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To: sauropod
> I wonder what the transmission mechanism is between rodent and human. This ought to be stoppable.

I think it's infected fleas. Carried by the rodents, jump to humans.

8 posted on 01/16/2008 4:31:05 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

Got it.

I had this mental picture of rats biting people while they slept, but it seems to me to be preventable if that was the case.


9 posted on 01/16/2008 4:35:45 AM PST by sauropod (Fred Reed: "Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.")
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