{"id":61848,"date":"2026-11-11T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T06:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/?p=61848"},"modified":"2026-11-11T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:51:51","slug":"flavescence-doree-hungarys-austria-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/en\/english\/flavescence-doree-hungarys-austria-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavescence dor\u00e9e has devastated Hungary&#8217;s vineyards and quietly threatens those in Romania as well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cNeither the growers nor the authorities took it seriously enough. Everyone looked the other way a little, and that looking away is the reason we\u2019ve ended up where we ended up,\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>says <strong>\u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r<\/strong>, a board member of the Hungarian National Council of Wine Communities and president of the Sopron wine region, speaking to Qubit. Flavescence dor\u00e9e, a grapevine disease caused by a phytoplasma infection, has been plaguing Hungary\u2019s wine regions for close to fifteen years. In all that time, neither the government, nor the authorities, nor the growers took it seriously or reckoned with the far-reaching consequences its spread could bring \u2013 and a <strong>lack of state capacity<\/strong> made containing it harder still. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infection is spread by the American grapevine leafhopper, and although the disease poses no danger to humans, in recent years it has reshaped the regional wine market. In Austria, the authorities acted quickly against the disease, yet the infection has kept spreading, while in Romania it took years for the authorities to respond seriously to the disease spreading from one vineyard to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Flavescence dor\u00e9e is present in 18 of <strong>Hungary<\/strong>\u2019s 19 counties, and according to the most pessimistic forecasts, 30\u201350 percent of the country\u2019s vineyards could be lost. The disease is also spreading in <strong>Austria<\/strong>, and it threatens <strong>Romania<\/strong>\u2019s largest wine-growing area too. In this article, together with journalists from Austria\u2019s DOSSIER and \u00c1tl\u00e1tsz\u00f3 Erd\u00e9ly, we trace how we got here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The phytoplasma that causes flavescence dor\u00e9e was first detected in Hungary in 2013, but the invasive American grapevine leafhopper that spreads the bacterium had already appeared in 2006. It took the combination of the two for the disease to take hold.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In Austria, flavescence dor\u00e9e was first detected in vineyards in 2009, and <strong>in Romania in 2021<\/strong>. That year, <strong>Romania carried out four laboratory tests.<\/strong> Today the disease is present in several Austrian states and in several parts of Romania.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Through a freedom-of-information request, we obtained the number of tests carried out by the Hungarian National Food Chain Safety Office (N\u00e9bih). The figures show that few tests were done in 2023\u20132024, the period that proved crucial to the outbreak\u2019s escalation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Diseased plants must be removed as soon as possible, yet for years no one actively looked for them in Hungary. In some cases, infected vines stayed in vineyards for months while the process moved from sampling to the issuing of a removal order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The disease can also spread through<strong> infected propagation material<\/strong>. A heat treatment could make the material disease-free, but it is very expensive, and no one wants to pay for it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For years, growers had no incentive to report outbreaks of flavescence dor\u00e9e. The fragmentation of Hungary\u2019s public administration and the previous government\u2019s late involvement also held back the response. The new Tisza government led by P\u00e9ter Magyar and the new parliament have tightened and accelerated measures against flavescence dor\u00e9e and broadened eligibility for compensation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-1024x819.png\" alt=\"Flavescence dor\u00e9e in Hungary\" class=\"wp-image-61851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-1536x1229.png 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-750x600.png 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en-1140x912.png 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_hungary_en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By August 2026, N\u00e9bih had confirmed the presence of flavescence dor\u00e9e in 18 counties and 22 wine regions. Infection is severe in Zala County, on the northern and southern side of Lake Balaton \u2013 parts of Veszpr\u00e9m and Somogy counties \u2013 and, since this season, in the country\u2019s northeast as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to Qubit&#8217;s freedom-of-information request, N\u00e9bih provided no information on either the size of the affected area or the number of vineyard holdings subject to officially ordered control measures, saying it did not have these