Giant Mice Plague Forces Australia To Turn To Banned Poison
New South Wales government to release A$50 million ($39 million) in funding to tackle the infestation it calls an economic and public health crisis.
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Giant Mice Plague Forces Australia To Turn To Banned Poison
Australia is looking to deploy normally outlawed high-grade poison to fight millions of mice, as farmers struggle to protect their crops from the worst rodent invasion in decades. Stomach-churning footage on social media showed carpets of mice scurrying across barn floors, crowded around machinery, and entering thick grain silos made of steel. There’s even been reports of farmers’ feet being bitten while they sleep. A viral video showed a giant vacuum sucking up the mice from storage containers, but methods to treat the intrusion have so far offered little respite for farmers. The crisis has prompted the New South Wales government to release A$50 million ($39 million) in funding to tackle the infestation it calls an economic and public health crisis. The state is asking the federal government for approval to use Bromadiolone, a potent pesticide that’s normally banned in the country. “It’s actually the strongest mouse poison we can get anywhere on the face of the earth that actually will k…
