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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

Rats. They're a defining feature of life in New York City, rustling in trash bags,

scurrying along the subway tracks, even becoming famous for occasionally eating pizza.

But these urban vermin may be less of a threat to human health than their smaller, cuter cousins,

the city's mice.

They're in your buildings, and they get into your kitchen cupboards, and they get behind

refrigerators. And so they have a real potential to contaminate the environment that you

actually live in. Simon Williams is a microbiologist at Columbia University and the University

of Western Australia. He and his colleagues trapped more

than 400 mice in apartment-building basements in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

They took swabs of the mice's rear ends, gathered feces from the traps, and subjected both to

a battery of genetic tests. The mice harbored an array of disease-causing bacteria, like Shigella,

claustridium difficile, samanella. They also carried a suite of antibiotic resistance genes,

and viruses associated with insects, dogs, chickens, and pigs. Mice from a Chelsea apartment

building had the most pig virus. Perhaps the scientists say because they live near the meat

packing district, which used to have pork processing facilities before fashionable nightclubs took

over. The details are in the journal M-Bio. The mere fact that these microbes can be found in poop,

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