Rats are huge rodents that are a major nuisance Truman, Bennet, and Butts, 1982. They contaminate grain, wreak havoc on food processing and storage facilities, and may bite sleeping children and adults. Rats have caused more human death, suffering, and economic hardship than any other vertebrate pest during the course of history. Rats are recognized carriers of insect’s lice, fleas, and mites that transmit plague and murine typhus, and as such they contributed to the fourteenth-century plague epidemics that killed an estimated 25 million people. Rats may also spread Wails disease or leptospirosis; food infected with rat faces can cause trichinosis and severe food poisoning. Rats may also be infected with pathogens that cause typhoid, dysentery, and rabies.
Vertebrate Pests, Pesticides, Pesticide Toxicity
[Ms. Pramoda Hegde (2022) Vertebrate Pests and Their Characteristics] (ISSN 2347 - 5552). www.ijircst.org
Ms. Pramoda Hegde
Assistant Professor,
Masters In Business Administration, Presidency University, Bangalore, India
Email Id:pramodah@presidencyuniversity.in