data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-1024x683.png\" alt=\"Flavescence dor\u00e9e in Austria\" class=\"wp-image-61854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-750x500.png 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en-1140x760.png 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_austria_en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Hungary, Austria has no national tally either. Asked by DOSSIER, the Austrian agriculture ministry said it had no specific data on how many hectares of vineyards are affected, because keeping track of them is the responsibility of the states and the regional plant protection bodies. Such figures are badly needed, because the disease, which spread out of southern and southeastern Styria in the late 2000s, now affects all of Burgenland and has also been detected for the first time in Lower Austria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Romania, according to the plant health authority, flavescence dor\u00e9e<strong> has put pressure mainly on the Moldavian Hills<\/strong>, which produced more than half of the country\u2019s grape harvest last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-1024x740.png\" alt=\"Flavescence dor\u00e9e in Romania\" class=\"wp-image-61857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-1024x740.png 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-1536x1109.png 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-120x86.png 120w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-750x542.png 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en-1140x823.png 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_romania_en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P\u00e9ter G\u00e1l, head of the viticulture and oenology department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy, told Qubit that at the start of the year 17 percent of Hungary\u2019s vineyard area lay within infected zones and 28 percent within buffer zones \u2013 the three-kilometre band surrounding infected areas. According to G\u00e1l, these zones may by now cover<strong> 50\u201360 percent of Hungary\u2019s roughly 56,000 hectares of vineyards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is the tip of the iceberg,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>said <strong>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Garamszegi<\/strong>, director general of the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary, about the epidemic. Vines infected with the phytoplasma can go a long time <strong>without showing symptoms <\/strong>while the pathogen is still present, and PCR tests are not always sensitive enough to detect the infection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, to support control efforts in Hungary and track where the infection is appearing, N\u00e9bih released a modern, interactive map on 2 June. In July, the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy, led by Szabolcs B\u00f3na, amended a decree so that compensation can be claimed more than once. And a legal amendment passed by parliament in October makes it easier to <strong>grub up neglected vineyards<\/strong>, which can act as sources of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Everyone thought it wouldn\u2019t happen to us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavescence dor\u00e9e, which sharply reduces grape yields, is <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nebih.gov.hu\/documents\/10182\/362862982\/18_IKEA_Grapevine_Flavesc_doree_phytopla_2022.pdf\">caused<\/a> by phytoplasma \u2013 the bacterium <em>Candidatus Phytoplasma vitis<\/em>, a parasite of the plant\u2019s phloem. In white-berried varieties the infection turns the leaves yellow; in red varieties it turns them red. It often comes with the leaves rolling downward into a roughly triangular shape, and with stunted fruit development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>In Austria<\/strong>, the infection was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ots.at\/presseaussendung\/OTS_20110117_OTS0070\/ages-die-goldgelbe-vergilbung-der-rebe-breitet-sich-aus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first detected<\/a> in 2009 in Tieschen, in southeastern Styria near the Slovenian border.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">N\u00e9bih\u2019s predecessor began looking for symptoms of flavescence dor\u00e9e <strong>in Hungarian<\/strong> vineyards as early as the 1990s, and the pathogen was <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nebih.gov.hu\/nebih_wire_nyito\/-\/asset_publisher\/hHkpthMAWS95\/content\/szolo-aranyszinu-sargasag-grapevine-flavescence-doree\/maximized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first detected<\/a> in 2013 in Lenti, in Zala County.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Local quarantine measures were imposed because of the phytoplasma, which probably came over from Slovenia. In June 2014 N\u00e9bih drew up a plant health <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nebih.gov.hu\/documents\/10182\/21468\/FD_KeSZENLeTI_terv_Final_honlap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contingency plan<\/a> to stop the disease from spreading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>In Romania<\/strong>, flavescence dor\u00e9e was officially detected in vineyards for the first time in 2021, in Boto\u0219ani County in the country\u2019s far northeast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The bacterium is spread by an invasive insect introduced to Europe, the <strong>American grapevine leafhopper<\/strong> (<em>Scaphoideus titanus<\/em>), <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article\/file?