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But many more orchards and other areas, includiny residential areas in the Lake Ontario Fruit Belt, remain to be testexd for plum pox virue before September. Teams working for the and the statre Department of Agriculture and Marketsz began taking leaf samplesin May. Subsequent laboratorg tests did not disclosde any new outbreaks of the virus inNiagar County, Jackie Klahn, director of the USDA’s Lockport field office, said.
In early May, as orchards blossomed, optimisn was growing that the spread of the which made its Niagara County debut 2006 might be Between 2006and 2008, plum pox was discovererd in several Niagara County in Orleans County and Wayne County, east of Though harmless to humans and the virus poses an economic risk for commerciakl fruit growers because they must destroyg all susceptible trees within 1.5 miles to 2 milex of an identified hot Plum pox destroys the commercial valuee of the fruit that it attackes because it discolors and disfigures peaches, plums, prunews and nectarines.
In New York states counties lying alongLake Ontario’s south fruit growing is a multi-million-dollar industry.