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Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist and author who specializes in domestic and global public health, health policy and medicine. She writes for Wired.com, Scientific American, the Guardian, SELF, is a regular contributor to the Annals of Emergency Medicine and is the author of "Superbug" and "Beating Back the Devil." Her blog, Superbug, can be found at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/superbug.
CDC: Whether Your Food-Related Illness Gets Investigated Depends on Where You Live
From the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Food Safety Epidemiology Capacity in State Health Departments — United States, 2010
December 23, 2011 / 60(50);1701-1704:
…In 2010, a total of 787 FTEs…
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Food Safety in China, and the Risk to the U.S.
Another week, another food-safety crisis in China. Several news networks — Associated Press, Australian Press and Xinhua — report that 11 people have died and anywhere from 120 to 140 were sickened by contaminated…
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