Micepocalypse: Australia orders banned poison from India to counter infestation of ‘plague proportions’

Faced with a mice infestation of unprecedented proportions in its eastern states, Australia has decided to import a banned poison, Bromadiolone, from India.

Australia has ordered a banned poison from India to counter an infestation of mice that has set alarm bells ringing. Government officials have described the scale of this threat to the country's eastern states as "absolutely unprecedented". The government in New South Wales (NSW), Australia's most populous state, has now decided to import 5,000 litres of Bromadiolone from India. A strong rodenticide, Bromadiolone, is banned in Australia. The country's federal regulator is yet to approve its emergency use to counter this infestation. New South Wales Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall said this month that farmers in the state's agricultural plains are looking at an "absolute economic and social crisis" if the number of mice, which are in "plague proportions", is not reduced by spring.