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DISEASES AND DAMAGES THAT PRODUCE THA RATS. The rats that have lived next to the man from the beginning of the times, because on them Aristoteles also wrote and Alexander Magno, demonstrating its knowledge. At the moment they exist almost in everybody, they travel next to the man crossing the oceans in boats resisting high and low temperatures, live anywhere, in the field, the gardens, rubbish, culverts and with the man in his own house.
The rats and mice are a few climbing experts. These animals eat almost of all the foods that consume the man, but preferring the sweetened substances, the milk, the cheese, the meat, the fat, the fruits and grains of cereal, But they will choose that more they like if they have opportunity. Also the rats are become fond of to drinks even with alcohol, in Sherry of the Border in famous wine warehouses offers a peculiar spectacle to their visitors, es to see the drunk mice leaving their hiding places to drink sweet sherry. The rats and mice produce physical damages in the walls, the wood beams, the pipes and the electrical cables, being a great danger for the libraries, because they destroy them totally, are ten more destructive times with the food that the foods that can arrive to consume.
A good bait or claim for the traps of mice is to place a small portion of cheese. To all this it is united to him that the rats are the animals that more diseases trasmiten direct and indirectly human beings and animals. These diseases can transmit them through three methods. Indirectly by means of own vectors of the rat like fleas, lice and acaruses. Directly through his excrements, it tinkles, saliva, hairs, etc. and by direct bonding with the rats or bites. There are diseases that the rodents can transmit by contact of infected matters. The more important for the prevention of the diseases is to have extreme care of with the cleaning of the house, utensils of kitchen, etc. y elimination of sources of meals within the house or to cover them with hermetic containers with closing; to eliminate the poops material and tinkles of the rats, but before to sprinkle with a treatment antivirus to inactivate any virus and to avoid the broom use that renews the concentrated dust.
To avoid in everything possible to accumulate food remains and garbages contributes to the elimination of rats. For to avoid that the rodents nest themselves in the homes, also is important to close the garbage in buckets of plastic or metal and out of the home; to cover or to seal to all the greater openings of 0.5 cm. with chicken wire or cement; To place when this is necessary the fuelwood to 30 meters or more of the house, elevating the wood of the ground on 30 cm.;Also it is important not to guard in the gardens, remains of tires vehicles and other articles that can be used for nests; the cut well lawn and shrubs.
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