Tag: Disease
Infections Spread By Tick Bites
When my dog and I walk along the Snake River during the warm seasons of the year, we can both come home with a tick…
Progress in Fighting Wheat Rust
Scientists have been hard at work in recent years combating a significant disease of wheat. Stem rust is caused by a group of nasty fungal…
Keeping Potatoes Happy and Healthy
The next time you eat a baked spud you might want to think of the agricultural scientists who are hard at work trying to help…
Dancing with Death over the Centuries
Once I had a case of influenza so bad I missed close to a month of graduate school. I ran a fever and coughed until…
Helping One Billion Bovines
You and I have our challenges and some real worries, too. There are bills to pay and doctors to visit, to say nothing of mulling…