Get ready for the banana pandemic to destroy your favorite fruit

A extremely - transmittable form of fungus sometimes called Panama disease has devastated crops in Asia , and has now been found in Mozambique . It sound like a joke , but this pandemic is deucedly serious and could feign the world ’s fruit supply .

Earlier this month , the scientific journal Nature publish an clause about Mozambique ’s effortsto incorporate the blight pandemic byquarantining fields where it has been find , hop that it wo n’t spread . The country needs more funds to prevent the bed cover of Panama disease . Unchecked , this banana pandemic could potentially cut off the global supply of one of the Earth ’s most popular fruit , a sound reference of minerals that ’s used in many cuisine .

There have been previous banana pandemics from a exchangeable kind of fungus , and those disease were only break when Farmer change by reversal to a raw strain of banana tree that was not vulnerable to the fungus . Now , unfortunately , the fungus has mutated enough to that it can sham these new banana tree . Even more unfortunately , this banana strain is used all over the humanity , which pull in it easy for Panama to spread .