Mice biting hospital patients, threatening crops as they ravage farms

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Three hospital patients are bitten and a patient diagnosed with a rare viral rodent-borne infectious disease as the pests run out of control across much of the state.

Three hospital patients in regional New South Wales have been bitten by mice as the horror rodent plague escalates.Health expert is "surprised" more people haven't contracted a rare rodent-borne infectious diseaseThey fear mice will destroy the winter crops and stored hay"Reports of residents or patients receiving minor bites have been made … and appropriate treatment has been provided," said a NSW Health spokesperson.

Pest populations have drastically increased and so have reports of them ruining crops, destroying stored hay and invading silos, sheds and homes.New South Wales Farmers' Association president James Jackson said urgent action was needed by the state government to control the plague. He said the permit would give farmers permission to use the lethal rodenticide known as zinc phosphide to treat their seed.

 

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Lived in the midst of a mouse plague in a SA town called Minnipa in the 1992/3....it was biblical..they'd run over you in bed and bite your hair and eyebrows as you tried to sleep.. Horrible experience. Didn't matter how much poison and traps you used..it didn't stop them

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