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Their ubiquity may lead you to believe otherwise, but bananas are under threat — for the second time in recent history. The bananas we depend on today for breakfast on the go, a quick snack or sustenance aren’t the same ones people relied on before the 1950s. The first outbreak of the fungal disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB) decimated the Gros Michel variety and is poised to do the same to the Cavendish, the world’s most popular commercially available type.