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2.Which sits approximately twenty-three blocks south and twelve blocks east of where I first delivered this piece on the near north side in Chicago; a distance it takes me an hour and a half to cross.
Superbugs are coming for you!
1.“The superbug incentive,” Ankit Mahadevia, June 16, 2016, Boston Globe. Retrieved November 2, 2016: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/06/16/the-superbug-incentive/GVLeEwKjIiHoeN3zFAeU4O/story.html
2.“Superbug is a wake-up call,” Matthew Wellington, June 17, 2016, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2016/06/17/Superbug-is-a-wake-up-call/stories/201606130014
3.“’Superbug’ found in Illinois meatpacking facility,” Kristofor Husted & Harvest Public Media, June 17, 2016, KBIA. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://kbia.org/post/superbug-found-illinois-meatpacking-facility
4.“Move over Zika: a superbug hits Brazilian beaches,” Katherine Marko, June 17, 2016, The Alternative Daily. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.thealternativedaily.com/move-zika-superbug-hits-brazilian-beaches/
5.“One in three seniors leave hospital with superbug on hands,” June 16, 2016, Newsmax. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Anti-Aging/hospital-infection-senior-superbug/2016/06/16/id/734257/
6.“WHO’s first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious, worldwide threat to public health,” April 30, 2014, Geneva, World Health Organization. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report/en/
7.“Comprehensive Report on the Global State of Autoimmune Diseases Released for National Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month,” March 30, 2010, American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comprehensive-report-on-the-global-state-of-autoimmune-diseases-released-for-national-autoimmune-disease-awareness-month-86187622.html
8.Numbers are based on a 2010 study published in Arthritis Care Res, which estimated diagnoses based on relevant walk-in clinic visits. There is, unfortunately, little funding available to track autoimmune diagnoses any more closely.
9.“The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance,” Donna Jackson Nackazawa, March 18, 2008, Alternet, (an excerpt from Nackazawa’s book of the same name). Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.alternet.org/story/80129/the_autoimmune_epidemic%3A_bodies_gone_haywire_in_a_world_out_of_balance
10.In fact, the research trail for Hernandez only goes as far back as 2012, and appears to originate in a student paper posted online that names as source material a now-removed ehow.com article on hand sanitizers.
11.“Antibiotic use in food animals continues to rise,” Tom Polansek, undated, Scientific American. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antibiotic-use-in-food-animals-continues-to-rise/
12.See the scientific paper, “Gut microbiota, immunity, and disease: a complex relationship,” by Michele M. Kosiewicz, Arin L. Zirnheld, and Pascale Alard in Frontiers in Microbiology. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166766/ For more on this, read the essay “Consumpcyon,” in this volume.
13.“Superbug: An Epidemic Begins,” Katharine Xue, May-June 2014, Harvard Magazine. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/05/superbug
14.“Antimicrobial (drug) resistance,” National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Retrieved November 2, 2016: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/antimicrobialresistance/examples/mrsa/Pages/history.aspx
15.“Antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved November 2, 2016: https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/
Fucking cancer
1.Page 3, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag (New York City: Picador), 1989. This and all other Sontag quotations are taken from this edition.
2.From Neitzsche’s Daybreak, as quoted in Sontag (page 101).
3.This and the following Silverstein quotations appear in “Autoimmunity vs. horror autotoxicus: The struggle for recognition,” Arthur M. Silverstein, 2001, Nature Immunology, Volume 2. Retrieved November 16, 2016: http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v2/n4/full/ni0401_279.html
4.As quoted in Silverstein.
5.Cancer statistics come from the CDC’s 2014 Summary Health Statistics.
The metaphysics of compost
1.“An organic theory of composting,” December 31, 1989, Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 2, 2016: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-31/opinion/op-464_1_compost-pile
2.“Toward a Queer Crip Feminist Politics of Food,” Kim Q. Hall, Summer 2014, PhiloSOPHIA (State University of New York Press: New York). Retrieved November 3, 2016: http://www.academia.edu/7703970/Toward_a_Queer_Crip_Feminist_Politics_of_Food
3.“Human cells make up only half our bodies. A new book explains why,” Jonathan Weiner, August 15, 2016, the New York Times. Retrieved November 3, 2016: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/books/review/i-contain-multitudes-ed-yong.html?_r=3