“Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings,” he said at the ceremony. “It is a duty to stay close to victims and guarantee their rights.” Urbani” — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“Food animals also get antibiotics for “growth promotion,” a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming. Since the 1950s, when two pharma company scientists discovered that feeding chicks the waste products from drug manufacturing made them put on weight much faster, many U.S. farmers have been giving tiny doses of antibiotics to… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share
“Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain, dubbed USA300–0114.… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings,” he said at the ceremony. “It is a duty to stay close to victims and guarantee… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“She was in charge of the 'red team,' the group taking blood samples. (The group collecting urine to check pesticide exposure levels called themselves… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“Jails and prisons are unique medical ecosystems. Many of the people who end up there are already in shaky health from drug use, marginal… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
“Staph colonization is remarkable. There is no other disease-causing bacterium that is carried, without causing infection, by such a substantial slice of the population.… — Maryn McKenna Copy Share Image
