Over the next 1-4 days, a vesicular rash develops. Diagnosis is by serology and treatment is with tetracycline. The condition is generally benign. It is excreted in their saliva, urine and faeces and is transmitted to man via food, dust, bites and in the handling of pets and dead mice. This may progress to meningitis with paralysis and coma, though deaths are rare.
Diagnosis is by serology.
Lassa Fever is derived from multimammate rats which carry the virus lifelong if infected congenitally. Transmission to man is by urine and food. Person to person transmission is by aerosol and infected body fluids. Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, which cries out for an eponym but doesn't appear to have one, is caused by the Hantaan virus written of a few issues back.