Miraculous photo taken with SX-70 Polaroid camera by Bernie Beyer of Great Neck, N.Y. at the Vigil of March 25,1978, which shows a rat about to be caught in a noose. The message in symbolism was a secret one for Veronica alone. However, Heaven usually uses the rat as a symbol for those members of the clergy who go about like rodents burrowing into the God-given foundation of the Church, seeking to re-structure it according to their own human ideas.

Also, note that there is a "C" at the mouth of the rat and a "P" over the body of the rat for Coughing Rat Plague.  It also causes an intestinal flu and diarrhea.  The intestines show up in the picture and the rat looks as if it is defecating.

Children’s Plague and the Coughing Rat Plague
Jesus - Our Lady told you several years ago that there would be great floods, and there were great floods; that there would be a great heat, and that will come soon; and after that there will be a great plague.”

Slight plague of rats in eastern area 
"I, also, must tell you, My child, to tell the world of the coming second part of the plague:  the first you must remain secret with for awhile, My child.  I will tell you there will be a slight plague of rats.  Do not be affrighted, My child, this plague will be kept within only the eastern area.” (6-18-83)

Initially everyone thought the plague would be in the eastern area of the United States.  But the plague came out of the eastern part of the world.  The plague will come out of the hantavirus family of viruses.  The Chinese trade ships spread the hantavirus to the whole world.

Flu-Like symptoms
The fever comes first.  Then comes fatigue, backache, and sore muscles.  Days later, the headache, dizziness, nausea and chills, diarrhea, just like the flu.  Then comes coughing, and soon a persistent shortness of breath.  In 24 hours or less, you can hardly breathe.  You’re drowning in your own fluids.

And like a drowning person, your mortal terror is extreme.  Unable to absorb oxygen, you rapidly go to into shock.  Your blood pressure plummets and finally your exhausted heart stalls and ceases pounding.  You have just become a victim of the deadly hantavirus family of viruses.

The plague is spread by voles, deer mouse which has a white underside and feet, cotton rat, marsh rice rat, Norway rat, or the common or black rat.

The hantavirus is active in the spring and the fall when the temperature is between 45 and 72 degrees.

Recommendations to stop hantavirus
The hantavirus family of viruses is carried in the urine and feces of rodents.  A 10% bleach solution can be used to clean up droppings and kill the virus.  Avoid all contact with dead rodents.  Risky places include barns, cabins, abandoned housed, tool sheds, privies, attics, basements, garages, or any place rodents can make their homes.  Properly dispose of all garbage.  Plug holes in walls with wire, cement, or steel wool.  Set traps and use an effective rodenticide.  Keep rodents nesting sites at least 100 feet from your house. 

An excellent web site by the Center of Disease Control titled; “All about Hantavirus” is at www.cdc.gov/ ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/index.htm   Take a look at it for more information.

There an excellent article in the February 2000, issue of American Survival Guide magazine titled "Hantavirus", on page 74.

Always wear your sacramentals and have crucifixes on all of the outside doors of your home for protection by Heaven.