The least problem you can have with the feces from any wild animal is it's smell, yes, wild animal feces including Modesto rodent feces can carry any one of a number of seriously dangerous viruses as well is probably in a short time being infested with insects that also can carry diseases. I know there is a lot of information out there about rats being carriers of the bubonic plague, this is an urban myth, it is not the rat that has plagued, it is the fleas that live on the rat that are the carriers of this particular disease, so killing the rat will probably only have the effect of actually spreading the disease by making the fleas look for a new host and human beings are big and warm-blooded.



If you hire an exterminator because you have animals either living in your roof space or attic or under your porch or house then part of their service should be to clean up the mess left by the California animals, especially in your roof and attic. To clean out your roof and attic the exterminator will put on a full body biohazard suit with an antibacterial facemask to breath through while completing the work, so the question has to be if this is what professionals do when dealing with animal feces then it probably shouldn't be either touched or breathed in if it has dried out and is turning to dust, to me it is just plain common sense.

These days most health authorities state that the most dangerous virus can get from wild animal feces is hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. This is a respiratory disease that Modesto rodents in particular spread through their urine, saliva and particularly feces. Humans can contract this disease when they breathe in dust containing the aerosolized virus. Hantavirus was first recognized in 1993 and has since been found to exist right across the United States, hantavirus although rare is considered potentially deadly. The authorities also state that the main risk of contracting hantavirus is through rodent infestation around the home. Children and the elderly are of course like with any other virus most at risk.

The biggest problem with hantavirus is that most people who contract the disease at first only believe they have the flu. This idea is generally not dispelled until the second phase of the virus, at this time but once fill with fluid and breathing problems become much worse, it is also at this time that with your lungs full of fluid you may not be able to breathe and effectively drown. Another problem with hantavirus is that it has no set incubation period, symptoms can appear between one and five weeks after exposure, which means even for doctors it is much harder to diagnose initially.

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