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Plague, tularemia, and leptospirosis have been acquired in the handling and skinning of rodents, rabbits, and carnivores. Humans have usually acquired diseases like Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Lyme disease because they have spent time in optimal habitats of disease vectors and hosts.
HomeViral Borne Diseases. Dr. Rogers and collaborators recently had a paper published in Vector-Bourne and Zoonotic diseases documenting current research in viral diseases carried by rodents. There is a family of viruses that causes symptoms of hemorrhagic fevers, a group of diseases that are transmitted by rodents. Disease outbreaks have occurred in Africa and South America. Dr. Rogers and his colleagues began looking for evidence of the hemorrhagic fever virus in Mexico.