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Superbug - The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Paperback)
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Superbug - The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Paperback)
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List price R477
Loot Price R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
You Save R52 (11%)
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LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying
pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can
track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it.
That pathogen is MRSA--methicillin-resistant "Staphyloccocus
aureus"--and "Superbug "is the first book to tell the story of its
shocking spread and the alarming danger it poses to us all.
Doctors long thought that MRSA was confined to hospitals and
clinics, infecting almost exclusively those who were either already
ill or old. But through remarkable reporting, including hundreds of
interviews with the leading researchers and doctors tracking the
deadly bacterium, acclaimed science journalist Maryn McKenna
reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance--how it has
overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated
agriculture and livestock, moving inexorably into the food chain.
Taking readers into the medical centers where frustrated physicians
must discard drug after drug as they struggle to keep patients
alive, she discloses an explosion of cases that demonstrate how
MRSA is growing more virulent, while evolving resistance to
antibiotics with astonishing speed. It may infect us at any time,
no matter how healthy we are; it is carried by a stunning number of
our household pets; and it has been detected in food animals from
cows to chickens to pigs.
With the sensitivity of a novelist, McKenna portrays the emotional
and financial devastation endured by MRSA's victims, vividly
describing the many stealthy ways in which the pathogen overtakes
the body and the shock and grief of parents whose healthy children
were felled by infection in just hours. Through dogged detective
work, she discloses the unheard warnings that predicted the current
crisis and lays bare the flaws that have allowed MRSA to rage out
of control: misplaced government spending, inadequate public health
surveillance, misguided agricultural practices, and vast overuse of
the few precious drugs we have left.
Empowering readers with the knowledge they need for self-defense,
"Superbug "sounds an alarm: MRSA has evolved into a global
emergency that touches almost every aspect of modern life. It is,
as one deeply concerned researcher tells McKenna, "the biggest
thing since AIDS."
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