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SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA

BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Maryn McKenna
Maryn McKenna is an award-winning journalist and author and a recovering newspaper reporter. She writes about public health, medicine and food policy for national magazines and medical journals, and finds emerging diseases strangely exciting.
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SUPERBUG the book

SUPERBUG has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR's Science Friday, CBC's The Current and other radio and TV as well as numerous print and online publications. Find it at Superbugthebook.com.
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    • SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
    • BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service

    disease + public health + culture

    • Abel Pharmboy
    • Aetiology
    • Arkanoid Legent
    • Avian Flu Diary
    • Controversies in HAI Prevention
    • Denialism
    • H5N1
    • Health Affairs
    • Mike The Mad Biologist
    • Neuron Culture
    • Not Exactly Rocket Science
    • NPR Health Desk
    • On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
    • Speakeasy Science
    • The Loom
    • The New Health Dialogue
    • The Pump Handle
    • White Coat Underground

    food policy + animals + agriculture

    • Center for a Livable Future
    • Extending the Cure
    • Fair Food Fight
    • Food Politics
    • GRIST on Food
    • Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
    • Politics of the Plate
    • Save Antibiotics
    • The Ethicurean
    • The Soil Association
    • Trust for Americas Health
    • Union of Concerned Scienists
    • Worms and Germs

    MRSA communities online

    • Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths
    • Helen Gilson's Ca-ORSA community
    • MRSA Resources
    • MRSA Survivors Network
    • MRSA_Support
    • Nile's Project
    • Safe Care Campaign
    • Stop Hospital Infections
    • Stop MRSA Now
    • The Coalition for Patients' Rights
    • University of Chicago MRSA Research Center

    Maryn's stories on MRSA

    • CIDRAP News, Jan. 2010
    • The Ethicurean.com, April 2009
    • Self magazine, Feb 2009
    • ScientificAmerican.com, Jan. 2009
    • CIDRAP News, Oct. 2008
    • Health magazine, March 2008
    • Annals of Emergency Medicine, March 2008
    • Self magazine, Feb. 2007

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