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LiveScience.com created a Top 10 list of most disruptive technologies placing rubber 7th on the list. Other items that made the cut: magnetic strip card, gun powder, iron smelting, X-rays, microprocessor, electricity, nuclear fission, flight and, of course, the Internet.

Anecdotal evidence of rumored leaf blight outbreaks in India and Thailand have spread recently. An article published by Rubber and Plastic News in October 2007 confirms specific details about an outbreak of leaf blight “throughout the continents where 93% of the world’s supply of natural rubber is produces.”
Industry experts are concerned about the increasing price [...]