Tag Archives: disease
dread potato disease
For today’s paper, I wrote about late blight – you may know it better as potato blight, the disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine. It’s still a huge problem for potato and tomato farmers, so a bunch of scientists … Continue reading
here, cute animal, have a disease
Hey, another story! This one’s about a National Geographic grantee who’s studying a bunch of mongooses in a national park in Botswana who get the human version of tuberculosis. Which, it turns out, is really bad for mongooses. When she … Continue reading