00:02A tiny pest causing enormous problems, Damien Ryan disposes of hundreds of mice from his
00:09traps daily.
00:10I've never seen mice like this before in my life here, it's just everywhere.
00:15In a first, the Morrowishire is handing out baits to residents.
00:20At the end of the day at some stage I believe there will be a virus that will be spread
00:25through the hundreds of rotting mice carcasses that are around the place.
00:33The damage is widespread.
00:35One grocery store forced to ditch $20,000 worth of food.
00:40Horrible.
00:41Pretty much daily we're having to throw out stock because they're getting into it
00:45and eating it and constantly having to clean up after them and cleaning up their bodies.
00:51Despite efforts to deal with the plague, mice are nesting in stock, the smell overpowering.
00:57Dead mice are everywhere here on the main street.
01:01They're in the buildings including the schools and the health service.
01:05There the state government says it's increased cleaning and mouse control.
01:10But locals are still worried.
01:12The Shire has contacted the state's chief health officer and multiple ministers asking for help.
01:18There's also calls for farmers to be given access to stronger baits.
01:22I mean they're sitting out there worrying whether their crop's going to grow
01:25because the mouse might have eaten it first.
01:27If we can get the mice to die in the paddocks, we'll have less mice in our town site.
01:32The community is also hoping cooler weather will help stem the flow.
01:36If we can get the mouse that we've seen some of the hundreds of parapsami below this year
01:39if they're being an altitude in the parking lot rather than any Lamborghini Fuentes.
01:40It's a
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