Australia is in trouble with a rat infestation. Faced with a massive invasion, the government is desperate.
In the states of New South Wales and Queensland, rats have been affecting life for months. To find solutions to rodents that harm crops, local farmers are asking the government for an emergency action plan.
While a definite solution to the mouse infestation has not been found yet, the latest news revealed the importance of the situation.
Farmer Mick Harris and his wife, living in Narromine, about 400 kilometers from Sydney, in Australia, where the coronavirus is under control with vaccination and pandemic measures, woke up to a nightmare.
According to the news in the British newspaper The Sun, the woman woke up realizing that the mouse was chewing her eye. Speaking to the newspaper, Harris said, “We have two children. My wife was crying when she woke up because a mouse was in our children’s bed.”
While the country press announced the events to their readers with the headlines of ‘rat plague’, experts describe the month-long rat infestation as ‘the worst of the last 30 years.
It is stated that while the supermarkets in the region have to store food in closed containers due to the mouse infestation, drinking water is also under the threat of contamination.
Experts are considering the possibility of the mouse infestation may be a result of the recent heavy rains. Normally average mice can give birth to up to 500 offspring per season. The worst rat infestation on record in the country occurred in 1993.
The invasion that year caused nearly $100 million in damage.
