Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA /
Maryn McKenna.
- 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
- New York : Free Press, 2010.
- xiii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-254) and index.
The first alert -- The cloud babies -- The silent attack -- The puzzle pieces -- The biggest thing since AIDS -- The flood rising -- Gone without warning -- The foe on the field -- Prison, the perfect incubator -- Into the food chain -- Soap, the wonder cure -- The end of antibiotics -- The epidemics converging.
McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.