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MRSA_blog

  1. oh FFS internetz, i was gone from my 'puter for 90 minutes and came back to 72 new emails. slow down, OK?
  2. On SUPERBUG: The undetected epidemic of Chagas disease; is it the new HIV? bit.ly/KSN3Rq
  3. On SUPERBUG: what industrial farming has to do with the devastated oceans bit.ly/MKvUvl (my belated #cfs12 reflections)
  4. On SUPERBUG: That CIA-sponsored fake vaccination campaign to get bin Laden? Now, fresh problems. bit.ly/KDwVkB
  5. On SUPERBUG: We're using up antibiotics faster than ever bit.ly/JhDVbe
  6. On SUPERBUG: mothers, pediatricians, farmers and chefs speak out about antibiotic resistance bit.ly/KsWarZ
  7. On SUPERBUG: Unintended Consequences, Part 37 — or how improving STD tests allowed resistant STDs to spread bit.ly/IpRY9r
  8. On SUPERBUG: Traveling? Take precautions, use repellents, don't catching sleeping sickness and maybe die bit.ly/IquUs2
  9. On SUPERBUG: antibiotics in ethanol, distillers grains, animal feed: how dangerous? who knows? bit.ly/I05MIb
  10. On SUPERBUG: Does minor foodborne illness trigger serious health problems years later? bit.ly/H1X6lW
  11. On SUPERBUG: More on the court order for FDA to examine ag antibiotic use — and what comes next? bit.ly/GRKTRk
  12. On SUPERBUG: Breaking: Judge orders FDA to restart its 35yo attempt to examine, maybe ban "growth promoter" farm drugs bit.ly/GJ4JA0
  13. On SUPERBUG: bats, bugs, booze, birds, blood: wrapping up the #ICEID meeting bit.ly/zATNdI
  14. On SUPERBUG: gastroenteritis deaths increase, esp from C.diff, and illness from imported foods does too bit.ly/znusyc #ICEID
  15. On SUPERBUG: bumper crops of acorns and then mice could make "worst year yet" for Lyme infections bit.ly/wvaDtg #ICEID
  16. On SUPERBUG: From the #ICEID mtg: the story of "pig MRSA" gets even more complicated bit.ly/yj1zYU
  17. On SUPERBUG: The sad story of 3 women who got serious infections from comforting their dying pets bit.ly/z15rGZ
  18. On SUPERBUG: reflecting on the sad flu-MRSA deaths in Maryland bit.ly/zGl4QY
  19. On SUPERBUG: new report on drug-resistant bacteria in meat shows things are getting worse bit.ly/xmeJE0
  20. On SUPERBUG: A sneak peak at a new documentary, RESISTANCE (warning, contains me) bit.ly/zPM9mc