Maryn McKenna's Blog, page 2
March 4, 2015
Ebola’s Not Over For Health Care’s Volunteers
Health care workers who caught Ebola while treating its victims in the US and in Africa continue to struggle with poor health and the stigma of the disease.
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February 24, 2015
Resistance: The Movie That Will Make You Care About Antibiotic Misuse
The director of "Resistance," a new documentary about antibiotic over-use in medicine and agriculture, explains why we should be worried that drugs no longer work.
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February 23, 2015
The Poultry Industry Responds to an Activist Farmer
The poultry industry responds to a farmer who let animal activists into his barns, and then filed for whistleblower protection
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February 19, 2015
A Factory Farmer Strikes Back at the Company He Farms For
A factory farmer who let animal-welfare activists film inside his barns files for whistleblower protection so he can keep farming.
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February 16, 2015
Still Fighting Ebola: A View from Liberia’s Front Line
A report from a front-line Ebola fighter working in Liberia shows how much remains to be done to beat the terrifying disease.
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February 5, 2015
How to Fight Superbugs: Start Spending Money
A UK project that raised eyebrows last year with its dire estimate of how many deaths antibiotic resistance will cause returns with a recommendation for global investment in the problem.
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January 31, 2015
The White House 2016 Budget Includes Big Funding for Antibiotic Resistance
The President's 2016 budget asks for ambitious funding to fight antibiotic resistance, and combatting that healthcare peril may be the one thing both parties can agree on.
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January 21, 2015
A New Polio Case in Pakistan and an Unsolved Epidemic
Pakistan records its first polio case in 2015, and may become the planet's last refuge for the crippling disease.
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January 12, 2015
The Long Tail of Ebola: Depressing African Economic Progress
We think of epidemics in terms of illnesses and deaths, but the damage they do to national and household economies could last far longer.
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January 3, 2015
2015 Resolution: Accept that Diseases Hop Borders, Don’t Dismiss Them, and Don’t Panic
In 2014, people over-reacted to Ebola crossing the world, and under-reacted to other diseases that travel. In 2015, we could do better.
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