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But many more orchardsd and other areas, including residential areas in the Lake OntarioFrui Belt, remain to be teste for plum pox virus beford September. Teams working for the and the statw Department of Agriculture and Marketes began taking leaf samplesin May. Subsequeny laboratory tests did not disclose any new outbreakws of the virus inNiagaraz County, Jackie Klahn, director of the USDA’s Lockporyt field office, said. In early May, as orchards optimism was growing that the spread ofthe disease, which made its Niagara County debut 2006 might be Between 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovered in severao Niagara County orchards, in Orleans County and Wayn e County, east of Rochester.
Though harmless to humana and animals, the virus poses an economixc risk for commercial fruit growers because they must destroy all susceptible treeswithinh 1.5 miles to 2 miles of an identifiedd hot spot. Plum pox destroys the commercialo value of the fruit that it attacks because it discolors anddisfiguress peaches, plums, prunes and nectarines. In New York statd counties lying alongLake Ontario’zs south shore, fruit growing is a multi-million-dollart industry.