SIGN of the TIMES:Australia orders probe into mouse plague
Australia ordered an investigation into a nursing home where elderly and bed-ridden residents were gnawed by a swarming plague of mice.An 89-year-old war veteran was found bleeding from bites to his ears, neck, head and hands after being attacked by the mice as he lay in bed at the facility in the northeastern state of Queensland.The old man was so distressed that doctors had to sedate him with morphine, said Ray Hopper, the local member of parliament....