Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.A fungus that has in the Eastern Hemisphere has, despite years of preventative efforts, arrived in the Americas.ICA, the Colombian agriculture and livestock authority, confirmed on Thursday that laboratory tests have positively identified the presence of so-called Panama disease Tropical Race 4 on banana farms in the Caribbean coastal region. The announcement was accompanied by a declaration of a national state of emergency.The discovery of the fungus represents a potential impending disaster for bananas as both a food source...…Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.A fungus that has in the Eastern Hemisphere has, despite years of preventative efforts, arrived in the Americas.ICA, the Colombian agriculture and livestock authority, confirmed on Thursday that laboratory tests have positively identified the presence of so-called Panama disease Tropical Race 4 on banana farms in the Caribbean coastal region. The announcement was accompanied by a declaration of a national state of emergency.The discovery of the fungus represents a potential impending disaster for bananas as both a food source...WW…

|A deadly shortage of venom antidote has spurred a little-known group of scientists in Costa Rica to action100,000 people die from venomous snakebites each year, a problem the Instituto Clodomiro Picado seeks to address with its antivenoms.In a patchy ten-acre tract of grass in Coronado, a hilly exurb northeast of the Costa Rican capital of San José, a weedy horse paddock and corrugated metal stable stand adjacent to a building of pristine laboratories and climate-controlled habitats. Through one door is a necropolis of dead snakes preserved in glass jars arranged helter-skelter on a...…|A deadly shortage of venom antidote has spurred a little-known group of scientists in Costa Rica to action100,000 people die from venomous snakebites each year, a problem the Instituto Clodomiro Picado seeks to address with its antivenoms.In a patchy ten-acre tract of grass in Coronado, a hilly exurb northeast of the Costa Rican capital of San José, a weedy horse paddock and corrugated metal stable stand adjacent to a building of pristine laboratories and climate-controlled habitats. Through one door is a necropolis of dead snakes preserved in glass jars arranged helter-skelter on a...WW…