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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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    • 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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