Undiagnosed -- Samoa
The American Samoa Department of Agriculture has suspended importing of all taro and taro shoots from Samoa. The director, Filifaatali Mike Fuiava, said that he received information of an unknown virus breakout in Samoa affecting taro crops in the islands of Upolu and Savai'i. The disease is such that the taro shoot looks mature but when uprooted, the taro tuber itself has rotted away.
He said he had to take every precautionary measure to make sure this unknown virus would not enter
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