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  1. It's Tick Season. Learn to Keep Yourself, Children and Pets Safe

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/its-tick-season-learn-keep-yourself-children-and-pets-safe-0

    included), and by doing so can transmit a variety of diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme ... disease. Fortunately, humans cannot get either disease directly from their pets. “Ticks generate ... trunk, palms and soles. Children are more susceptible to the disease than adults. “People who have ...

  2. Ohio State scientists affiliated with IPM Innovation Lab work with Kenya’s Kongai Tisa Farmer Association to improve tomato production

    https://ipa.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-scientists-affiliated-ipm-innovation-lab-work-kenya%E2%80%99s-kongai-tisa-farmer-association

    their production and manage critical pests and diseases of tomato, their most important cash crop. This ... in East Africa, began five years ago when Kenyan farmers indicated a variety of diseases and insect ... pests were reducing their tomato harvest. These diseases include bacterial wilt, late blight, and Tomato ...

  3. Wheat Growers Advised to Scout for Stripe Rust; Still Time to Apply Fungicide

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/wheat-growers-advised-scout-stripe-rust-still-time-apply-fungicide

    disease in their fields, according to an Ohio State University Extension wheat researcher. For those who ... do find the disease, there still may be time to apply a fungicide to fields planted with susceptible ... have reduced the risk for another disease, head scab, from having a negative impact on Ohio wheat, ...

  4. Ferdous-e-Elahi: Enhancing Food Security in Bangladesh

    https://ipa.osu.edu/international-perspectives/student-perspectives/ferdous-e-elahi-enhancing-food-security-bangladesh

    and cultivation practices amazed me growing up. When I was young, I noticed so many diseases existed ... crops. I was fascinated and soon realized for the first time that I needed to work with plant diseases ... losses pre and post-harvest. Soft rot, considered as one of the most serious bacterial diseases of potato ...

  5. An Animal Disease Found in Sheep May Have Ties to a Human Intestinal Illness

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/animal-disease-found-sheep-may-have-ties-human-intestinal-illness

    a clarification concerning the link between Johne's disease and Crohn's disease. Preliminary studies ... organisms isolated from sheep cause Crohn's disease in humans. In other words, genetic associations may ... not be sufficient to conclude a causal association. WOOSTER, Ohio- An animal disease that has ...

  6. Preliminary Data Links Human Illness to Animal Disease Found in Sheep

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/preliminary-data-links-human-illness-animal-disease-found-sheep

    November 6, 2001 WOOSTER, Ohio- An animal disease that has potential links to a human intestinal ... illness may be more closely tied to sheep rather than dairy cattle, where the disease is most commonly ... show that the organism that causes Johne's disease (pronounced yo-nees) in sheep may be related to ...

  7. OARDC Receives $2 Million Grant to Support Growing U.S. Greenhouse Tomato Industry

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/oardc-receives-2-million-grant-support-growing-us-greenhouse-tomato-industry

    Agriculture (NIFA) to improve disease control and food safety in the country’s multi-million dollar greenhouse ... a more systematic and effective way to combat diseases, which threaten the sustainability of this ... rapidly growing sector of U.S. vegetable production. Annual losses of as much as $1 million due to tomato diseases ...

  8. CFAES Graduate Students Selected for Distinguished Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security

    https://ipa.osu.edu/news/cfaes-graduate-students-selected-distinguished-borlaug-summer-institute-global-food-security

    and sustainable food supply. Developing eco-friendly disease and pest management techniques for ... communities in Nepal. Ram also dedicates himself to developing eco-friendly disease and pest management ... Disinfestation (ASD) for weed and disease management. When thinking about his expectations for the 2018 Borlaug ...

  9. Soybean Rust Infections Remain Low

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/soybean-rust-infections-remain-low

    soybean rust. The goal is to provide media with the latest updates on the disease and Ohio State's ... role in research and education. These updates are expected to continue throughout 2005. WOOSTER, Ohio ...

  10. Chow Line: Enjoy produce, but keep it safe (for 9/20/09)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-enjoy-produce-keep-it-safe-92009-0

    over the course of a year in 1970 to 280 pounds in 2008, the risk of food-borne diseases associated ... issued an eight-page commentary on "Food Safety and Fresh Produce: An Update." It's ... steps consumers can take to decrease their risk from any disease-causing microbes on fresh fruits and ...

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