Leptospirosis -- Australia
The 2 pictures in The Queensland Times of [13 May 2021], accompanying the article by Phoebe Looms, show only dead, respectively caged rats, and not mice, as the 2 legends incorrectly mention. The wild brown rat (_Rattus norvegicus_) and the black rat (_R. rattus_) are murid rodent species, distinctively different from all "mice" species, and can be the reservoir of up to 10 different zoonotic pathogens, particularly the now dominant wild brown rat. For example, the latter can excrete in its
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8380596&promed&0
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