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The Department of Health and Human Services is providing $176 million to Moderna to develop a bird flu vaccine for humans.

Huanglongbing – also known as Citrus Greening Disease – has caused Florida’s orange production to decline by nearly 90% since 2005, allowing California to overtake the country’s top-producing citrus state.

Citrus growers are pleased but environmental groups are concerned about the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of aldicarb for use on oranges and grapefruit in Florida to combat citrus greening, which has devastated the industry in the state since it was first identified in 2005.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2017—Florida citrus growers have a lot on their hands – literally – as they begin to pick up the pieces from the devastation of hurricane Irma.