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This disease can cause headaches, fever, nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal
pain. Rodents can also expose our customers to the rodents hitchhiking
buddies, leas, mites, ticks, and lice.
Educate your customers to stay consistent with cleaning to ensure
there are no food crumbs or spills left behind, keep their garbage
and storage spaces free of clutter to deter rodents that are on the
hunt for nesting spots. Prune overhanging tree branches away from
the home’s rooline. Keep vines, bushes and ground covers neatly
trimmed and away from the house if possible, to remove hiding areas
around the exterior. Regularly checking windows, screens, door
seals, plumbing, and pipe entries for potential entryways that could
be sealed or excluded.
House Flies
We are all too familiar with this common pest. These household
disturbances are widespread because of their remarkable ability to
reproduce quickly and in large quantities.
House lies are premier carriers of infectious diseases, given their
capability to transfer more than 100 pathogens, including malaria,
salmonella, and tuberculosis. Not to mention they defecate regularly and
instantly contaminate food and surfaces by spreading disease-ridden
organisms that are picked up on their bodies and through their saliva.
Educate your customers on how to prevent these tiny pests from
becoming health burdens. Ensuring doors, windows, and vents are
kept closed as much as possible. Looking for properly itted screens
and repairing any rips or tears in those screens that are found. An
essential part of ly management is also keeping pet droppings
picked up and disposed of regularly and keeping trash picked up and
in closed receptacles, away from the house, if possible.
For our health’s sake, and that of our customers and their families, we owe it
to everyone to take all the necessary steps to identify the pests accurately, keep
ourselves and our customers educated, providing unsurpassed quality service
and “TRULY Living the Yellow Standard.”
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