Damage: In Peru, it caused a yellow mosaic in young leaves of pepino. In the Netherlands, affected tomato plants showed yellow spots on the leaves, mild interveinal chlorosis and in some cases minor leaf malformations. Fruits sometimes showed discoloration. It appears that losses were not very significant (only 5% of the growers reported economic losses of less than 5%). In UK, affected tomatoes showed distorted leaf development, with bubbling of the leaf surface and chlorosis. Affected plants were very stunted and distorted. It appears that the disease spreads very rapidly and that the virus can cause significant crop losses, if early action is not taken to eliminate infection. Finally, a new tomato disease has been observed in Spain since 2001 (called torrao or cribado) and studies have showed that most diseased plants were infected with a newly described virus (Tomato torrado virus) and PepMV. Although further studies are needed, it seems that PepMV could interact at least with this new virus, and cause damage to tomato plants.