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0036882&amp;type=printable&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first spotted<\/a> on the continent in 1958 in vineyards in southwestern France. In Hungary the leafhopper was found in 2006, and a nationwide survey of its populations was launched in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cFor the epidemic to take off, an introduced vector had to turn up alongside a native pathogen. It was like bringing together two components of an adhesive,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>says <strong>Ferenc Samu<\/strong>, research professor at the Hungarian HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research. The result was a gradual, then increasingly conspicuous spread of the pathogen through Hungarian vineyards. The outbreak likely began to escalate around 2023, and weather factors, including a wetter spring, may have contributed to the wave of disease that drew so much attention in 2025. According to \u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r, Italy\u2019s experience in the 1990s meant that all the information about the threat posed by the disease was already available. \u201cBut everyone in Hungary thought it wouldn\u2019t happen to us,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Europe, the leafhopper depends on the grapevine for both feeding and reproduction: it lays its eggs in cracks in the vine\u2019s perennial woody parts. After hatching in spring, the young pass through five nymphal stages (L1\u2013L5). The adults \u2013 far more mobile than the nymphs, and therefore more efficient at spreading the infection \u2013 appear in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\n59\nAmerican grapevine leafhopper, vector of the Flavescence dor\u00e9e epidemic\" class=\"wp-image-61772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-295x222.jpg 295w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-750x564.jpg 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca-1140x858.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/amerikai_szolokaboca.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American grapevine leafhopper on a grapevine leaf. Yerpo\/Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change, along with changes in land use and farming practices, has created more favourable conditions in Hungary for non-native species such as the American grapevine leafhopper, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Garamszegi says, while tourism and trade make it easier for invasive species to enter the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, over the past 10\u201315 years<strong> insecticide use has disappeared<\/strong> from routine grape growing, and <strong>leafhopper numbers have climbed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Gergely Tholt, an engineer at the Plant Protection Institute of the HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, for much of the 2010s even mass appearances of leafhoppers caused no problems, because the insects were not infected. Once that changed, even a handful of infected individuals could do devastating damage. And because of the infection\u2019s incubation period, the leafhopper could spread the phytoplasma from plant to plant as much as a year before symptoms appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long symptomless period may have lulled growers into a<strong> false sense of security<\/strong>: they did not see right away that trouble was coming, even as the infection was already spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201eHa az elm\u00falt \u00e9veket veszem alapul, akkor ez egy Armageddon&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVKbhG-M12I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Garamszegi, exactly how the phytoplasma spreads between vineyards is still an open question. It can be carried by the leafhopper itself, but also by other insects, and there are other host plants that may help it move between vineyards. The pathogen can also enter a vineyard through infected propagation material. In the current epidemic, Moln\u00e1r sees infected vines and the leafhoppers as the bigger risks for the disease\u2019s spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, Romania\u2019s plant health authority <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/anfdf.ro\/flavescenta-aurie-precizari-dupa-reactiile-viticultorilor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blamed infected propagation material<\/a><\/strong> for the disease reaching distant areas. Within the European Union, shipments of propagation material must carry a plant passport, but this certificate does not guarantee that they are free of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The fight against flavescence dor\u00e9e rests on three main pillars:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">detecting and removing infected vines as early as possible,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">killing the American grapevine leafhopper with