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Scot Nelson
09-28-2009, 12:44 PM
Research published in Environmental Microbiology indicates that banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) can survive passage the human digestive system - the virus was found in “reclaimed water” (sewage water than is reclaimed for crop irrigation) in Florida.

A story about this was published online at physorg.com, “Reclaimed Riddle”: Reclaimed Riddle (http://www.physorg.com/news173351209.html)

Although this is interesting, the physorg.com article did not mention that BBTV is not water-transmissible to banana plants. Therefore, BBTV in irrigation water poses no known disease risk to agriculture.

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damaclese
09-28-2009, 01:31 PM
thanks for sharing that Scot what are they trying to panic the agro-culture (play on words LOL) i live in the perfict place not to have any BBTV
Nevada arnt you HA People jelous now heheheh
Keep up the good work
Paul

LilRaverBoi
09-28-2009, 02:10 PM
Wow...that sucks! Somehow I don't think they regularly test water for the presence of BBTV before using it for irrigation (and I hope this water is processed before being used...cause damn...E. coli, etc etc). It really makes ya wonder how many other diseases make it through like this. I do know that most municipal drinking water contains levels of hormones and many pharmaceutical agents. Water companies have very stringent testing processes for a lot of different chemicals, but there are a LOT of things for which the government has not made legal 'level' for.....and these things are not tested for at all under normal processing. Scary, huh!?

Jack Daw
09-28-2009, 02:23 PM
That's some bad news. BBTV seems to be a rather indestructible bastard. Hope your fight will be succesful.