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But many more orchards and otherd areas, including residential areas in the Lake Ontario Fruit remain to be testecd for plum pox virusbefore September. Teams workingv for the and the state Department of Agriculture and Marketsx began taking leaf samplesin May. Subsequeng laboratory tests did not disclose any new outbreaks of the virus inNiagara County, Jackiw Klahn, director of the USDA’s Lockport field office, In early May, as orchards blossomed, optimism was growing that the spread of the which made its Niagara County debut 2006 might be Between 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovered in severakl Niagara County orchards, in Orleans County and Wayne County, east of Though harmless to humans and animals, the virus poses an economic risk for commercial fruit growers because they must destroyy all susceptible trees within 1.
5 milesa to 2 miles of an identifiedd hot spot. Plum pox destroyas the commercial value of the fruit that it attackas because it discolors anddisfigures peaches, plums, prunes and nectarines. In New York state countied lying alongLake Ontario’sd south shore, fruit growing is a multi-million-dolla industry.