“…Rodents carry Yersinia pestis ( Eaton et al., 2023 ), Hantaviruses (HanVs) ( Tang et al., 2023 ), and Leptospira ( Kavela et al., 2023 ), which cause plague, hemorrhagic fever, and leptospirosis, respectively. Moreover, several important zoonotic viruses carried by rodents are members of the Hantaviridae ( Wu et al., 2018a ), Flaviviridae ( Smith et al., 2016 ), Arenaviridae ( Wood et al., 2021 ), Reoviridae , Picornaviridae , and Togaviridae ( Liu and Zhang, 2023 ). Many of these family viruses include multiple agents associated with acute gastroenteritis or febrile illnesses that can cause severe diseases in humans.…”