Maryn Mckenna: 3 books
Superbug
The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it. That pathogen is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus—and Superbug is the first book to...
Plucked
Chicken, Antibiotics, and How Big Business Changed the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity—and human health threat—uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again.
What...
Beating Back the Devil
On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening.
They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries...