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News Round-Up: Food, Foodborne Illness, And Antibiotic Resistance In Food

OK, still catching up. Today: food, foodborne illness, and antibiotic use and resistance in food — lots of news in a multi-item rundown. (Under normal circumstances, I’d give each of these items a post of its own; but since they ...

Transparency Unlocked: More New Saudi Coronavirus Cases Reported Quickly

In my last post 36 hours ago, I raised questions about Saudi Arabia’s apparent delay in reporting new cases of the novel coronavirus that has been causing low-level unease since last summer. (For the full history of that, check these ...

New Diseases and National Transparency: Who Is Measuring Up?

A new avian flu, H7N9, is emerging in China. In Saudi Arabia, seven cases of a mysterious coronovirus have just been reported -- after five of the people had already died. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna addresses the issue of ...

New Diseases And National Transparency: Who Is Measuring Up?

I’m still catching up on all the news that happened during the weeks I was away, and I had a food-policy post just about set to go today. And then this happened. I opened my morning mail to find a ...

Industrial Slaughter, Antibiotic Use and Unhealthy Meat: Ted Conover in Harper’s

I don’t often recommend print magazines here, because I figure they already have their own megaphone, and whatever power we at Wired have to push along other writers, I’d rather use to promote bloggers who might not have high traffic. ...

News From The Road: No Drugs, Few Strategies, But A Little Good News On Antibiotic Resistance

So, hi, constant readers. Sorry, didn’t mean to disappear for quite that long. I’ve been on the road, first teaching for a week at the University of Wisconsin as their Science Writer in Residence, and then in New York to ...

The New Bird Flu, and How to Read the News About It

Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna gets to the bottom of the scary new bird flu emerging in China and tells you how to keep up with the new information.

Gene Sequencing Pinpoints Antibiotic Resistance Moving From Livestock to Humans

A new study of Danish farmers and their livestock uses genetic sequencing to show that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections travel from animal to human. Maryn McKenna describes the evidence.

‘Catastrophic Threat’: UK Government Calls Antibiotic Resistance a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

On the heels of the director of the US Centers for Disease Control declaring emerging antibiotic resistance a "nightmare," the UK's Chief Medical Officer released a report in which she calls resistance a "catastrophic threat" that poses a national security ...

‘We Have a Limited Window of Opportunity’: CDC Warns of Resistance ‘Nightmare’

It's not normal for a top federal health official to deploy a word such as "nightmare," or warn: "We have a very serious problem, and we need to sound an alarm." But on Tuesday, the director the CDC said both ...