PARIS (Reuters) - The EU's top health official called on Italy to do more to contain a bacterium that has ravaged olive groves in part of the country and for which no treatment currently exists.
The Puglia region in southern Italy was the first area in the European Union to be hit by the Xylella fastidiosa pathogen in 2013, also dubbed "olive tree leprosy".
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