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How Do Humans Get Sick From Mice?

There are many good reasons to avoid mice.

House mice can transit disease to people:

- by biting

- by infecting human food with droppings

- by infecting human food with urine

- by infecting skin wounds with urine

- via airborne dust from dried droppings

- indirectly, by blood-sucking insects

- indirectly, by mites
 
- indirectly, by means of cats and dogs

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