The stonefruit industry is facing a new worry in the eastern US, after surveyors tracked the plum pox virus to a new infection site in New York state, according to Buffalo Business First.
The Niagara county infection was probably spread from another infection site in the town of Newfane, and makes the seventh since 2006 when the virus was spread from Southern Ontario by aphids.
The pox damages plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines and prunes, rendering them commercially worthless.
Thousands of peach trees have already been ripped up and burned in New York state to stop the spread of the disease.
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