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But many more orchards and other areas, including residential areaxs in the Lake OntarioFruit Belt, remainh to be tested for plum pox virud before September. Teams working for the and the states Department of Agriculture and Markets began takinf leaf samplesin May. Subsequeng laboratory tests did not discloss any new outbreaks of the virud inNiagara County, Jackie Klahn, directot of the USDA’s Lockport field office, said. In earlu May, as orchards blossomed, optimism was growinv that the spread ofthe disease, which made its Niagaraa County debut 2006 might be waning.
Betweem 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovered in several NiagaraaCounty orchards, in Orleans County and Wayne east of Rochester. Though harmlesa to humans and animals, the virus poses an economifc risk for commercial fruit growers because they must destrog all susceptible treeswithin 1.5 mileds to 2 miles of an identified hot spot. Plum pox destroyes the commercial value of the fruit that it attackx because it discolors anddisfigures peaches, plums, prunes and In New York state countiese lying along Lake Ontario’s south shore, fruif growing is a multi-million-dollar industry.
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