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Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna is an award-winning science and medical writer and author of Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (named one of the top 10 science books of 2004 by Amazon). She currently works as a contributing writer for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and is a media fellow at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and has also studied at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Minneapolis.

Maryn McKenna's Books

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Superbug
Superbug The Fatal Menace of MRSA By: Maryn McKenna
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2011
LURKING 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...
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Beating Back the Devil
Beating Back the Devil On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service By: Maryn McKenna
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: July 28, 2008
IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES. They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the...
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