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New article! 

11/5/2015

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New article at Quartz: How realistic is “The Walking Dead”? Ranking pop culture’s worst zombie outbreaks.
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New article!

10/28/2015

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In the Washington Post, I write about "antibiotic-free" meat products--what does it mean? What does ‘meat raised without antibiotics’ mean — and why is it important?
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New articles!

10/22/2015

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I've been a bit remiss at posting things here, but three recent articles to note:

Mental Floss.com, article. A Potential New Treatment for Bats with Deadly White-Nose Syndrome. August 2015.

Slate.com, article. Why the United States Is Plagued With Plague. October 2015.

Slate.com, article. America's Ebola panic.  October 2015. 

I'm also quoted in a Gizmodo piece about HIV denial, "The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers." 
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New paper!

7/13/2015

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Epidemiology of necrotizing infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes at an Iowa hospital, part of Ashley O'Brien's Master's project. 
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New article at Mental Floss

7/2/2015

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Have you heard of the 1872 outbreak of horse flu? Most people haven't. I describe the epidemic and its fallout at Mental Floss. 
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New article at The Scientific Parent

6/25/2015

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The Water-borne Vibrio vulnificus Bacteria: What Are the Risks? A primer on the bacterium that's been causing invasive infections in Florida swimmers.
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New article at Mental Floss 

5/28/2015

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My first piece for the site, Call the doctor, not the exorcist: monsters who were actually sick. 
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ASM Distinguished Lecturer 

5/11/2015

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Honored to be selected as an American Society for Microbiology distinguished lecturer for 2015-17. This means that ASM will pay for me to come speak at any ASM branch meetings from mid-2015 to mid-2017. Now who runs the Hawaii branch...?
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New post! 

4/30/2015

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A blog post discussing our new paper: ST398 carriage and infections in farmers, United States. 
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New paper!

4/30/2015

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Online now at Clinical Infectious Diseases, Wardyn SE, Forshey BM, Farina S, Kates AE, Nair R, Quick M, Wu J, Hanson BM, O’Malley S, Shows H, Heywood E, Beane-Freeman LE, Lynch CF, Carrel M, Smith TC. Swine farming is a risk factor for infection with and high prevalence of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clinical Infectious Diseases, in press, 2015.
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