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What's Killing Off The World's Banana Crop?

Flickr Photo/Ian Ransley (CC BY-NC-ND)

Marcie Sillman talks with Dr. Lori Carris, plant pathologist at Washington State University, about why the United Nations is warning the world of a ferocious disease that's attacking bananas.