IIRC - Weil's Disease. I remember a newspaper article about a young boy
dying from it after a rat jumped from his rabbits cage and sprayed him with
urine.

Rats and I expect mice certainly carry a nasty disease in the UK, just ask
a
vermin control expert, I don't know what the disease is, just that it's the
urine that's the problem.

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