Byssinosis 81 byssinosis-related fatalities reported in the United States between 1990 and 1999, 48% included an occupation in the yarn, thread, and fabric industry on the victim's death certificate. This disease often occurred in the times of the industrial revolution. Most commonly young girls working in mills or other textile factories would be afflicted with this disease. In the United States, from 1996 to 2005, North Carolina accounted for about 37% of all deaths caused by byssinosis, with 31, followed by South Carolina (8) and Georgia (7). The term "brown lung" is a misnomer, as the lungs of affected individuals are
Citrus stubborn disease orchard. In addition, it is important to closely monitor the weeds in young orchards to ensure that they are not susceptible to "Spiroplasma citri", and if susceptible ones appear, to remove them as soon as possible"." Citrus stubborn disease The Citrus stubborn disease is a plant disease affecting species in the genus "Citrus". "Spiroplasma citri", a Mollicute bacterium species, is the causative agent of the disease. It is present in the phloem of the affected plant and transmitted by several leafhoppers including "Circulifer tenellus" (beet leafhopper) and "Scaphytopius nitridus" in citrus-growing regions of California and Arizona and "Circulifer haematoceps" in