Sydney, Australia – Farmers and their families are being woken up by close encounters with rodents as the country struggles to get its pest problem under control.

As the ongoing rodent plague continues to dominate Australia, people are coming into uncomfortably close physical contact with mice.

One farmer's wife even recounted being woken up to a rodent chewing on her eyeball, according to the Sun. The woman was transported to a local hospital for immediate medical attention, and she's not the only one who's gotten up close and personal with a mouse.

A farmer named Mick Harris from Narromine, Australia had a similar wake-up call, as he told the Sun: "I felt a tickly, furry sensation as it crawled from behind my ear across my cheek."

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That night, Harris said he was unable to sleep until he caught the mouse in a trap under his bed. Several weeks prior, Harris' wife was awoken by a mouse nibbling on her ring finger. Given that the family has two young kids, Harris' concern is that when they wake up in the middle of the night crying, it's because a mouse has paid them a visit.

Over the last month, the mice plague has negatively affected people's livelihoods and even public safety. With mice cutting through electrical wires–causing houses to burn down–ravaging cars by eating them from the inside out, and even infiltrating an Australian prison, it's become a matter of public health and safety.

As close encounters pile on top of the damage caused by hundreds of thousands of mice across the country, it doesn't seem like the rodent epidemic in Australia will be over any time soon.