insecticides,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">guaranteeing that propagation material is free of infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>How well insecticides work depends heavily on how, and at what point in the year, <strong>spraying<\/strong> is done: Hungary\u2019s N\u00e9bih considers it justified to start as early as May, when the first nymphal stage (L1) appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because vines need to be sprayed precisely and at close range, experts say the helicopter spraying carried out in Hungary in autumn 2025 did not amount to genuine control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Gergely Tholt, the response was also held back by the misconception that the epidemic could be managed by spraying alone, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/410878766_A_fitoplazma_ugyeben_-_Gyakorlatorientalt_kutatas-fejlesztesi_iranyok_melyek_hozzajarulhatnak_a_hazai_szolo-bor_agazatot_veszelyezteto_aranyszinu_sargasag_jarvany_megfekezesehez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spotting and removing diseased plants<\/a> as early as possible is just as crucial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most experts say <strong>abandoned or poorly tended vineyards<\/strong> act as reservoirs for the pathogen and therefore pose a significant risk of infection. Clearing and managing them has been a key priority since last year. In Austria, the authorities in Burgenland alone sent 300 notices in 2026 to owners who had neglected their vineyards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fitoplazma_tunetek.jpg\" alt=\"Symptoms of flavescence dor\u00e9e\" class=\"wp-image-61781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fitoplazma_tunetek.jpg 751w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fitoplazma_tunetek-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Symptoms of flavescence dor\u00e9e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Plant pathologist <strong>Ter\u00e9zia Dula<\/strong>, speaking to Qubit, called for an assessment of how great a risk of infection abandoned vineyards pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the Austrian state provides no support for clearing infected areas, the authorities do take grubbing-up seriously. Under a Burgenland regulation in force since May this year, growers in areas declared infected zones <strong>must remove symptomatic vines<\/strong> and spray at least twice. Anyone who receives a notice to uproot their vines and fails to comply <strong>faces a fine<\/strong> of up to \u20ac6,000 per hectare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe authorities now have to enforce this strictly,\u201d says Burgenland winemaker Mathias Jalits. \u201cAnd maybe we also need a precedent \u2013 someone actually having to pay the fine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of September 2026, no one in Burgenland had been fined, the state told DOSSIER. Even tougher measures were floated in Styria, where the state agriculture minister spoke in May of possible fines of \u20ac30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOSSIER found, however, that the fines actually imposed fell far short of that: in southeastern Styria, 21 fines were issued in 2025 and 2026, only one of which exceeded \u20ac1,000; all the others ranged from \u20ac100 to \u20ac350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hungary\u2019s plant protection network was dismantled, and no one actively searched for diseased vines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Hungary, the authority can order the removal of vines in infected areas, and impose a 1-kilometre quarantine zone, only once a case has been confirmed by laboratory testing. N\u00e9bih says that even before the epidemic surged in 2025, it was actively monitoring the disease\u2019s spread in Hungary through a trap network for assessing leafhopper infestation, official field inspections, laboratory PCR diagnostics and an inspection system for propagation material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThere was no active search for diseased vines,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gergely Tholt<\/strong> says of the 2013\u20132024 period, during which N\u00e9bih\u2019s monitoring ran on low sample numbers. That was no accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey dismantled the plant protection network. There aren\u2019t enough specialists, and there\u2019s no laboratory capacity either,\u201d Ter\u00e9zia Dula told Qubit in the spring. Back in 2016, she had already sounded dire warnings in the trade magazine <em>Bor \u00e9s Piac <\/em>about the threat posed by flavescence dor\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to N\u00e9bih\u2019s response to Qubit&#8217;s freedom-of-information request, between 2013 and 2017 the number of samples tested rose from 377 to 2,889, and the number of positive samples from 37 to 401. The share of positive samples peaked in 2021, when 36 percent of the samples tested proved infected. The number of tests then fell considerably, hovering around 1,000 a year in 2022\u20132024, before rising sharply last year to a record 3,682.