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DISEASES TRANSMITTED BY THE PARASITES OF THE RATS.

The way of the rats being contagious is on having been in touch with excrements or dead animals.

 The diseases transmitted by parasites of the rats are:

•              Endemic Epidemic Typhus : Is common in the tropical and subtropical countries. Usually it is called murino typhus or urban, usually they transmit it the parasites like fleas or lice that take the rats. This disease attacks the human beings of secondary form, since the main guest is the rat. The symptoms appear about ten days after the puncture and consist of elevated fever, cerebral pain in muscles and the joints, rigidity, migraine, and upheavals.

•               Bubonic Plague :es caused by the Yersinia bacterium pestis. Being una zoonosis specially of countryside rodents that can be transmitted to the human beings by means of the fleas. Well-known from the antiquity, the first world-wide pandemic registry in old Egypt taking place the death of 50% of the population of North Africa, Europe and Western Asia. Most serious denominated the black plague se produced en century XIV and I generate the death of 25 million people, a third of the world-wide population died because of this disease, supposed before and later in the social habits specially in the hygienic ones. Today remains an active disease, appears abruptly with very high fever, chills, intense thirst, sickness and exhaustion. Its characteristic is that appear in some glangios shape (armpits, ingles and neck), very painful and that get to ulcerar themselves, with necrosis abundant and hemorrhages. Due to these inflammations forth in the skin bring other effects secondary , forming bluish blisters and pustules.

•                The Disease of Chagas : is the name with which the infection is designated in the human being by a protozoan of the order Kinetoplastida called Tripanosoma cruzi. This present disease exclusively in Latin America, where it affects at least 18 countries of the continent, in two ecological zones, according to his behavior: in the South Cone, where the vector is within the houses of the man, and in the rest of Latin America, where the vector lives as much inside as outside the houses.

The parasites like fleas, ticks, etc. that take the rats and mice, are those who transmit the diseases.