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U.S. crops wiped out as Irish famine blight becomes epidemic
August 10, 09

The destructive fungal disease – the same one that caused the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s – that first sprung up in plants in Rhode Island and New York has spread even further in the northeast to Massachusetts farms.
Irish famine blight fungus hits Rhode Island crops
July 03, 09

The same virus that caused the potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s that decimated the population and drove thousands to these shores has been found in potato and tomato crops in Rhode Island.

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