Broken Apple Pro Mouse

My 10 year old black Apple Pro Mouse is blinking 4 times and then ceasing to work. Has it finally bitten the dust? Where can I get an equivalent replacement?

More console messages (different from last time, this time I used USB Prober):
37.255[1]
IOUSBCompositeDriver[0x4732580](Apple Optical USB Mouse) GetFullConfigDescriptor(0) returned NULL

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