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*Mice, like [[rat]]s, can be a serious [[agriculture|agricultural]] pest, damaging growing crops and eating stored grain.
 
*Mice, like [[rat]]s, can be a serious [[agriculture|agricultural]] pest, damaging growing crops and eating stored grain.
*Again, mice are often blamed as a [[disease vector]] for certain diseases including [[bubonic plague]] better attributed to [[rats]].{{fact}}
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*Again, mice are often blamed as a [[disease vector]] for certain diseases including [[bubonic plague]] better attributed to [[rats]], or rather the fleas borne by certain species of rat.
 
*The laboratory mouse is widely used as an experimental organism in biomedical research. There are many specialised breeds, such as the nude mouse, a hairless [[mutant]] strain used in [[cancer]] research and the Onken mouse, a mouse bred to have cancerous cells from birth.  
 
*The laboratory mouse is widely used as an experimental organism in biomedical research. There are many specialised breeds, such as the nude mouse, a hairless [[mutant]] strain used in [[cancer]] research and the Onken mouse, a mouse bred to have cancerous cells from birth.  
 
*Mice are commonly kept as pets, and are also bred as food items for other, carnivorous pet animals.
 
*Mice are commonly kept as pets, and are also bred as food items for other, carnivorous pet animals.
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