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Rat urine is poisonous to humans. This statement is not entirely true, not entirely false either.
Are you one of those people to have read in their email few years ago, stating that certain people have fallen ill and eventually died just days after coming into contact with contaminated soda cans? The cans were claimed to be smeared with dried rat urine.
Did you know that the verity of these stories was being questioned? Why? How come that the victims’ names were left unmentioned? Those incidents were not even found in the news. Commonly, if a person dies of mysterious or intriguing causes then you can expect a media raving soon enough. That’s not to say though that rat urine stories haven’t been in the news after all.
Urine or any other kind of waste discharge from a healthy rat isn’t potentially deadly to humans. From a sick rat, however, it’s a whole different thing.
Leptospirosis, also known as Weil’s disease, is a hidden destructive illness brought by bacteria found in sick rat’s waste as well as on frog, rabbit, and snake’s waste. It can be acquired by ingesting, swimming, or splashing in contaminated water. That is why you should never play in the rain where the streets are flooded, especially in areas where parasite infestations are high. More prone to this disease are those with open cuts and wounds.
It is therefore, advisable to wash or wipe soda cans (so as glass, plates, and other utensils) before using them. It’s not just rat urine that causes danger to us but also from other disease-carrying species, including humans came into contact with it long before you did.
