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‘No one ever forgets living through a mouse plague’: the dystopia facing Australian rural communities, explained by an expert – The Conversation AU

Imagine constantly living with mice. When you go to sleep they run across your bed, the stench of dead mice fills the street. As an expert on mouse outbreaks, let’s…

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Imagine constantly living with mice. Every time you open a cupboard to get linen, clothes or food, mice have been or are still there. When you go to sleep they run across your bed and, in the morning, your first job is to empty traps filled with dead mice. And the stench of dead mice fill the streets.
Even the cats and dogs get sick of mice and stop chasing them.
This is the dystopian reality for many towns as, over recent months, mouse numbers in northern NSW and southern Queensland have risen…

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