COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO HEALTH AGENCY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT Jeff Hamm Health Agency Director Penny Borenstein, MD, MPH Health Officer/Public Health Director DISEASES DIRECTLY TRANSMITTED BY RODENTS May 17, 2017 Diseases Rodent 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 Fever with mouse Asia contaminated with rodent urine /hfrs/index.html Renal . Norway rat . Russia or droppings Syndrome . Bank vole . Korea . Direct contact with rodents or . Yellow-necked . Scandinavia their urine and droppings field mouse . W. Europe . 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 . Leptospirosis . Roof rat . Bacteria . 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 flea . 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. Page 2 of 5 Diseases Rodent Agent Where How it Spreads Additional Information . Salmonellosis . 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 . Venezuela 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 . Tularemia . 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 Spotted Fever Colorado Tick Fever Sylvatic Typus Cutaneous Leishmaniasis West Nile Virus Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis La Crosse Encephalitis Lyme Disease Murine Typhus Powassan Virus Scrub Typhus Rickettsialpox Relapsing Fever Page 3 of 5 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 Page 4 of 5 Prairie Dog Muskrat Wood Rat Ground Squirrel Fox Squirrel Beaver Cane Rat Narrow Skulled Vole Dryland Vesper Mouse Roof Rat Rock Squirrel Page 5 of 5 .