2023
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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An outbreak of measles
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A plague of mice
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A plague of locusts
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The NSW Government provided a mouse control rebate of up to $500 to eligible households and up to $1, 000 to eligible small businesses to help them combat the 2021 mouse plague in rural and regional NSW.
Detailed explanation-2: -The plague devastated crops in the state, damaged equipment and took a heavy mental toll. A combination of natural phenomena seems to have extinguished the threat, clean harvesting and early baiting are key ways to keep the numbers down.
Detailed explanation-3: -It has been just over a year since numbers of the pesky rodent started waning, and the widespread flooding of 2022 appears to have stopped them in their tracks. “What we think is happening is adult mice are surviving and getting out of the water, moving to higher country, ” CSIRO research officer Steve Henry said.
Detailed explanation-4: -CSIRO mouse researcher Steve Henry says farmers have reported increased mice numbers in northern NSW, central Queensland, north-west Victoria and South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. But the wheat belt of Western Australia has been worst hit. “There are widespread high numbers [there].