At least 30 of these viruses can be sexually transmitted. HPV transmission occurs easily among sexual partners. This is evidenced by the fact that at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire a genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.
A farm worker corrals cranberries in a bog during a harvest. Every schoolchild learns that the Pilgrims couldn't have survived life in the New World without the help of the Indians. The tribes taught them which crops to plant. They introduced them to corn and other nutritional mainstays. One of these, the American cranberry, is still part of the classic Thanksgiving feast.
In the 1930s, Milford Beeghly created new hybrids of corn that were more resistant to insects and easier to grow than the original strain. Beeghly pioneered and promoted his methods despite the concerns of farmers and others who argued that crop hybridization was âagainst natureâ and immoral.