Citrus canker, a highly contagious bacterial plant disease, has reappeared in Louisiana. The disease, which had not been seen in the state since 1940, was detected in Orleans Parish in the summer of 2013. Over the past three years it has been confirmed in seven South Louisiana Parishes, including Jefferson, Orleans, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, and more recently St. James [...]
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