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Maryn McKenna is an award-winning journalist and the author of Superbug and Beating Back the Devil. She is a columnist for Wired and writes for the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Smithsonian, Mother Jones, National Geographic, the Guardian, and other publications. She is a TED speaker and a toon meer senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and St. Albans, Maine. toon minder

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This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about joining and working for the EIS, which is like the CIA but with biohazards and diseases. The gore is kept to a minimum and the workings of government are kept to a maximum, which means it can get dull at times. The people outlined in this book are described well, but not well enough that I care to follow their particular career path. I was more interested in how the outbreaks were contained, what the particular epidemic did, etc.

I did learn a lot of interesting stats about listeria and SARS. I may never eat cold cuts again.
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kwskultety | 4 andere besprekingen | Jul 4, 2023 |
The content was interesting, but the writing was a little boring. High in human interest, low on science. Of course, it probably suffers because I read 'The Hot Zone' shortly before it. Hard to follow that one.
 
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JessicaReadsThings | 4 andere besprekingen | Dec 2, 2021 |
I have to admit that sometimes I get conscious consumer fatigue and just buy cheap food at the discount grocery. We're all going to die eventually (though it often seems more imminent these days) so what's the difference between a $1.69 chicken breast family pack and the air chilled locally raised butchered on site chicken at $5.99 from the butcher shop? But then I read books like this and have to remind myself, it's not just what I'm eating, it's supply and demand, supporting causes with my money as well as my tweets. Although, to be honest, reading books like this also make me hate capitalism and lobbyists and science-deniers and the fact that money and profit drive everything.… (meer)
 
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resoundingjoy | Jan 1, 2021 |
An informative, non-technical book about MRSA. Scarey. The author should have added more technical information and statistics, but otherwise interesting reading.
 
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