By Maryn McKenna
A gripping account of one of the most devastating infectious agents on the planet.MRSA, short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was once considered the exclusive bane of hospitalized patients, who were already weakened by disease or surgery, and hence prey to any infectious organism able to survive and adapt to the array of disease-fighting drugs used in health-care settings. Methicillin is an antibiotic that was first hailed as the successor to penicillin, designed to dispatch the bugs that had grown resistant to the first antibiotic. And so it did—until the bugs outwitted it. In time, strains of MRSA appeared not only in sick patients, but also in healthy people who had never been near a hospital....McKenna suggests that vaccines might be the answer, but it seems a distant hope and too late for the patients whose heartbreaking stories she tells.A meticulously researched, frightening report on a deadly pathogen. (Kirkus Reviews)
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