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
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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Scot
