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Category: Rodent inspection

Rodent Removal And Prevention Information

Whatcom County posted some helpful information about the risks of rodents. Here is what the County’s website says:

  1. Rodents — Rodents can be a nuisance and cause health risks. Rodents may cause damage and can carry diseases. Rodents may also carry fleas or ticks that may transmit disease. It is important to seal up places rodents may enter and remove their access to food, water, and shelter.
https://www.whatcomcounty.us/3255/Animal-Exposure

This ties in with one of our earlier blog posts about the need for rodent inspections for your home:

We serve a good portion of Washington including our new office in Bellingham, which serves nearby towns such as Marietta-Alderwood and Ferndale. In recent weeks we have made videos from that area of the state showing clips from recent pest control jobs.

One of these recent videos shows some of our methods for natural pest control and rodent prevention for rats, mice and similar pests:

When you are ready to book an inspection you are welcome to contact us.

1-800-ECO-1698 or Send a Text or you may book online using this button:

Reasons Why Rodent Inspection Is Important

One of our services is rodent control, and that typically starts with an inspection of your home or place of business. This short video shows you just some of the steps we take during a typical rodent inspection in the communities we serve.

We sometimes get asked why rodent inspection is a necessary step and part of a regular home maintenance plan.

We found some helpful resources to answer those questions for you:

This is from the Washington State Department of Health:

Rodents such as mice and rats can carry harmful diseases. Diseases from rodents can spread to people through bite wounds, eating contaminated food or water, or breathing in germs from rodent urine or droppings that are stirred into the air. People can also get diseases from rodent ticks, mites, and fleas.

In Washington, deer mice are the main carriers of a virus that cause hantavirus in people. Hantavirus is a rare, but potentially fatal respiratory disease. Avoid stirring up the dust in rodent-contaminated areas to help prevent exposure to hantavirus.

https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/pests/rodents

This next information comes from the Whatcom County website:

How Rodents Spread Disease

Rodents can carry diseases that may be transmitted through:

  • A bite.
  • Breathing in germs from rodent urine or feces that are stirred up into the air.
  • Eating or drinking food or water contaminated by rodents.

Rodents may also carry ticks or fleas that could transmit disease.

Hantavirus & Other Diseases Spread by Rodents

In Washington State, deer mice may carry a type of virus called hantavirus. Hantavirus causes Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), a serious condition in which the lungs become filled with fluid so that it becomes hard to breathe. Most people require hospital care, and about 1 in 3 people with HPS have died. You might be at risk of HPS if you are cleaning up areas where rodent urine and droppings get stirred up into the air and inhaled.

Rodents also carry diseases such as leptospirosistularemia, and rat-bite fever.

https://www.whatcomcounty.us/3258/Rodents