Momma's Famous!

Well, sort of. If you count that she was quoted twice in an article. Remember when I was whining about work being so busy? A reporter from Newsweek tagged along with one of my projects and wrote an article about it.

Newsweek.com
Monday, August 3, 2009

The Curious Case of the Calamitous Cannabis

At a camp sponsored by the CDC, kids (and our intrepid reporter) learn to be disease detectives.
By Anne Underwood Newsweek Web Exclusive

Start with grizzly slides of gangrenous limbs and feet swollen with fungus-filled nodules. For good measure, add some photos of foot-long
guinea worms and eyes running with pus. Then throw in tips from real scientists on how to track disease outbreaks and unravel their mysterious causes. How much more fun could you possibly have at summer camp? I, at least, am having a rollicking good time as a visiting journalist at Disease Detective Camp, now in its fifth year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In my own day, summer camp meant sleeping in cabins, canoeing on the lake, and guzzling bug juice. Today, it's equally likely to mean an intensive workshop at the Orlando Ballet, space camp at NASA, or secret-agent camp at Pali Adventures. But Disease Detective Camp has a unique mission--to get kids interested in careers in public health. And if you think that sounds unlikely, consider this: high school juniors and seniors have come from as far as Utah and the Netherlands to participate. Gaining admission here is only slightly easier than getting into Harvard. "We had 514 applicants this year for 52 spaces," says coordinator Trudi Ellerman. . . .

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My Summer at the CDC’s Disease Detective Camp from Newsweek - Health