Chinese floods cause mass invasion of mice

[eppur_se_muova]

China rodents spark disease fears (BBC)

Severe flooding in central China has brought a mass invasion of mice, raising fears of outbreaks of disease.

The floods forced about two billion mice from islands in Dongting Lake in Hunan province, local officials said.
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The rodent rampage began on 23 June, when the flooded Yangtze River raised water levels in Dongting Lake, forcing the mice from their holes on islands in the lake, China's state-run news agency Xinhua said on Monday.
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Residents are also taking matters into their own hands, killing more than 2.3m of the rodents using clubs, shovels and poison, Xinhua said.

But in the town of Lujiao, at least 1000 cats have died after eating mice that had been killed with poison.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6292698.stm

Holy crap -- overrun by mice?!? What a bizarre affliction. First people are battling floods, then they lose their crops to mice. Nature really seems to have something against the Chinese peasants.

[LiberalEsto]

1. Send the badgers after them!

Giant badgers, snakes, zillions of mice....and a black bear wandering around Gaithersburg, Maryland.

What's next?

:scared:

[marmar]

3. Day of the Animals....

They've had enough of our bullshit. :scared:

[kurth]

2. Ahhhh.... Chicken nuggets - coming soon to a grocery store near you

:(

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Oh, thank you for that thought!

x(
You know, if they were added to cat food ... would that be so bad?

[Javaman]

5. Okay, everyone tuck their pants into their socks. nt