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-1024x751.png\" alt=\"Flavescen\u021ba dor\u00e9e tests in Hungary\" class=\"wp-image-61862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-1536x1126.png 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-750x550.png 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en-1140x836.png 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_hungary_en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although mobile laboratories in Gy\u00f6ngy\u00f6s and Miskolc were brought into the effort in autumn 2025, <strong>only one accredited laboratory in Hungary<\/strong> can detect the phytoplasma to this day: N\u00e9bih\u2019s National Plant Health Reference Laboratory. (The Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory at the John von Neumann University\u2019s Faculty of Horticulture and Rural Development is in the preparatory phase of accreditation, which it is expected to obtain early next year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to \u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r, detecting flavescence dor\u00e9e \u2013 from sampling through laboratory testing to the issuing of an official order \u2013 sometimes took several months. All the while, the infected plant stayed in the vineyard, where it could keep spreading the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to our freedom-of-information request, N\u00e9bih said that in March this year its laboratory testing capacity was 400 samples a month. Since autumn 2025 it has expanded its PCR diagnostic capacity and has also brought in drones fitted with AI-based recognition systems to help find infected vineyards. Of the 56,000 hectares of officially registered vineyards, 8,000 hectares were covered by in-person inspection, while vineyards larger than 80 hectares were assessed by drone, P\u00e9ter G\u00e1l told Qubit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-1024x751.png\" alt=\"Flavescen\u021ba dor\u00e9e tests in Austria\" class=\"wp-image-61865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-1536x1126.png 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-750x550.png 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en-1140x836.png 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_austria_en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Austria, AGES (the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety) has been responsible for collecting and analysing samples since the disease was first detected in 2009. A sharp increase in the number of samples submitted was recorded in 2025, with<strong> a new record of 697 samples reached in 2026<\/strong>. However, FD was detected less frequently than in the previous year. How can this be explained given the disease&#8217;s continued spread?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the AGES, \u201csurveillance has been extended to areas where the FD epidemic is still at an early stage and where only isolated cases have been detected so far.\u201d In other words, no further samples were collected in heavily affected areas because the presence of FD was already well established. This means that the 2026 figures do not, in fact, reflect the actual situation on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Romania<\/strong>, in 2021 \u2013 the year the infection was detected \u2013 the national plant health authority <strong>(ANF) carried out four tests (yes, four)<\/strong>, one of which came back positive, according to figures \u00c1tl\u00e1tsz\u00f3 Erd\u00e9ly obtained through a freedom-of-information request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-1024x751.png\" alt=\"Flavescen\u021ba dor\u00e9e tests in Romania\" class=\"wp-image-61868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-1536x1126.png 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-750x550.png 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en-1140x836.png 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/fd_tests_romania_en.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authority took on responsibility for monitoring flavescence dor\u00e9e when Romania joined the EU in 2007. Its public reports suggest that it was tracking the disease in the 2010s, but it is unknown how large an area it inspected or how many samples it tested. In 2026 the authority stepped up not only its communications but also its testing: by early autumn this year it had carried out 476 tests, 44 of which were positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, <strong>Hungary tested eight times as many samples, even though its vineyard area is a third the size of Romania\u2019s<\/strong>. The two countries do have one thing in common: like Hungary, Romania has only a single accredited laboratory, near Bucharest, that can detect flavescence dor\u00e9e by PCR testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Romanian authority said, however, that it has expanded testing capacity over the past three years and can now carry out 100 tests a month. In a country where <strong>grapes are grown on 165,000 hectares<\/strong> and the plant health authority\u2019s local offices have 265 staff, suspected infected areas are inspected on foot; no drones or remote sensing are used. According to the latest agricultural census, more than half a million farms in Romania grew grapes, a third of them on less than half a hectare \u2013 meaning the overstretched authorities would need to get information about phytoplasma to at least half a million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Romania\u2019s rules set no penalties<\/strong> for growers who