This is actual facts.

 

IMPORTANT

 

A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom in Maui, Hawaii.

 

When he got back, he was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy and that he had noticed dried mouse or rat droppings in some areas.

 

A couple of days later, he started to feel like he was coming down with a stomach flu, complained of sore joints and headaches, and began to vomit.

 

He went to bed and never really got up again. Within two days he was severely ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66, and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency at Pali-Momi, where he was diagnosed to be suffering from massive organ failure. He died shortly before midnight.

 

No one would have made the connection between his job and his death, had it not been for a doctor who specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat or mouse droppings at any time. They said there is a virus (much like the Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings.

 

Once dried, these droppings are like dust and can easily be breathed in or ingested if a person does not wear protective gear or fails to wash face and hands thoroughly.

 

An autopsy was performed on the clerk to verify the doctor's suspicions.

 

This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods, and to wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, and so on. Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often have rodents.

 

Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruits but never think of boxes and cans.

 

The ugly truth is, even the most modern, upper-class, super store has rats and mice. And their warehouse most assuredly does!

 

Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that you wash the top with running water and soap or, if that is not available, drink with a straw.

 

The investigation of soda cans by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta discovered that the tops of soda cans can be encrusted with dried rat's urine, which is so toxic it can be lethal. Canned drinks and other foodstuffs are stored in warehouses and containers that are usually infested with Rodents, and then they get transported to retail outlets without being properly cleaned.

Yes. Point worth repeating is the POSSIBLY invected rodent droppings or urine, almost unseeable after dried, even squirrels and chipmunks or any creature or surface they came into contact with, like your pet cat or dog or birds from the squirrel nests ... also homes with no basements that have space between floor and ground like motor homes, or compost piles, sheds, etc ... caves ... where these pests thrive, could be building up this toxic infected waste below your home ... which vapors especially in hot climates where humidity dries out of earth and rises to your home ... could carry said lethal virus.

 

To keep things in perspective ... it is not very common. But ofcourse you should be more aware of danger if any of above conditions are met by you anywhere.

 

PS: A similar virus killed 1/3 of Europe and 1/4 of Britian about 100 yrs ago. The "Black Plaque". We can stop it from happening again by sharing knowledge of where it comes from and using proper care and cleansing of ourselves. ;-)

 

Hence the many organizations under various names like UNICEF and maybe "United Nations" that have been working on this for decades to educate small countries not just in hopes of prevention of it spreading to the world. ;-) Thus the importance of ALL WORLD COUNTRIES in allowing such help and conformation of education to their public so the world FEELS less at risk. ;-)

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/raturine.asp

 

There's so many of these stories floating around in email. Very few of them are actually true.

A similar virus killed 1/3 of Europe and 1/4 of Britian about 100 yrs ago. The "Black Plaque". We can stop it from happening again by sharing knowledge of where it comes from and using proper care and cleansing of ourselves

the only thing killing massing amounts of people about 100 years ago would have been world war 1 (1914-1918)

 

the bubonic plague was in the middle of the 1300s

 

sorry, im a history major

 

but i absolutely agree on the rat stuff. a while back at work they had me clean up our outside file storage room...it was covering in cat and rat and racoon droppings...i refused to even go in the room without a particle mask and gloves. my boss didnt believe me when i told him the dust from rat droppings could be deadly.

notice snopes only covers the rat urine(which even they say can still carry deadly bacteria). i know several people who work for a couple of local exterminators. any time they come into contact with rat droppings, they imediately put on filtered particle masks.

i'm glad those that posted corrected me on the severity of it. but my point is what of those that don't know about it and risk their life for that whatever from wherever ... 1/100 chnace ? it's a fact, no matter how small a fact. seems important to spread once in awhile atleast, especially humid southern U.S./like climates where high humidity is common (New Orleans?)

notice snopes only covers the rat urine(which even they say can still carry deadly bacteria). i know several people who work for a couple of local exterminators. any time they come into contact with rat droppings, they imediately put on filtered particle masks.

I am not saying "it's safe, let's all go play in powdered rat feces!" I am saying this story is a hoax. Use common sense in how you handle things, and you have nothing to worry about. Just don't freak out if you get an email saying:

 

OMG, do this and you will die!

the only thing killing massing amounts of people about 100 years ago would have been world war 1 (1914-1918)

 

the bubonic plague was in the middle of the 1300s

 

sorry, im a history major

I think he forgot a "0"...

I am not saying "it's safe, let's all go play in powdered rat feces!" I am saying this story is a hoax. Use common sense in how you handle things, and you have nothing to worry about. Just don't freak out if you get an email saying:

"Roger that fatman". Agreed. I back down when appropriate. I won't back down to the appropriateness of this factual possibly life saving info for those that simply may be totally unaware. especially considering what southern U.S. has gone through from hurricane floods.

I am not saying "it's safe, let's all go play in powdered rat feces!" I am saying this story is a hoax. Use common sense in how you handle things, and you have nothing to worry about. Just don't freak out if you get an email saying:

"Roger that fatman". Agreed. I back down when appropriate. I won't back down to the appropriateness of this factual possiblity life saving info for those that simply may be totally unaware.

 

Anyone atleast in central southern U.S. that has seen media of warnings of long delayed aftermath from hurricane floods ? Not just Hanta virus. Black mold in walls also can be lethal to your lungs. That's why much area coorunteened and many buildings found unsafe.

 

Problem is getting everyone to know. Also many disagree. I would not disagree with findings of the same Government body protecting us from biological terrorist attack.

 

It amazes me how many are quick to contradict real threats.

 

But yes you're right we don't want unnecessary panic. But I certainly would want to be told, and from where ? if i might have a threat.

"it's safe, let's all go play in powdered rat feces!"

man, im so sig'ing that

Well that changed the way i drink soda forever. but it's a good thing i read this. and i feel very sorry for that guy....

wow, thanks guys u really know how to brighten up my day. If you wanna so somtin else thats scary, think about the quaker oats man, now that guy is dangerous if you ask me. who knows how many peopel he's killed with is so called "quaker oats" that a just crawing with rats.