Raise dust of excreta from rodents

Contact with Humans or Animals

CDC - Who Is at Risk of Getting HPS, and Why?

Pathogens

Diseases associated with this job task:

• Arenaviral hemorrhagic fevers (S. America)
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
• Lassa fever
• Leptospirosis
• Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
• Rat-bite fever

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• Electricians
• Farmers & Ranchers
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• Farmworkers, Farm & Ranch Animals
• Fence Erectors
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• Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
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• Material-Moving Workers, All Other
• Millwrights
• Office Workers
• Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
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• Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers & Applicators, Vegetation
• Pipelayers
• Plumbers, pipefitters & steamfitters
• Rail-Track Laying & Maintenance Equipment Operators
• Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
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• Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists