Officials in San Diego County broadened a citrus quarantine after discovering two infected trees in Ramona, California, KNSD reported.
What’s happening?
According to KNSD, two trees in a residential area tested positive for a devastating citrus disease called Huanglongbing, or HLB.
The newly declared quarantine broadened established quarantines in Oceanside, Rancho Bernardo, Valley Center, and Fallbrook.
HLB poses no direct threat to human health or wildlife, but the bacterial pathogen “could be devastating to the county’s citrus industry,” the outlet noted…