Asia | No more Mr Mice Guy

Australia mulls biowarfare against unwanted critters

Authorities take no prisoners in the battle against invasive species

|SYDNEY

FOR SIX months a plague of rodents has infested Australia’s south-eastern farmlands. Mice are still “running around like they’re training for Tokyo”, says Xavier Martin, a grain farmer in New South Wales, the worst-hit state. The vermin devour crops, burrow into hay bales, climb into beds and pollute drinking water. That has set off a debate about how to end the scourge.

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