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 dropping s 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.
Please forward this message
to the people you care about.
(I JUST DID!)
