Maryn McKenna

(1959) Journalist

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Maryn McKenna is a journalist.

Quick Facts About Maryn McKenna

Born: January 22, 1959
Profession: Journalist

About Maryn McKenna

journalist and author; expert in public health, global health, and food policy... | Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015.

Quotes by Maryn McKenna

“Food animals also get antibiotics for “growth promotion,” a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of…

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“Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain,…

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Bacteria

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“Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings,” he said at the ceremony. “It is a duty to stay close to victims…

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Dignity

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“She was in charge of the 'red team,' the group taking blood samples. (The group collecting urine to check pesticide exposure levels…

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“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug…

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Drug use

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“Staph colonization is remarkable. There is no other disease-causing bacterium that is carried, without causing infection, by such a substantial slice of…

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