Spike in Sudden Oak Death Disease Across Bay Area

A new survey finds the contagious sudden oak death disease is spreading deeper into some urban areas of the East Bay and Peninsula. Sixteen percent of the trees sampled in eastern Contra Costa County are now infected with the disease. On the eastern side of the Peninsula, about 36 percent of the trees sampled were found to be infected. In both cases, those percentages have skyrocketed in the past few years