf Weil in 1886 when he reported an "acute infectious disease with enlargement of spleen, jaundice and nephritis". The pathogen, Leptospira-genus bacteria was isolated in 1907 from post mortem renal tissue slice.
Though being recognised among the world's most common zoonosis, leptospirosis is a relatively rare bacterial infection in humans. The infection is commonly transmitted to humans by allowing fresh water that has been contaminated by animal urine to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, eyes or with the mucous membranes.
Except for tropical areas, leptospirosis cases have a relatively distinct seasonality with most of them occurring August through September (in the Northern Hemisphere).
2006-12-21 04:13:15 · answer #4 · answered by marykin 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Weils disease or leptospirosis can be caught from rats. Depends if you are taking wild sewer rats or domesticated pet type tho
2006-12-21 04:31:31 · answer #5 · answered by la.bruja0805 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bubonic plague
2006-12-21 04:19:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typhoid
2006-12-21 04:30:31 · answer #7 · answered by D G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the better question is what diesease can't you catch from rats?
Good Luck!!!
2006-12-21 04:14:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Weils, Bubonic plague. rabies, they can carry malaria and transmit to mosquitos which give it to humans.
2006-12-21 04:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by vaughndhume 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of the worst is cheddarlabryinthophobia, the fear of mazes with cheese at the end.
2006-12-21 04:21:43 · answer #10 · answered by warn_terr 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