Hugh Pennington

Hugh Pennington’s longest running hobby is collecting flies. Have Bacteria Won? has just been published.

In the LRB Archive:

• Biting Habits · 18 February 2016

• Bug-Affairs · 6 January 2011

• Beware Bad Smells: Florence Nightingale · 4 December 2008

  • Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge

• Disasters and Disease: The Dangerous Dead · 5 June 2008

• Short Cuts: Bluetongue · 21 February 2008

• Wash Your Hands: Bugs · 15 November 2007

  • Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
  • Investigation into Outbreaks of ‘Clostridium difficile’ at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

• In the Chocolate: Cadbury's Big Mistake · 2 August 2007

• The Problem with Biodiversity: Culex molestus and Culex pipiens · 10 May 2007

• Big Biology: DNA sequencing · 8 February 2007

• Lethal Specks: polonium · 14 December 2006

• Then came the Hoover: The Allergy Epidemic · 22 June 2006

  • Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady by Mark Jackson

• Don’t pick your nose: Staphylococcus aureus · 15 December 2005

• If H5N1 Evolves: Planning for Bird Flu · 23 June 2005

• Two Spots and a Bubo: use soap and water · 21 April 2005

  • Return of the Black Death: The World’s Greatest Serial Killer by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan
  • The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year by Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote
  • Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease by Wendy Orent

• Wandability: supermarkets · 18 November 2004

  • Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman
  • Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
  • Food Policy Old and New edited by Simon Maxwell and Rachel Slater

• Why can’t doctors be more scientific?: The Great MMR Disaster · 8 July 2004

• Phrenic Crush: The rise and rise of tuberculosis · 5 February 2004

  • The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the ‘New’ Tuberculosis edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

• Can you close your eyes without falling over?: Symptoms of Syphilis · 11 September 2003

  • Pox: Genius, Madness and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden

• Too much fuss?: The Sars virus · 5 June 2003

• Smallpox Scares: Bioterrorism · 5 September 2002

• Woolsorters’ Disease: the history of anthrax · 29 November 2001

• Myrtle Street: The Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry · 8 March 2001

  • Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry Report by Michael Redfern and Jean Keeling
  • The Inquiry into the Management of Care of Children Receiving Complex Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary: Interim Report: Removal and Retention of Human Material
  • Report of the Independent Review Group on the Retention of Organs at Post-Mortem
  • The Removal, Retention and Use of Human Organs and Tissue from Post-Mortem Examination

• The English Disease: Who’s to blame for BSE? · 14 December 2000

  • The BSE Inquiry by Lord Phillips et al

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