Maryn McKenna, award-winning science and medical writer and author of "Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA", talks about the continuously changing threat of methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) and what's being done to try to contain this deadly superbug.
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Guest Info
Maryn McKenna’s newsroom nickname is Scary Disease Girl, and she earned it. She has reported from inside a field hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a village on Thailand’s west coast that was erased by the Indian Ocean tsunami, a CDC team investigating the anthrax-letter attacks on Capitol Hill, a graveyard within the Arctic Circle that held victims of the 1918 flu, a malaria hospital in Malawi, and a polio-eradication team in India and much more...
Her first book, BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, was one of Amazon’s Top Science Books in 2004 and was also named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.She has won numerous journalism awards and held fellowships with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the East West Center, the Knight-Wallace Fellows of the University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School and the University of Maryland. She teaches science writing in the U.S. and Asia.She lives in Minneapolis and Atlanta, and occasionally in Maine and France, and almost always has latex gloves and a face-mask somewhere close.
