"We stand today on the threshold of the post-antibiotic era, in the earliest days of a time when simple s ... will kill people once again. In fact, they already are. People are dying of infections again, because of a phenomenon called antibiotic resistance."
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Maryn McKenna
(born 1959) is an American journalist and science writer, specializing in , , and . After graduating with an A.B. from and an M.S. in journalism from , she worked as a newspaper reporter from 1985 to 2006. From 1995 to 2006 she was a science/medical writer for ' and was the world's only reporter assigned to full-time coverage of the . She has written for ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', and '. She received the 2013 Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences, the 20
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