Psycho seagulls and super rats team up to spread disease in Birmingham trash mountains

The psycho seagulls and super rats feeding off Birmingham's giant mountains of rubbish may be spreading disease as they team up in a city assault.

The Midlands city has been swamped with rubbish since binmen went on an all-out strike on March 11.

There is no end in sight for the growing refuse sack mounds after dustmen "overwhelmingly" rejected a strike-ending deal with Birmingham City Council on Tuesday.

With the trash building for more than five weeks, the rats and seagulls feasting on the rubbish have become supersized.

But the dangers these vermin pose to humans is not limited to physical threats, they are also known to spread disease through urine and bacteria.

The most dangerous infection rats spread to humans is Weil's disease, which can be fatal in extreme cases.

(Rats spread a number of diseases through their urine and faeces. Image: Getty Images)

The infection is spread in rat's urine and a person is usually infected when they swim in contaminated water with a cut or graze on the skin. Outbreaks are commonly recorded alongside major flooding.

Another potentially fatal disease is rat bite fever and – as its name suggests – is a bacterial infection spread when a rodent breaks a human's skin with their teeth.

Both of these infections are easily treated but can be fatal if they are not dealt with.

(Seagulls are have been feasting on Birmingham's giant rubbish mountains (stock).Image: Getty Images)

The most stomach-churning infection spread by rats is Seoul hantavirus because of how it is spread – by inhaling fine sprays of rat urine and faeces. It was famously found to be what killed Gene Hackman's wife Betsy.

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Seagulls also pose a risk of bacterial infection as they are known to pick up Salmonella and Campylobacter from waste dumps and then pass that infection onto humans.

(The refuse sack mounds have been building since March 11(Image: Joseph Walshe / SWNS)

(Brummies have complained about 'rats the size of cats'(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

(Rats and seagulls can spread disease. Image: Joseph Walshe / SWNS)

More than 21,000 tons of uncollected rubbish now line the streets - triggering a super rat invasion.

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Photo Credit- Joseph Walshe/SWNS, Getty Images