fail to report a suspected infection. According to Romania\u2019s plant health authority, introducing them is not warranted, since growers cannot confirm the presence of the phytoplasma with a test themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Neither nurseries nor growers want to pay for the treatment that guarantees infection-free propagation material<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavescence dor\u00e9e can spread through infected propagation material, yet replanting the vineyards grubbed up because of the epidemic is sharply increasing demand for that material. N\u00e9bih regards the mandatory official inspections, laboratory tests and plant health certification in propagation material production as an important part of the epidemic response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others would go further. The method recommended by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for making propagation material infection-free is hot water treatment, an effective process that kills the phytoplasma. It is widely used across Europe but only sporadically in Hungary, and according to a statement N\u00e9bih made in May, suitable procedures for Hungarian grape varieties <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nebih.gov.hu\/-\/beszamolo-a-szolo-aranyszinu-sargasagra-fokuszalo-nemzetkozi-konferenciarol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are still being worked out<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r, who is also vice-president of the Hungarian Association of Grapevine Propagation Material Producers, named two main reasons why the method has not caught on: <strong>few heat treatment machines<\/strong> are available, and the<strong> high cost of treatment<\/strong> falls on the producers of propagation material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r is also managing director of Teleki Kober Sz\u0151l\u0151oltv\u00e1ny Kft., a grafted-vine nursery that owns one of Hungary\u2019s two certified heat treatment machines. In his experience the method can work, but because of the risk of damaging the plants and the costs involved, he considers heat treatment justified only when the propagation material is at risk \u2013 for example, if it comes from a nursery suspected of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Vineyard affected by flavescence dor\u00e9e\" class=\"wp-image-61794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A vineyard plot with gaps on Szent Gy\u00f6rgy Hill. Photo: Zsuzsi Kun\/Qubit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ter\u00e9zia Dula would require all producers of propagation material to use hot water treatment, which the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) also explicitly recommends for freeing material of phytoplasma and producing disease-free stock. The high cost of buying and running the machines pushes up the price of propagation material, but according to \u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r, growers are unwilling to pay the extra cost. Drawing on examples from abroad, he therefore proposes state subsidies for buying heat treatment machines, state-owned machines, or a system of machines bought and run jointly by producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Moln\u00e1r, in recent years growers had no incentive to report the appearance of flavescence dor\u00e9e because of the quarantine measures, the mandatory grubbing-up and the mountain of paperwork that came with them \u2013 and so the infection was able to spread from one vineyard to the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why, following Italian and French examples, they pushed for setting up <strong>inspection teams<\/strong>, which are organised and coordinated by the National Council of Wine Communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Vines infected by flavescence dor\u00e9e\" class=\"wp-image-61812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/qubit3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Infected vines at the Gilvesy estate, on Szent Gy\u00f6rgy Hill. Photo: Zsuzsi Kun\/Qubit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Romania, there is no comparably organised and coordinated framework<\/strong> for regional cooperation \u2013 and so none for fighting flavescence dor\u00e9e either. Stefan Polgar, who runs the Cluj-Napoca agricultural university\u2019s 65-hectare teaching vineyard in Sibiu County, told \u00c1tl\u00e1tsz\u00f3 Erd\u00e9ly that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>phytoplasma is already present all over Romania; growers are simply afraid to talk about it openly because they don\u2019t know what will happen to their vineyards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Stefan Polgar himself called inspectors out to the teaching farm in August over a suspected infection, but by October he still had not been told the test results. Csaba Lengyel, a winemaker from S\u0103cueni (Sz\u00e9kelyh\u00edd), also called in the plant health authority himself after symptoms of flavescence dor\u00e9e appeared on his estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lab test did not detect the phytoplasma, but he decided to grub up 250 vines anyway \u2013 and those plots will not bear grapes again for at least five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romania\u2019s ethnic Hungarian winemakers only