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Maryn McKenna, whose book SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA was published late last month, was invited to write an Op-Ed piece for the Los Angeles Times over the weekend on the growing MRSA crisis.
Here’s the link.
Backing away from the MRSA crisis
The drug-resistant staph is a monster of our own making. It's taking thousands of lives each year and costing billions of dollars in healthcare.
By Maryn McKenna
April 11, 2010
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