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 the humble potato deal successfully with some significant diseases.
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 it felt like my whole world was turned upside down. Because I’m a geologist, not a medical doctor, I nicknamed that bout of illness “the plague.” But what I experienced […]
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 over those strange sounds coming from the rear of the car. But I confess I thought the life of a cow was rather placid.
PULLMAN, Wash. – A fungus that causes potentially fatal disease has been found in Oregon and Washington. Cryptococcus gattii has been causing disease in Canada, especially the Vancouver region, since 1999. 21 cases of fungal infection have been noted in the United States, five of which resulted in death.
PROSSER, Wash. – A new disease is infecting and killing walnut trees in Washington. Symptoms of the disease include a yellowing of leaves, usually at the top of the tree, as well as subsequent die-back of the tree’s larger branches. The disease, called Thousand Canker, was discovered in the Prosser area during the summer of […]