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• Pest Control |
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Residential and commercial treating structures for insects (i.e., roaches, ants, spiders, fleas, etc.) |
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• Rodent Control |
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Residential and commercial treating structures for rats and mice with both bait and mechanical methods available |
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• Lawn Maintenance |
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Residential and commercial mowing, edging, and fertilization |
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• Fumigation |
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Achieving an effective fumigation consists of much more than just eradicating your termites |
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• Termites |
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If you have them you don’t necessarily know it. |
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• Company Address |
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Haskell Termite & Pest Control, 1519 Hillsborough Ave. W. • Tampa, FL 33603
Phone: 813-239-1790
Fax: 813-239-0168
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Rick@Haskell-Termite.com |
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• Health Threats from Rodent Infestation
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Rodent infestation may cause several problems, including contamination of food, damage to property and disease transmission. Rats can produce twelve to sixteen milliliters of urine and up to fifty fecal droppings in a twenty-four hour period. Gnawing of electrical cables is but one example of property damage that might result from the presence of rodents in buildings. Contamination of stored food with rodent feces or urine can transmit diseases to both humans and pets and can increase spoilage and render foods inedible.
Rodent lice, mites and fleas can also infest other animals and, occasionally, people. Worldwide, many rodent-transmitted diseases cause varying degrees of morbidity and mortality. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists several rodent-transmitted diseases important in the United States.
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome is an often deadly disease transmitted by rodents through urine, feces, or saliva. There are more than twenty-five antigenically different viral species of hantavirus, each associated with a single rodent species. The cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) and the rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) have been the rodents implicated in cases in and the southeastern United States. Humans can contract the disease after inhalation of dried, aerosolized secretions. Although a rare disease (Since 1959 less than 400 cases have been reported in the U.S. and Canada) the severity of the condition underscores reason for concern. The mortality rate for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome is thirty-eight percent.
The best prevention of exposure is rodent control in and around the home. Murine typhus, a rickettsial infection caused by Rickettsia typhi, is a disease that occurs worldwide and is transmitted to humans by rat fleas. In some areas peridomestic cycles involving cats, dogs, opossums and their fleas may exist. The disease is more common in summer months, but in warmer climes the condition can occur year round. In the United States, most cases have been reported from California, Hawaii, southern Texas and the Gulf Coast. Symptoms of the disease often include headache, myalgia and rash and seldom last longer than two weeks. The disease is often mild, but untreated severe cases can be fatal.
Rat infested buildings and homes, especially in port cities or in riverine environments, often serve as havens for rats harboring fleas.
Rat-bite fever is a systemic bacterial illness that is most often transmitted to humans through a bite or scratch. One might also acquire the disease through ingestion of food or water contaminated with rat feces.
The etiologic agents are Streptobacillus moniliformis and Spirillum minus. Possible symptoms include fever, chills, muscle pain, vomiting, headache, rash and adenopathy. In approximately fifty percent of patients, the disease progresses to a non-suppurative polyarthritis or arthralgia. Occasionally solid organ abscesses, pneumonia, endocarditis, myocarditis, or meningitis occur. The case fatality rate of rat-bite fever in untreated cases is approximately seven to ten percent.
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• Health Alert |
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Amazing information you need to know and should know about health risk you are exposed to. |
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