A stock clerk was sent to clean up a storeroom in Maui, Hawaii.
When he got back, he was complaining that the storeroom was really filthy and that he had noticed dried mouse/rat droppings in some areas.
A couple of days later, he started to feel like he was coming down with a stomach flu, complained of sore joints and headaches, and began to vomit.
He went to bed and never really got up again. Within two days he was severely ill and weak. His blood sugar count was down to 66, and his face and eyeballs were yellow. He was rushed to the emergency at Pali-Momi, where he was diagnosed to be suffering from massive organ failure. He died shortly before midnight. No one would have made the connection between his job and his death, had it not been for a doctor who specifically asked if he had been in a warehouse or exposed to dried rat/mouse droppings at any time. They said there is a virus (much like the Hanta virus) that lives in dried rat and mouse droppings.
Once dried, these droppings are like dust and can easily be breathed in or ingested if a person does not wear protective gear or fails to wash face and hands thoroughly.
An autopsy was performed on the clerk to verify the doctor's suspicions. This is why it is extremely important to ALWAYS carefully rinse off the tops of canned sodas or foods, and to wipe off pasta packaging, cereal boxes, and so on.
Almost everything you buy in a supermarket was stored in a warehouse at one time or another, and stores themselves often have rodents.
Most of us remember to wash vegetables and fruits but never think of boxes and cans. The ugly truth is, even the most modern, upper-class, super store has rats and mice. And their warehouse most assuredly does!
Whenever you buy any canned soft drink, please make sure that you wash the top with running water and soap or, if that is not available, drink with a straw.
The investigation of soda cans by the Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta discovered that the tops of soda cans can be encrusted with dried rat's urine, which is so toxic it can be lethal. Canned drinks and other foodstuffs are stored in warehouses and containers that are usually infested with rodents, and then they get transported to retail outlets without being properly cleaned.

Important
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Chers amis;

Vous avez sans doute remarqué que récemment une
épidémie de fièvre s’est abattue sur la population haïtienne. Elle est due, apparemment, à la période de pluies qui charrient des détritus et, du même coup, des microbes en grande quantité. Ces derniers donnent lieu à des mouches, des cafards et autres insectes du même genre, qui circulent aux alentours de nos maisons et qui sont porteurs de ces microbes générateurs de fièvre.

De plus, l’eau des puits commerciaux (camions d’eau) et ceux de la CAMEP est également infectée et provoque, en plus de la fièvre si elle est bue sans traitement préalable, des démangeaisons cutanées.

En ce sens, des mesures préventives s’imposent.

- L’eau doit être traitée, quelle que soit l’utilisation
prévue,

- Les maisons et leurs alentours doivent être débarrassés de toute insalubrité et désinfectés par insecticides au besoin pour détruire les insectes propageant la fièvre,

- Utilisez toutes autres mesures préventives ou correctives
fiables.

Faites circuler ce message à plus de gens possible car l’épidémie continue à faire des victimes. Si vous avez eu cette fièvre et que vous lisez ce message, estimez-vous heureux d’être encore en vie et de pouvoir épargner un ami d’un tel malheur. Certains n’ont pas eu autant de chance que vous et en sont morts. Merci de sauver la vie des autres par ces conseils

INFORMATION DE HAUTE IMPORTANCE!!!
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