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Author - Maryn Mckenna
Maryn McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA’s relentless advance—how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and livestock, moving inexorably into the food chain. It may infect us at any time. McKenna portrays the devastation endured by MRSA’s victims, vividly describing the ways in which the pathogen overtakes the body and the shock and grief of parents whose healthy children were felled by infection in just hours. She discloses the flaws that have allowed MRSA to rage out of control: misplaced government spending, inadequate public health surveillance, misguided agricultural practices, and vast overuse of the few precious drugs we have left.
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Maryn McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA’s relentless advance—how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and livestock, moving inexorably into the food chain. It may infect us at any time. McKenna portrays the devastation endured by MRSA’s victims, vividly describing the ways in which the pathogen overtakes the body and the shock and grief of parents whose healthy children were felled by infection in just hours. She discloses the flaws that have allowed MRSA to rage out of control: misplaced government spending, inadequate public health surveillance, misguided agricultural practices, and vast overuse of the few precious drugs we have left.
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