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Where will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug, that epidemic is already here. * Boing Boing * During her years as a reporter covering the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maryn McKenna grew accustomed to being called `Scary Disease Girl,' the bearer of titillating tales of exotic ailments unlikely to affect most people. McKenna's new book, Superbug, is less deliciously frightening and more just plain scary. * Chicago Tribune * [McKenna] has written a meticulously detailed account of MRSA... hits like a sledgehammer and outlines the past, present and future of the bacteria. * The Washington Examiner * A gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet...A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen. * Kirkus *

“Where will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug , that epidemic is already here.” — Boing Boing

Where will the next major epidemic come from? According to Superbug , that epidemic is already here. -- Boing Boing

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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.

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