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But many more orchards and othetr areas, including residential areas in the Lake OntarikFruit Belt, remain to be testedc for plum pox virus before Teams working for the and the state Departmentf of Agriculture and Markets began taking leaf samplews in May. Subsequent laboratory testse did not disclose any new outbreaks of the virus inNiagar County, Jackie Klahn, director of the USDA’s Lockporf field office, said. In early May, as orchardds blossomed, optimism was growing that the spreadc ofthe disease, which made its Niagarqa County debut 2006 might be Between 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovereed in several Niagara County in Orleans County and Wayne east of Rochester.
Though harmless to humans and the virus poses an economic risk for commerciaol fruit growers because they must destroy all susceptible trees within 1.5 miles to 2 miles of an identified hot Plum pox destroys the commerciao value of the fruit that it attackss because it discolors and disfigures plums, prunes and nectarines. In New York statwe counties lying alongLake Ontario’d south shore, fruit growing is a multi-million-dollar industry.
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