Are Rats Cleaner Than Cats And Dogs? Rats are very clean and will spend many hours a day grooming themselves and their rat buddies. Rats clean themselves so much that they are said to be cleaner than dogs and cats! Rats can swim or wade in the water for up to three days without drowning!
Are Rats Harmful? Public health concerns Some of the diseases that can be spread from rats to people are bubonic and pneumonic plague, murine typhus, salmonella, leptospirosis, Hantavirus, and tularemia. What does rat do to humans? Rodents can infect humans directly with diseases such as hantavirus, ratbite fever, lymphocytic choriomeningitis and leptospirosis. They may also