COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO HEALTH AGENCY DEPARTMENT Jeff Hamm Health Agency Director Penny Borenstein, MD, MPH Health Officer/Public Health Director

DISEASES DIRECTLY TRANSMITTED BY May 17, 2017 Diseases Agent Where How it Spreads Additional Information

. Hantavirus . Deer mouse . Virus . North and . Breathing in dust that is . https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus Pulmonary . Cotton rat South contaminated with rodent urine /hps/index.html Syndrome . Rice rat America or droppings . https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/ . White-footed . Direct contact with rodents or pdf/HPS_Brochure.pdf mouse their urine and droppings . https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/ . Bite wounds, although infrequent pdf/HPS_Brochure_sp.pdf (Spanish)

. Hemorrhagic . Striped field . Virus . Eastern . Breathing in dust that is . https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus with mouse Asia contaminated with rodent urine /hfrs/index.html Renal . Norway rat . or droppings Syndrome . Bank vole . Korea . Direct contact with rodents or . Yellow-necked . Scandinavia their urine and droppings field mouse . W. . Bite wounds, although infrequent . Person to person contact, but rare . Lassa Fever . Multi- . Virus . West . Breathing in dust that is . https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/lassa/ mammate rat Africa contaminated with rodent urine or droppings . Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings . Bite wounds, although infrequent . Person to person contact, but rare

Environmental Health Services 2156 Sierra Way, Suite B | San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 | (P) 805-781-5544 | (F) 805-781-4211 www.slopublichealth.org/ehs Diseases Rodent Agent Where How it Spreads Additional Information

. . Roof rat . . Worldwide . Eating food or drinking water . https://www.cdc.gov/leptospirosis/i . Rodents and contaminated with urine from ndex.html other animals infected animals . Contact through the skin or mucous membranes (such as inside the nose) with water or soil that is contaminated with the urine from infected animals . Lymphocytic . House mouse . Virus . Worldwide . Breathing in dust that is . https://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/s Chorio- contaminated with rodent urine pb/mnpages/dispages/lcmv.htm meningitis or droppings . Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings . Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently . Omsk . Muskrats . Virus . Western . Direct contact with infected . https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/omsk/inde Hemorrhagic . Narrow- Siberia animal x.html fever skulled voles . Bite from an infected tick . Plague . Rock squirrel . Bacteria . Western . Bite of an infected . https://www.cdc.gov/plague/ . Prairie dogs US . Direct contact with infected . Wood rats . South animal . Fox squirrel America . Ground . Africa squirrels . Asia . Roof rat . Rat-Bite . Roof rat . Bacteria . Worldwide . Bite or scratch wound from an . https://www.cdc.gov/rat-bite- fever . Other rats infected rodent, or contact with a fever/index.html . Mice dead rodent . Eating or drinking food or water that is contaminated by rat feces.

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. . Roof rat . Bacteria . Worldwide . Eating or drinking food or water . https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/p . Rats that is contaminated by rat feces. ets/small- . Mice mammals/salmonella.html . South . Cane rat . Virus . South . Breathing in dust that is . https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/virus- American . Dryland vesper America contaminated with rodent urine families/arenaviridae.html Arenaviruses mouse . Argentina or droppings . Large vesper . Bolivia . Direct contact with rodents or mouse . their urine and droppings . Brazil . Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently . The disease may rarely spread through direct contact from person to person . . Muskrats . Bacteria . Worldwide . Handling infected animal . https://www.cdc.gov/tularemia/ . Ground carcasses squirrels . Being bitten by an infected tick, . Beavers deerfly or other insect . Eating or drinking contaminated food or water . Breathing in the bacteria, F. tularensis DISEASES INDIRECTLY TRANSMITTED BY RODENTS:  Babesiosis  Rocky Mountain  Colorado Tick Fever  Sylvatic Typus  Cutaneous Leishmaniasis  West Nile Virus  Human Granulocytic  La Crosse Encephalitis   Murine  Powassan Virus   Relapsing Fever

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Deer Mouse Norway Rat

Cotton Rat Bank Vole

Rice Rat Yellow-necked Field Mouse

White Footed Mouse Multi-mammate Rat

Striped Field Mouse House Mouse

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Prairie Dog

Muskrat

Wood Rat

Ground Squirrel

Fox Squirrel

Beaver

Cane Rat

Narrow Skulled Vole

Dryland Vesper Mouse

Roof Rat Rock Squirrel

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