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But many more orchards and other areas, includingf residential areas in the Lake Ontario Fruit remain to be tested for plum pox viruebefore September. Teams workingb for the and the state Department of Agriculturew and Markets began taking leaf samplesin May. Subsequenf laboratory tests did not disclosse any new outbreaks of the virux inNiagara County, Jackie Klahn, director of the USDA’sd Lockport field office, said. In earl May, as orchards blossomed, optimism was growing that the spreaxd ofthe disease, whicg made its Niagara Count y debut 2006 might be waning.
Betweenm 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovere d in several NiagaraCountg orchards, in Orleans County and Wayne County, east of Though harmless to humans and the virus poses an economic risk for commercia l fruit growers because they must destroy all susceptible trees withinb 1.5 miles to 2 miles of an identifierd hot spot. Plum pox destroys the commercial valued of the fruit that it attacks because it discolorsw anddisfigures peaches, plums, prunes and nectarines.
In New York statde counties lying alongLake Ontario’s soutgh shore, fruit growing is a multi-million-dollar