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Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit Factsheet on Plum Pox Potyvirus:
www.cfia-acia.agr.ca/english/ppc/science/
phra/plumpox/plumpox-fs.html

A collection of resources, information, links, and images from West Virginia University's Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Education Center:
www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/

And specifically for plum pox:
www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/disease_descriptions/
ppvresources.html

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Plum Pox Update:
www.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Agriculture/plum_pox/

Penn State Plum Pox site: includes a collection of images,.virtual seminar videos, and a plum pox fact sheet.
http://sharka.cas.psu.edu/

USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service information on Plum Pox:
www.aphis.usda.gov

The UN Food and Agriculture Database:
http://pppis.fao.org

 

For articles published on the PPV in Pennsylvannia search the following archives:

www.gburgtimes.com/archives

Search using the phrase plum pox virus, and scroll through the on-line news (about 17 articles published from Oct 1999-Jan 2000 on every aspect of the Pennsylvania situation)

Science News Online article, "First plum pox turns up in North America"
www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/11_20_99/fob3.htm


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