Klebsiella
lborkowski | August 19, 2011A few of the recent pieces I've liked (or, in the case of the first item, found horribly disturbing but important):
Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Ringing the Warning Bell: Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella
J. Malcolm Garcia in Guernica: Smoke Screen ("In Afghanistan, the U.S. military disposes of garbage--computers, motorbikes, TVs, shoes, even human feces--in open burn pits. Are toxic clouds from these sites making everyone sick?" Bonus: Celeste is quoted in the article.)
The New York Times' Room for Debate: Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor?
Helen Branswell at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis…
mpendergrast | June 21, 2010Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion.
The origin of the book goes back to an email I got in 2004 from my old high school and college friend, Andy Vernon, who wrote that I should consider writing the history of the EIS. I emailed back to say that I was honored, but what was the EIS? I had never heard of it. I knew Andy worked on tuberculosis at the CDC, but I didn't know that he had been a state-based EIS officer from 1978…