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PATHOGEN CONTROL

Pests are known vectors of disease and food contamination. A summary of the types of pathogens which a wide range of pests can carry and transmit is listed below for your information.

All pests should be treated without delay, particularly in areas where they present an increased health risk, such as food preparation premises, hotels, offices, healthcare centers and so forth.

The resultant human cost can be illness which may not only effect your customers but also your staff, resulting in lost work days,

ECONOMIC COSTS

As well as the risk to health, pests also carry an economic cost with them. This can range from the loss of actual business due to pest contamination, such as damaged food stock and a hotel room being out of commission due to the presence of bedbugs; the loss of customer goodwill and ‘bad publicity’ and fines resulting from the breach of the law and regulations.

It is clear that at the end of the day...

PESTS COST YOUR BUSINESS MONEY!

Summary of some of the pathogens that pests can carry and transmit:

• Cockroaches present a ‘significant’ public health risk due to their movement from unhygienic areas such as drains and sewers to food preparation resulting in the contamination of food, food utensils and work surfaces with diseases such as:
  Diarrhea, dysentery, food poisoning, gastroenteritis, pneumonia, salmonellosis tuberculosis, asthma, allergic reactions, infectious hepatitis, typhoid, conjunctivitis, catarrh colitis, poliomyelitis, anthrax, fungal diseases.
• Flies: Cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, ophthalmia, polio, staph infections, E. coli food poisoning, salmonellosis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever.
• Rats and mice are responsible for transmitting a number of diseases via their urine and droppings. Some of the more common diseases are: Dysentery, Weil’s disease (leptospirosis), toxoplasmosis, salmonellosis, haemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, meningitis, plague, hantavirus, rabies, typhus, rat-bite fever, babesiosis, spotted fever, trichinosis.
  Both the rats and mice have front teeth (incisors) which are long, sharp and very hard. These teeth grow continuously and hence these animals continually need to gnaw, resulting in:
  Damage and contamination of stored and processed food.
  Structural damage of a wide range of materials and property.
  In addition to the damage and diseases that rodents cause some people have a strong phobia of rodents, which can result in aversive stress and anxiety
• Pharaohs Ants: Staph infections, salmonellosis
• Bees and wasps: Allergic reactions, wasps can also carry bacteria they come into contact with when foraging around rubbish areas and contaminate foodstuffs they then come into contact with.
• Birds: Histoplasmosis, ornithosis, salmonellosis, cryptococcosis, encephalitis, toxoplasmosis, Newcastle disease
• Rodent Fleas: Murine typhus, plague (although not associated with the UK)
• Cat, Dog fleas: can cause painful bites allergic reactions and secondary infections.
• Bedbugs: Bedbug bites appear as hard whitish swellings, concentrated around the upper torso and arms of the host. The bites can be painful and sore, causing local irritation and secondary infections if scratched.
  The bites are often unsightly, and bloodstains can often be found on the sheets of a bed in the morning due to biting by the insect.
  Dark speckled spots (excrement), blood and an unpleasant almond smell can also result from the activities of the bedbug.