Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Tyvek jumpsuits? Quarantine? Bring it on!
I haven't figured out what I want to do with my summer except for one eight-day stretch--
Dr. Firkins and I have been nominated to represent the college at the Smith-Kilborne Foriegn Animal Disease Program on
Plum Island, New York. Each vet school (there's fewer than 30 in the US and Canada) nominates one faculty member and one student to attend, then I think the Smith-Kilborne people decide what schools they want to invite. So we'll see! If we get to go, I'll be representing a wildlife/conservation medicine perspective amongst a predominanlty agriculture/food animal-focused group.
The island was named "
Plum Island" because of the beautiful plum trees that line its shore, but when I think of an island that's the only place in the country where you can study certain infectious diseases, I can't help but think of
Three Mile Island.
I guess what I mean is, there's a reason they put a major infectious disease lab on an
island.
