by Zoë Pollock
Maryn McKenna highlights the research gap for MRSA, or Methicillin Resistant Staphyoloccus Aureus:
For every death from AIDS, the US federal research establishment awards approximately $69,000 in grant funds. And for every death from MRSA, it awards $570. … MRSA, let’s remember, kills an estimated 19,000 Americans a year: more than HIV, and more than pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, H. influenzae and group A Streptococcus combined.
This piece from March scared me enough into washing my hands religiously after going to the gym.
(Graph via Megan McArdle.)
The Dish 