Maryn McKenna
Ars Technica
United States
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The bird flu outbreak has taken an ominous turn
It's moved to mammals; now the poultry industry needs new measures to stop its spread. → Read More
When will the pandemic truly be ‘over’?
Everyone wants to be done with Covid. But no single milestone will signal the end of the virus → Read More
A Global Food Crisis Is Not Imminent—Yet
The complexities of how drought and war affect global supplies. → Read More
Antibiotic Use in US Farm Animals Was Falling. Now It’s Not.
An initiative meant to stop deadly superbugs and improve animal welfare has stalled out. → Read More
To help people with long COVID, scientists need to define it
Patients with the perplexing syndrome have reported 200 different symptoms. → Read More
After Devastating Floods Comes a Fresh Scourge: Infectious Goo
Molds and fungi trigger allergies and sickness, and nobody is tracking it. → Read More
As COVID cases rise, so do hospital-related infections
Overcrowding from COVID care is allowing infections to rise again. → Read More
Flu Season and Covid-19 Are About to Collide. Now What?
Hospitals in the US are already stressed. Now, they must brace for a wave of flu patients needing more beds, lab tests, and ventilators. → Read More
How ProMED Crowdsourced the Arrival of Covid-19 and SARS
The low-tech site run by health experts collects reports of new diseases in real time. They've got a shoestring budget—and a stunning track record. → Read More
Amid Coronavirus Fears, a Mask Shortage Could Spread Globally
Most of the world's supply of masks and respirators comes from China, and a supply chain gap poses a risk to everyday health care beyond the viral epidemic. → Read More
Farm Animals Are the Next Big Antibiotic Resistance Threat
Bacteria harvested from pigs and chickens are developing resistance to numerous antibiotics at an alarming rate. → Read More
The Death of a Patient and the Future of Fecal Transplants
Poop transplants work so well against some infections that they’re becoming a first line of defense. But two bad incidents raise questions about what's next. → Read More
The Terrifying Unknowns of an Exotic Invasive Tick
The Asian longhorned tick showed up in the US last year and has flourished in unexpected places. And it's biting humans. → Read More
The antibiotics industry is broken—but there’s a fix
Attempts to develop new antibiotics are failing because the projects aren't profitable. → Read More
The Rise of Right-Wing Nationalism Is Jeopardizing the World's Health
And nowhere have attitudes toward public health changed more sharply than in the United States under President Trump. → Read More
The True Dollar Cost of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
Medical responders spend millions of tax dollars handling disease outbreaks that could have been prevented—with vaccines. → Read More
Colonialists Are Coming For Blood — Literally
By Maryn McKenna During the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014, medical workers collected hundreds of thousands of samples of blood from victims and those presumed to be infected, in an effort to stem an epidemic that eventually took more than 11,000 lives. After that outbreak subsided, most of the samples were believed to have been … → Read More
Colonialists Are Coming For Blood—Literally
The latest way in which wealthy countries are profiting off developing nations is by harvesting useful genetic samples without paying a cent. → Read More
To Get Antibiotics Off Your Plate, Vote With Your Wallet
Obama-era regulation was supposed to curtail livestock antibiotics. But consumers are pushing Perdue, McDonalds, Tyson, Walmart, and more to change. → Read More
A New Disease Is Testing Us for the Next Global Epidemic
As perplexing to diagnose as it is to treat, acute flaccid myelitis may foreshadow whether our surveillance systems could uncover a severe epidemic. → Read More