There have been many cases of unexplained deaths, for example: A store clerk was told to .
clean up the warehouse in the back of the store, a couple of days later he started feeling like he was coming down with the stomach flu, achy joints,headache and vomiting. Within two days later he .
was so ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66 and his face and eyes had turned yellow. .
He went to the mergency room, where they said he was suffering with organ failure. A couple of.
days later he died of liver, kidney pancreas and blatter failure. They found that the store room was .
filthy and noticed there was rat droppings and urine that he had been exposed to. When the rat .
droppings dry, they turn to dust and are easily inhaled. This cause a virus called the Hanta virus .
which has been reconized a disease only in North America. Although the chances of being infected .
with this disease are low, It is deadly.
Another case that has occurred in Belgium. A woman went boating on a Sunday, She took .
some cans of coke. That Monday she became very sick and was rushed into the hospital. She was .
put in ICU and that Wednesday she died. She had gotten a disease called Leptospirosis, a disease.
which rat urine contains. This disease causes aches, fever, possibly jaundice, liver and kidney .
complications. A test showed she was effected by the rat urine and this was the cause of the disease. .
A brief investigation by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta discovered the cause. The top of .
the can was encrusted with dried rat urine which is toxic and said to be lethal. .
There is no indications that this is a myth but they dont have enough sources to say its a fact. .
It is said that these diseases arent carried by all rats, the most common is the deer rat but you cant .
catch these diseases from a healthy rat,although you can catch these diseases from excretions of a .
sick rat. .
Although this has not been proven a fact.