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In case you missed the announcement, Maryn Mckenna, blogger, contributing writer for CIDRAP, and author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA will be interviewed today at noon today (EST) by Reuter’s Health executive editor Ivan Oransky.
A conversation with Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
May 12, 2010 15:17 EDT
Despite the many successes of antibiotics, researchers have known since the advent of penicillin in the 1940s that bacteria and humankind would always be locked in an arms race. Nowhere is this more clear today than in the story of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, the deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that causes infections such as blood poisoning and pneumonia.
MRSA is one of a group of drug resistant bacteria that are a major problems in hospitals around the world, and the subject of Maryn McKenna’s Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA. 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.
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What can be done? Join us at noon Eastern Thursday for a conversation between McKenna and Reuters Health executive editor Ivan Oransky. We’ll look at the current status of the epidemic, what drug companies are — and aren’t — doing to fight it, and what you can do to protect yourself. You’ll have a chance to ask questions.
From the U.S., call 1-866-800-8648. Outside of the U.S., call 1-617-614-2702. The passcode is 42612274.
