Rats are potential threat to your life and property if it not controlled.
This animal is a threat to your property
- It can chew your wallboards, cardboards, electrical wiring and wooden furniture. The chewed-up wires create risk of electric circuit break and fire.
- Rats cause 15% Food Loss across the world.
Rat can introduce secondary pests : Rat can introduce other pests such as flies, mites, and ticks into the area and cause more damage.
Dangerous carriers of life-threatening diseases
- Transmission of Hantavirus : it transmits to human body through exhalation or exposure of urine or faecal matter that result into Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), a respiratory disease, sometimes fatal.
- Salmonellosis : spread this virus through rodent faeces, people will be exposed to diarrhoea, fever, vomiting and abdominal cramps
- Rat Bite Fever : it is spread through bites or scratches from infected rats. It is a high potentially fatal disease.
- The plague : Pasteurella bacteria is usually transmitted by rodents
Rats cause a lot of pollution : A single rat is exposed to more than 25,000 drops per year, which can cause acute allergic reactions.