sat up and took notice a year or two ago, when their counterparts in Hungary started telling them about flavescence dor\u00e9e, said winemaker <strong>G\u00e9za Balla<\/strong>, head of the Association of Transylvanian Hungarian Winemakers \u2013 something a dozen winemakers confirmed to \u00c1tl\u00e1tsz\u00f3 Erd\u00e9ly. In the spring, Dorin Popa, a retired agronomist from the University of Oradea, had not yet seen a similar sense of alarm among ethnic Romanian winemakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Tisza government has sped up the response; in Austria and Romania, growers get no meaningful compensation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 50\u201360 percent of Hungary\u2019s roughly 56,000 hectares of vineyards is now either infected or inside a buffer zone, P\u00e9ter G\u00e1l said on <a href=\"https:\/\/qubit.hu\/2026\/10\/03\/veszelyben-a-magyar-szoloteruletek-fele-a-fitoplazma-ellen-minden-gazdara-szukseg-lesz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qubit\u2019s podcast<\/a> in early October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, the trend shows no sign of slowing: according to the most pessimistic forecasts, <strong>30\u201350 percent of Hungary\u2019s vineyards could be lost to the infection<\/strong> and to poor management, says viticulturist and winemaker Bence Csizmadia, wine range development manager at the wine merchant Bort\u00e1rsas\u00e1g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities began to take the fight against the disease seriously in 2024, and in autumn 2025 the then agriculture ministry set up a working group, coordinated by P\u00e9ter G\u00e1l, to tackle the situation. Twelve years after the infection appeared, N\u00e9bih set up a working group of its own. Of its work, R\u00f3bert Tarsoly, president of the Zala Wine Region Council, said in the spring that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>expert backed, issue-focused proposals routinely got stuck at the level of the authorities and the ministry\u2019s political decision-makers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/hnt.hu\/hirek\/tajekoztatas-a-szolo-aranyszinu-sargasag-elleni-vedekezes-es-a-kapcsolodo-tamogatasok-szabalyainak-valtozasairol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proposals<\/a> drawn up jointly by the National Council of Wine Communities and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Economy, in July the threshold for mandatory removal of an entire vineyard was lowered from 30 to 20 percent, compensation for a given vineyard became claimable more than once, and the maximum area eligible for pesticide subsidies was raised from 20 to 40 hectares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hungarian growers who spoke to Qubit are still not satisfied, but<strong> the Austrian state treats its grape growers even more harshly<\/strong>: according to DOSSIER, growers receive no compensation whatsoever for grubbing up infected vines.<strong> In Romania<\/strong>, meanwhile, small growers complain that the agriculture ministry has not announced any <a href=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/en\/english\/romanian-farmers-subsidies-impact-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compensation scheme<\/a>, while in 2024 the lion\u2019s share of <strong>replanting subsidies went to a single grape grower<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Hungary, the ministry proposed a further legal amendment in August to tighten the fight against the phytoplasma, which parliament<a href=\"https:\/\/jogaszvilag.hu\/napi\/torvenygyar-az-orszaggyulesben-az-aranyszinu-sargasagtol-a-baszna-ugy-karrendezeseig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> passed on<\/a> 13 October. The amendment places particular emphasis on making it easier to grub up neglected plots that act as hotspots of infection. In practice, this means that infected vines on ownerless or state-owned vineyard holdings can be removed within about two months of being reported. The process remains lengthy: it begins with field surveys and continues with the testing of suspect samples \u2013 and the administrative apparatus that carries it out is fragmented and decentralised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are nineteen government commissioners in the nineteen government offices. There are nineteen legal advisers, and despite N\u00e9bih\u2019s professional oversight, nineteen different approaches to a single problem,\u201d says Moln\u00e1r.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both P\u00e9ter G\u00e1l and \u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r acknowledged that the authorities bore significant responsibility for the late start of the fight against the phytoplasma. Although the ministry has taken a more active role over the past two years, N\u00e9bih \u2013 which is responsible for testing infected vines and designating buffer zones \u2013 still suffers from a shortage of capacity and staff. Among the latest administrative developments is a mobile app developed at the initiative of the National Council of Wine Communities. It could be made available to users, but according to Moln\u00e1r, the authorities first have to overcome the data protection hurdles that come with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president of the Sopron wine region said the app would support the control