date:Mar 22, 2019
Advocates from environmental and public health groups have delivered a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency asking them to delay a proposal to spray antibiotic on citrus fields to treat a pathogen that causes citrus greening disease, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. Advocates think that this action could make bacterial antibiotic resistance worse.
Citrus greening is a bacterial disease. Florida citrus trees are being destroyed by this pathogen and have been for more