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Superbug : The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn McKenna (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFree Press
ISBN-101416557288
ISBN-139781416557289
eBay Product ID (ePID)102929043
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameSuperbug : the Fatal Menace of Mrsa
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
SubjectLife Sciences / Microbiology, Modern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, General, Infectious Diseases
TypeTextbook
AuthorMaryn Mckenna
Subject AreaScience, History, Medical
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-037793
Reviews“During her years as a reporter covering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maryn McKenna grew accustomed to being called ‘Scary Disease Girl,’ the bearer of titillating tales of exotic ailments unlikely to affect most people. McKenna’s new book, Superbug , is less deliciously frightening and more just plain scary.� Chicago Tribune, "A well described and documented narrative of an important emerging infectious disease which goes behind the tabloid headlines to show the tragedy and toll of a frightening illness and a public health challenge."- Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Vice President for Global Health and?Director of the Emory Global Health Institute,?Emory University, former Director, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Like a modern-day Rachel Carson, Maryn McKenna sounds a powerful alarm about the insurgency of a deadly infection lurking in our schools, our gyms and even our food.' Antibiotics are losing their life-saving powers because of our injudicious use that has helped spawn these increasingly invincible pathogens.' By connecting the dots,?Superbug'may give us the early warning we need to prevent an uncontrollable epidemic."- Shelley A. Hearne, DrPH,Managing Director, Pew Health Group, The Pew Charitable Trusts, "Maryn McKenna tracks the harrowing biography of MRSA with all the skills of a first-rate investigative journalist.'Superbugreads like a thriller and is presented in a nuanced and eloquent prose that is as infectious as the microbe it details."-Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, The University of Michigan; author ofWhen Germs Travel, "A gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet...A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen." Kirkus, "Where will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug , that epidemic is already here." - Boing Boing, "[McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSA… hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria." - The Washington Examiner, "During her years as a reporter covering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maryn McKenna grew accustomed to being called 'Scary Disease Girl,' the bearer of titillating tales of exotic ailments unlikely to affect most people. McKenna's new book, Superbug , is less deliciously frightening and more just plain scary." - Chicago Tribune, A gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet...A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen., During her years as a reporter covering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maryn McKenna grew accustomed to being called 'Scary Disease Girl,' the bearer of titillating tales of exotic ailments unlikely to affect most people. McKenna's new book, Superbug , is less deliciously frightening and more just plain scary., “Where will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug , that epidemic is already here.� Boing Boing, 'Maryn McKenna combines her talent for remarkable storytelling with compellingly detailed, breathtaking science writing. A first-rate work!?- Paul Offit, MD, Chief of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; author ofAutism's False Prophets, eoeA gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet...A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen.e, [McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSA... hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria., eoe[McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSAe hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria.e, eoeWhere will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug , that epidemic is already here.e, “[McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSA& hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria.� The Washington Examiner, "A gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet...A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen." - Kirkus, "Where will the next major epidemic come from? According toSuperbug, that epidemic is already here." Boing Boing, "[McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSAhellip; hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria." The Washington Examiner, eoeDuring her years as a reporter covering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maryn McKenna grew accustomed to being called e~Scary Disease Girl,e(tm) the bearer of titillating tales of exotic ailments unlikely to affect most people. McKennae(tm)s new book, Superbug , is less deliciously frightening and more just plain scary.e, “A gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet...A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen.� Kirkus, [McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSA… hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria., Where will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug , that epidemic is already here.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal616.9/297
SynopsisLURKING 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 tell the story of its shocking spread and the alarming danger it poses to us all. Doctors long thought that MRSA was confined to hospitals and clinics, infecting almost exclusively those who were either already ill or old. But through remarkable reporting, including hundreds of interviews with the leading researchers and doctors tracking the deadly bacterium, acclaimed science journalist 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. Taking readers into the medical centers where frustrated physicians must discard drug after drug as they struggle to keep patients alive, she discloses an explosion of cases that demonstrate how MRSA is growing more virulent, while evolving resistance to antibiotics with astonishing speed. It may infect us at any time, no matter how healthy we are; it is carried by a stunning number of our household pets; and it has been detected in food animals from cows to chickens to pigs. With the sensitivity of a novelist, McKenna portrays the emotional and financial devastation endured by MRSA's victims, vividly describing the many stealthy 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. Through dogged detective work, she discloses the unheard warnings that predicted the current crisis and lays bare 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. Empowering readers with the knowledge they need for self-defense, Superbug sounds an alarm: MRSA has evolved into a global emergency that touches almost every aspect of modern life. It is, as one deeply concerned researcher tells McKenna, "the biggest thing since AIDS."
LC Classification NumberQR201.S68M45 2010
