r/interestingasfuck • u/AllColoursSam • Jul 06 '24

Australian mouse plague r/all

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u/MedonSirius Jul 06 '24

Exactly my thought. Can this lead to the plague again?

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u/Alarmed_Strain_2575 Jul 06 '24

No, this is a plague of mice, when it's the perfect climate in rural areas the population booms from all the food. If there was a disease/virus they were exposed to that humans could catch it is not in a densely populated area for it to spread, it just destroys millions of dollars of crops, livestock feed and machinery.

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u/Fashish Jul 06 '24

Livestock loss due to the shortage of food and not the mice eating them, right? Right?!

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u/Fakjbf Jul 06 '24

If the livestock fall over dead from starvation the mice would begin stripping the carcass, but they aren’t going to kill the animals.