The microbe I choose is Leptospira interrogans
A. You must find one news article on your chosen microbe published in the last 12 months (January 2023 – present) in a main stream, media-outlet based, mass-distributed news source where the general public (even Grandma or Aunt Sally) gets their daily news. This news article will be your main reference. Some examples of main-stream news sources would be from CNN, Fox News, BBC, ABC News, NY Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Food Safety News, etc. You must read for understanding, then tell us about the news report in your discussion. You must write a review of the news article contents, discuss what type of microorganism it is, and if the organism is in nature or is used in industry or research or causes disease. If it causes disease you must discuss transmission, increasing incidence, factors contributing to the spread of the organism, lab culturing, etc.
B. You may use government-based or other scholarly references only as secondary information, to explain details missing from your news article above, such as, what kind of organism it is, how the organism affects us, or follow-up information not known at the time of the news release but has been provided since that time.
C. Your discussion should be well-written, in your own words, paraphrasing from your news article (and credible academic sources). You may not directly quote from your sources; minimum elaboration on the topic of a minimum of 300 words and maximum of 400 words.
D. You must also cite your news article (and credible academic sources) with parenthetical in-text citations, and provide full end ref information in APA 7th Edition format.