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Default Outbreak of Fungus Threatens Tomato Crop



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/ny...s.html?_r=1&em



By JULIA MOSKIN
Published: July 17, 2009
A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has
quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the
mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may determine
whether the outbreak abates or whether tomato crops are ruined,
according to federal and state agriculture officials.
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