Jerry Brower

Rat Bite Fever

The rat is an intelligent and clever rodent that has long been humankind’s oldest competitor.

This nocturnal scavenger has existed on earth for centuries traveling around the world Spreading Scores of Diseases, Biting Millions of People and Causing Billions of Dollars in Property Damage each year.

• Rats have contributed to the death of more humans that all the wars and revolutions in history combined.
• The world-wide damage and destruction caused by rats and mice exceeds $ 20 Billion Dollars per year.
• Rats destroy 20 percent of human food supplies annually, enough food to Eliminate world hunger.
• Rats carry more than 20 often fatal diseases, including Bubonic Plague, Dysentery, Rabis, Spotted Fever and many more.
• Dangerous disease-carrying insects infest rats, including the Flea, Tick, Louse, Mite and Mosquito.
• A rat can smell poison one part in one million and will urinate on the poison to warn other rats not to touch it.
• A pair of rats can potentially produce 620,000 descendants in only three year if left unchecked.
• Thousands of building fires of unknown origin are cause by rats gnawing insulation from electrical wiring.
• A common house mouse can be as dangerous to humans as the rat and carries with it the same infection diseases.

Source: National Geographic

Facts About Poisons:

Poison Control Centers report that over 1,150,000 Children (5 and under) are exposed to Poisons each year.

National Animal Poison Control Centers have over 400,000 individual cases of Pet Poisonings each year.

Note: The information in this article is not the intellectual property of Jerry Brower but has been compiled from National Geographic for the purpose of informing as many people as possible of the dangers of one of mankinds' biggest enemies.... the Rodent.

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