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Short of seeing a 1918-level or worse pandemic, I’ve little doubt that the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria will be the number one public health story of the next couple of decades.
While MRSA was the big concern 3 or 4 years ago, today we are seeing the rise and geographic spread of NDM-1, extremely drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), along with an expanding array of Carbapenemases – bacteria that are resistant to the Carbapenem class of antibiotics.
Journalist, author, and everybody’s favorite scary disease girl Maryn McKenna produced a terrific book on the subject of antibiotic resistance in 2010, called SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace Of MRSA.
You can read my review of it HERE. Maryn is also the author of Beating Back The Devil, the inside story of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service.
All of which puts Maryn on the top of the list of people you’d want to include in any documentary on antibiotic resistance. As it happens, UJI Films is working on exactly that; a film scheduled to be release later this year called RESISTANCE.
We’ve a bit of a preview this morning, by way of a 4-minute excerpt from the film featuring Maryn. You’ll also find several other short film clips on the resistancethefilm Youtube Channel, as well.
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- Maryn McKenna Video On Disease, Cities, and Our Crowded Future
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- Referral: McKenna Times Four
- McKenna: Man Vs. MRSA
- Referral: McKenna On India’s Denial Of TDR-TB
- Resistant TB: The Limits Of Surveillance & Reporting
- NPR Science Friday: McKenna On Resistant TB
- Referral: Maryn McKenna On Regulatory Obstacles To Fecal Transplants
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- World MRSA Day: October 1st, 2011
- Referral: Maryn McKenna On The Listeria Outbreak
- McKenna Wins 2011 Science In Society Award For Superbug
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- CHP: Review Of NDM-1 In Hong Kong
- Referral: McKenna On Resistant Gonorrhea
- Study: Antimicrobial Prescribing Practices During The 2009 Pandemic
- ECDC Response Plan To Multi-Drug Resistant Gonorrhea
- WHO: Urgent Action Needed On Resistant Gonorrhea
- Referral: McKenna Times Four
- HPA: Healthcare-Associated Infection (HCAI) Survey
- FDA Statement On Azithromycin & Cardiovascular Risks
- NEJM: Cardiovascular Risks Of Taking Azithromycin
- ECDC Comment On Drug Resistant TB In India
- Get Smart About Antibiotics Week
- CDDEP: Mapping Resistance
- NDM-1: One Year Later
- The Global Spread Of Drug Resistant Salmonella
- Study: Prior Antibiotic Use & MRSA In Children
- ECDC: Defining Bacterial Drug Resistance
- IDSA: Educational Guidelines Lower Antibiotic Use
- Going, Going, Gonorrhea
- The Path Of Increased Resistance
- Updating Hong Kong’s Scarlet Fever Outbreak
- When Old Bacteria Learns New Tricks
- Study: Sub-Therapeutic Antibiotic Exposure Drives Resistance
- UK: `New MRSA’ Strain Spreading
- ECDC: Multidrug Resistant Infections Increasing In Europe
- A Health Crisis In Slow Motion
- Referral: McKenna On Resistant Gonorrhea
- EID: Environmental NDM-1 Detected In Vietnam
- Referral: McKenna On Resistant UTIs
- MMWR: NDM-1 Transmission In Rhode Island
- ECDC Response Plan To Multi-Drug Resistant Gonorrhea
- WHO: Urgent Action Needed On Resistant Gonorrhea
- CDC Grand Rounds: Multidrug-Resistant Gonorrhea
- Indonesia: MOH Suspects H5N1 May Be Gaining Antiviral Resistance
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- ECDC Comment On Drug Resistant TB In India
- NEJM: Oseltamivir Resistant H1N1 in Australia
- CIDRAP News: Signs Of Tamiflu Resistant H1N1 Spreading
- WER: Update On Anti-Viral Resistant Influenza
- CDDEP: Mapping Resistance
- ECDC: Risk Assessment On Australia’s Antiviral Resistant H1N1 Cluster
- Australia Reports Cluster Of Antiviral Resistant H1N1
- NDM-1: One Year Later
- The Global Spread Of Drug Resistant Salmonella
- Netherlands: Large Nosocomial KPC Outbreak
- IDSA: Educational Guidelines Lower Antibiotic Use
- Going, Going, Gonorrhea
- Declan Butler On Growing Mosquito Insecticide Resistance
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