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  2. Rodent mite dermatitis - Wikipedia

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    Rodent mite dermatitis (also known as rat mite dermatitis) is an often unrecognized ectoparasitosis occurring after human contact with haematophagous mesostigmatid mites that infest rodents, such as house mice, [1] rats [2] and hamsters. [3]

  3. Neurolathyrism - Wikipedia

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    Neurolathyrism, is a neurological disease of humans, caused by eating certain legumes of the genus Lathyrus.This disease is mainly associated with the consumption of Lathyrus sativus (also known as grass pea, chickling pea, kesari dal, or almorta) and to a lesser degree with Lathyrus cicera, Lathyrus ochrus and Lathyrus clymenum [1] containing the toxin ODAP.

  4. Ornithonyssus bacoti - Wikipedia

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    Ornithonyssus bacoti (also known as the tropical rat mite and formerly called Liponyssus bacoti) is a hematophagous parasite. [1] It feeds on blood and serum from many hosts. [2] [3] O. bacoti can be found and cause disease on rats and wild rodents most commonly, but also small mammals and humans when other hosts are scarce.

  5. 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak - Wikipedia

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    Transmission electron micrograph of the Sin Nombre virus, the virus responsible for the outbreak. The spherical particles are virus bodies (virions). The 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak was a disease outbreak caused by a hantavirus that occurred in the Four Corners region of the US states in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  6. Lathyrism - Wikipedia

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    Eating the grasspea with legumes having high concentrations of sulphur-based amino acids reduces the risk of lathyrism if such grain is available. Some states in India have banned the sale of Lathyrus seed in order to prevent its consumption, which in turn lessens the possibility of lathyrism in the general population.

  7. Leptospirosis - Wikipedia

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    More than ten genetic types of Leptospira cause disease in humans. [13] Both wild and domestic animals can spread the disease, most commonly rodents. [8] The bacteria are spread to humans through animal urine or feces, or water or soil contaminated with animal urine and feces, coming into contact with the eyes, mouth, nose or breaks in the skin ...

  8. Pest (organism) - Wikipedia

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    A pest is any living thing which humans consider troublesome to themselves, their possessions, or the environment. [1] Pests can cause issues with crops, human or animal health, buildings, and wild areas or larger landscapes. [2] An older usage of the word "pest" is of a deadly epidemic disease, specifically plague.

  9. Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia

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    These three types of T. gondii have differing effects on certain hosts, mainly mice and humans due to their variation in genotypes. [90] Type I: virulent in mice and humans, seen in people with AIDS. Type II: non-virulent in mice, virulent in humans (mostly Europe and North America), seen in people with AIDS.