Cockroaches may transmit food poisoning, cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. A German cockroach can survive a month or more without food, but less than two weeks without water. Secretary Glickman's Ag Advisory Board Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman announced members of the newly-created National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board. We congratulate Dr. Ann Vidaver, Head, University of Nebraska Plant Pathology department, as one of thirty members nominated to this prestigious panel. Members were selected after USDA solicited nominations from more than 600 organizations as part of a nationwide search that produced more than 400 nominees.
Terms range from one to three years.