La. Reports First Case of Soybean Rust
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BATON ROUGE, La. Nov 10, 2004 - The first US cases of the fungus soybean rust, which hinders plant growth and drastically cuts crop production, were found at two research sites in Louisiana, officials said Wednesday.
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USDA&#39;s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) this morning announced it has confirmed a detection of soybean rust from two test plots at Louisiana State University near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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The first appearance in San Francisco of the killer botanical disease called sudden oak death was confirmed Thursday after two coast live oaks growing in Golden Gate Park&#39;s AIDS Memorial Grove were found to be infected, making San Francisco the 14th
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David Martz, like many other area farmers, just sighed upon hearing the news that Asian soybean rust had been discovered in Louisiana.
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GUELPH -- The fate of Ontario&#39;s soybean crop is quite literally at the whim of the wind. The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed last week that Asian soybean rust is present in soybean crops
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The West Nile virus has surfaced for the first time in Napa County, a discovery confirmed Friday by state experts after evaluating a dead crow sent to them by health officials.
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Florida has found the highly contagious soybean rust fungus in one of its soybean fields on Wednesday, becoming the third infected US state in a week, state officials said.
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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Soybean rust, a disease that has devastated soybean fields in Brazil and Argentina, has been found in two test plots at Louisiana State University near Baton Rouge.
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By JOE KILLIAN  GREENSBORO -- Results of the first round of tests at Barber Park were released Tuesday, showing high levels of toxins in the soil and groundwater but low levels of heavy metals.
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NEW YORK  - Several cases of food poisoning  that occurred in Pennsylvania earlier this year represent the  first time infection with the parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis  (cyclosporiasis) has been associated with snow peas, according  to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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United States authorities have confirmed they&#39;ve found a new legume disease for the first time. Asian soybean rust has been confirmed in two plots at a research station in Louisiana.
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Japan confirmed Friday its first case of  the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man  believed to have contracted the fatal brain-wasting illness  from eating infected beef in Britain.
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Agriculture officials are testing plant samples from three Louisiana parishes and one Mississippi county for the fungus soybean rust, which damages crop production and forces farmers to use costly fungicide treatments.
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After decades of spreading the fungus across the globe, the wind was expected to bring soybean rust to the United States to threaten crop production and carry a hefty
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Investigators searched nine California farms for evidence of spinach-borne E. coli yesterday, going into the fields for the first time, as the number of confirmed illnesses rose by 17 to  131.
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An E. coli outbreak that has sickened 59 people in the Northeast is prompting concern among West Coast farmers after officials announced that scallions suspected as carriers of the bacteria came from a Southern California farm.