'Panama Disease' could spell disaster for the Banana Republic.

[the other mike]

There are thousands of types of bananas but Americans have eyes for only one kind -- the very marketable yellow Cavendish, which accounts for 95% of global banana exports. But this multi-billion dollar industry is under threat. A fungus called Panama Disease is rapidly infecting the world's Cavendish crops and could spell disaster for the monoculture-dependent worldwide banana trade.

VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung heads to the heart of banana country in Latin American and the Philippines to see the devastating effects of the disease and to investigate what the loss of the banana would really mean besides a less colorful lunchbox.



Here's a little history.

 

[Votto]

There are thousands of types of bananas but Americans have eyes for only one kind -- the very marketable yellow Cavendish, which accounts for 95% of global banana exports. But this multi-billion dollar industry is under threat. A fungus called Panama Disease is rapidly infecting the world's Cavendish crops and could spell disaster for the monoculture-dependent worldwide banana trade.

VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung heads to the heart of banana country in Latin American and the Philippines to see the devastating effects of the disease and to investigate what the loss of the banana would really mean besides a less colorful lunchbox.



Here's a little history.

Serves those bananas right for not wearing masks and grouping together like that.

Idiots..

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Save us Bill Gates!

 

[the other mike]

Save us Bill Gates!

And the Clinton Foundation of course, since they did such wonderful work in Haiti.

 

[Votto]

Save us Bill Gates!

Bill Gates has his own private banana plantation in his basement.

That boy is ready for the end of the universe I tell ya!

Notice he always has a smile on his face. That either means you are insane or corrupt as poo itself.

 

[the other mike]

You haven't had great bananas if you've never tried Hawaiian apple bananas.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Save us Bill Gates!

Bill Gates has his own private banana plantation in his basement.

That boy is ready for the end of the universe I tell ya!

Notice he always has a smile on his face. That either means you are insane or corrupt as poo itself.

Don't forget his ample use of the color pink in his warbrobe...so disarming...the Satanic imp.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

You haven't had great bananas if you've never tried Hawaiian apple bananas.
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They have little stumpy ones like that in SE Asia...so sweet.

 

[the other mike]

You haven't had great bananas if you've never tried Hawaiian apple bananas.
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They have little stumpy ones like that in SE Asia...so sweet.

And they still have the tart 'green' flavor even after they start tuning brown.

 

[badger2]

Panama disease causal agent, Fusarium oxysporum cubense TR4, uses a major drug resistance protein to accomplish its dirty work, and there is a COVID-19 link to remdesivir:

A major gene of its pathology is the drug-resistance gene, SGE1:

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SGE1 gene product: a novel drug-resistance protein within the major facilitator superfamily - PubMed

Several pleiotropic drug sensitivities have been described in yeast. Some involve the loss of putative drug efflux pumps analogous to mammalian P-glycoproteins, others are caused by defects in sterol synthesis resulting in higher plasma membrane permeability. We have constructed a Saccharomyces...

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'....drug efflux pumps analogous to mammalian p-glycoprotein....'

COVID-19 / P-Glycoprotein

Drug-induced Liver Injury in a Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019: Potential Interaction of Remdesivir With P-Glycoprotein Inhibitors - PubMed

We report a case of a man with COVID-19 who developed acute hepatotoxicity related to remdesivir with probable interaction of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitors. Until further details on this interaction become available, we recommend physicians to be cautious with the prescription of P-gp...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

'....acute hepatotoxicity related to remdesivir, with probable interaction of p-glycoprotein.'

 

[badger2]

Asian lung fluke, Paragonimus, is a trematode, and we've already shown a report for fatal trematodiasis in the suspected intermediate COVID-19 host, Chrysemys:

Fatal trematodiasis in research turtles - PubMed

During a 5-year period, 16 freshwater turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans and Chrysemys picta) that were purchased for research purposes died spontaneously. Clinical signs of disease included lethargy, constant swimming, swimming sideways, hemiplegia, and ulcerative lesions on the carapace. At...

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