process with two functions. First, uncultivated vineyards could be reported with a georeferenced photo, sparing the authorities a site visit. Second, symptomatic vines could be flagged and documented. Although the Tisza government tightened the response to flavescence dor\u00e9e further after taking office, the disease\u2019s consequences reach beyond politics and beyond any one government\u2019s term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winemakers and experts Qubit spoke to were unanimous that <strong>growers who cultivate grapes as a hobby<\/strong> \u2013 or who do not supply the broader market \u2013 could easily be squeezed out by the extra costs and technical burdens flavescence dor\u00e9e brings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We have to learn to live with it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on last year\u2019s experience, Gergely Tholt and Ferenc Samu believe Hungary may still be in the early phase of the flavescence dor\u00e9e surge. They expect the situation to get even worse this year and next. In Burgenland, meanwhile, experts at the federal Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), which monitors the spread of the American grapevine leafhopper, found 262 leafhoppers in their traps at one monitoring site last year, but only 32 this year, and saw a similar downward trend in southeastern Styria. In Romania, it is not yet clear whether the greater attention flavescence dor\u00e9e has received this year will spur growers to organise themselves and fight back more effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Garamszegi, given Hungary\u2019s geographic position, nothing could have stopped the invasive American grapevine leafhopper \u2013 the phytoplasma\u2019s vector \u2013 from arriving around 2006. The authorities could, however, have responded early: an effective monitoring system could have softened the impact. Yet even 20 years after the leafhopper was first found in Hungary, no such system has been built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ter\u00e9zia Dula believes control measures should have been made mandatory as soon as the American grapevine leafhopper became established in Hungary. In her view, this could have stopped flavescence dor\u00e9e from getting out of hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same factors that let the flavescence dor\u00e9e epidemic worsen beneath the surface for years \u2013 from a lack of state capacity to the looking-away \u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r describes \u2013 resurface in how even more consequential threats are handled. Think of the Covid pandemic, the <a href=\"https:\/\/qubit.hu\/2024\/11\/29\/mar-magyarorszagon-is-nyomon-kovetik-hogy-fertoz-e-emlosoket-a-h5n1-madarinfluenza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global spread of H5N1<\/a> bird flu and its <a href=\"https:\/\/qubit.hu\/2025\/01\/06\/egy-kanadai-kislany-tulelte-a-h5n1-madarinfluenzat-de-az-amerikai-kormany-egyre-jobban-aggodik-a-virus-miatt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adaptation to mammals<\/a>, or climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal is no longer to eliminate the pathogen \u2013 that is now definitely impossible \u2013 but to push it back as far as possible, says R\u00f3bert Tarsoly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have to live with both the leafhopper and the phytoplasma for the long term,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>says L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Garamszegi as well. That calls for a new long-term vineyard management strategy, one that integrates the fight against flavescence dor\u00e9e with defences against other risks. \u201cEradication is no longer possible,\u201d agrees Helga Reisenzein of the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). \u201cSooner or later, we\u2019ll have to learn to live with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future of Hungarian, Austrian and Romanian vineyards now hinges on whether we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cover photo: Edit \u00c9va P\u00e1l<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article was produced in collaboration between Qubit, 444, \u00c1tl\u00e1tsz\u00f3 Erd\u00e9ly, and DOSSIER, with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Contributing journalists: Andr\u00e1s T\u00f3th, Sarolta Kuglics (Qubit), Albert Gazda (444), T\u00fcnde Szab\u00f3 (\u00c1tl\u00e1tsz\u00f3 Erd\u00e9ly), and Elisa Tomaselli (DOSSIER).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/atlatszo.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Journalismfund-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Journalismfund Europe\" class=\"wp-image-57435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Journalismfund-logo.jpg 482w, https:\/\/prod2.atlatszo.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Journalismfund-logo-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNeither the growers nor the authorities took it seriously enough. Everyone looked the other way a little, and that looking away is the reason we\u2019ve ended up where we ended up,\u201d&nbsp; says \u00c1kos Moln\u00e1r, a board member of the Hungarian National Council of Wine Communities and president of the Sopron wine region, speaking to Qubit. 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