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GUANGZHOU, China, July 15 (UPI) -- Nutritious but potentially illness-inducing field mice are finding their way onto restaurant dinner plates in parts of China.
"The trucks carrying mice arrive at 4 a.m. and all the goods can be sold out before 7 a.m.," a mouse broker said of the delicacy.
Shipments of mice are being delivered daily from Hunan Province to restaurants in Fanyu, Zhaoqing, Dongguan and Nanhai in Guangdong Province, the broker said.
The shipments increased from just one delivery a week last year after flooding in central China forced an estimated 2 billion field mice from their holes near Dongting Lake, China Daily reported.
Nutritious mouse meat is packed with protein and minerals but could carry infectious diseases, warned health authorities in Guangzhou, where mouse meat was officially banned in 2003.
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