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ALL ABOUT KILL & SEAL TRAPS - Mice Risks
| | Mice carry parasites which can carry diseases. Those parasites feed off blood so when the mouse dies they must find another warm body immediately. That can be anyone in your family: you, your pet or your children. When the parasites bite they can transmit a number of diseases. Lyme Disease
Description: | Skin lesions, fever, headaches, arthralgias
| Carrier: | All rodents; most commonly deer mice | Mode of Transmission: | Rodent tick bite | Comments: | This is the most common and widespread tick-borne disease in the U.S.
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Typhus Description: | Fever, headache, rash, respiratory attack | 
| Carrier: | Rats, Mice | Mode of Transmission: | Rat flea bite
| Comments: | Port cities or riverine environments, often serve as havens for rats harboring fleas. |
Plague Description: | Attacks circulatory & respiratory systems | Carrier: | Various rodents | Mode of Transmission: | Rodent flea bite or by handling an infected animal | Comments: | Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages; Plague still occurs in many part of the world |
Pox (Rickettsial)
Description: | Lesion followed by fever, headache, rash
| Carrier: | House Mouse | Mode of Transmission: | Bite of a mite which lives on mice | Comments: | An outbreak of this disease occurred in 1946 in housing developments in New York City which were overrun with mite-infested mice | | |
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