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Olive killer disease arrives on Mallorca (BBC)
By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News
A disease that poses a "very serious threat" to the EU's olive industry has been recorded on the Spanish island of Mallorca for the first time.
Island officials said a movement ban covering 15,000 hectares had been imposed and measures had been taken to "contain and eradicate its spread".
Experts describe Xylella fastidiosa as one of the "most dangerous pathogens worldwide".
It was first recorded in the EU in 2013, and has since spread westwards.
'Ebola of olives'
Spanish newspaper El Mundo dubbed the bacterium the "Ebola of olive trees".
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38050625
