WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities have charged two Chinese nationals with smuggling a fungus that could cause significant damage to crops of wheat, barley, maize and rice and has been described as a "potential agroterrorism weapon."
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The biological pathogens smuggled into the U.S. by two Chinese nationals could have destroyed corn crops like this one in Jerseyville, Illinois. © Reuters
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