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‘Green menace’ strikes California citrus

(Nature) A disease that has devastated the citrus industries in Florida, China, Brazil and elsewhere now threatens California’s US$2-billion-a-year crop. Last month, a lemon-pomelo hybrid tree in a Los Angeles-area yard tested positive for huanglongbing, or citrus greening, according to the Los Angeles Times. The bacterial disease is spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. California  Read More »

H5N1 bird flu reported in NW China

(China Daily) BEIJING – China’s Northwestern Ningxia Hui autonomous region has reported an outbreak of the highly epidemic H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced Wednesday. More than 23,000 chickens at several farms in a village of Touying town in the city of Guyuan in Ningxia showed symptoms of suspected  Read More »

California Fights Citrus-Killing Bacteria

(Food Safety News) There’s no threat to human health in a growing quarantine in Southern California, but an annual $2 billion worth of citrus fruits are at risk in a war with a tiny insect and the bacteria its spreads. Earlier this month, the state of California added 93-square miles in the Hacienda Heights area  Read More »

Penniless Bulgaria to Give Up Building Turkish Border FMD Fence

(Novinite.com) Bulgaria’s government will reverse its decision to build a fence along its border with Turkey, a measure which was supposed to tackle the infiltration of foot-and-mouth disease-infected animals. This has been announced Tuesday night by the press service of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers, ahead of the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet on  Read More »

Govt takes preventive steps against ‘foot and mouth disease’

(Financial Express Bangladesh) The government has, for the first time, decided to introduce ‘special zoning system’ to fight ‘foot and mouth disease’ (FMD) in cows and help boost the country’s export of beef, officials told the FE. The country’s export promotion office along with other relevant government agencies took a decision to this effect as  Read More »

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