The lat­est Xylella fas­tidiosa out­break in Puglia showed how eas­ily the bac­te­ria spreads beyond the already iden­ti­fied areas of con­tain­ment and obser­va­tion.
"We need to change the approach and inten­sify both pre­ven­tion and inter­ven­tion activ­i­ties." - Coldiretti, Ital­ian Farm­ers’ Asso­ci­a­tion