One restaurant had rodent droppings on a bag of rice, another had cockroaches on the wheels of its equipment and another continued to struggle with a vermin infestation through multiple inspections.

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cotton rats, rice rats and the white-footed mouse. The virus is typically transmitted to humans when they are bitten or come into contact with urine, droppings and saliva of an infected rodent.