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Sooty Bark Disease


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I had to dismantle an almost dead Sycamore yesterday and once I’d removed the Ivy I discovered it had Sooty Bark Disease.

I’ve only come across this once in 25 years so researched it further at lunch.

I was slightly alarmed when I read that exposure to the spore can cause a ‘debilitating Pneumonitis’ after 4-6 hours post exposure .

Luckily this hasn’t yet happened but has anyone ever suffered this when dealing with Sycamore with this disease ?

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

It used to be a notifable disease. Burn on site and no removal etc. I had a load to do in the 90's and it cropped up regularly. I've had a few episodes of pneumonia etc since but then, I smoke, weld smoke, wood dust, animal dust etc, so hard to blame anything nowadays! 

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