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Donald G. McNeil Jr.

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Self Description

December 2011: "Donald G. McNeil Jr. is a science and health reporter specializing in plagues and pestilences. He covers diseases of the world's poor, AIDS, malaria, avian flu, SARS, mad cow disease and so on..."

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Relationships

Role	Name	Type	Last Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present)	New York Times	Source	Dec 26, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present)	University of California - Berkeley (UC Berkeley)	Organization	Dec 27, 2011

Articles and Resources

Date	Fairness.com Resource	Read it at:
Dec 26, 2011	Debate Persists on Deadly Flu Made Airborne QUOTE: The discovery has led advisers to the United States government, which paid for the research, to urge that the details be kept secret and not published in scientific journals to prevent the work from being replicated by terrorists, hostile governments or rogue scientists. Journal editors are taking the recommendation seriously, even though they normally resist any form of censorship.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2009	Aids: Role of Gay Men in Spreading Virus Is Ignored in Africa, Study Finds (Global Update) QUOTE: The role of gay sex in the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS in Africa has been long ignored...	New York Times
Jun 22, 2009	Global Health: Discrimination in Visa Laws Poses Risk to Those With AIDS, Rights Group Says QUOTE: About a third of the world’s countries limit the right of people with H.I.V. to enter or stay, even if their disease is under control with drugs. Some restrict their access to health care.	New York Times
May 18, 2009	Global Update AIDS: Questions Help Find AIDS Patients Who Are Vulnerable to Drug Resistance QUOTE: In Africa, AIDS patients rarely get viral load testing to see whether they are developing dangerous resistance to their first-line drugs. The testing, routine in wealthy countries, is just too expensive and complex.	New York Times
Nov 04, 2007	The Basics: A Sanitation Crisis That’s No Joke QUOTE: According to the World Health Organization, 40 percent of the globe, or 2.6 billion people, have no access to hygienic toilets. They must use latrines, outhouses or buckets — or simply the bushes or rivers nearby.	New York Times
Oct 09, 2007	Distribution of Nets Splits Malaria Fighters QUOTE: Villages like Maendeleo are at the center of a debate that has split malaria fighters: how to distribute mosquito nets.	New York Times
Sep 10, 2007	Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain QUOTE: The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. Nor do another 1.4 million with late-stage AIDS. For other causes of lingering pain — burns, car accidents, gunshots, diabetic nerve damage, sickle-cell disease and so on — it issues no estimates but believes that millions go untreated.	New York Times
Aug 19, 2005	M.R.I.'s Strong Magnets Cited in Accidents QUOTE: As the number of magnetic resonance imaging scanners in the country has soared... careless accidents have become more frequent. Some have caused serious injuries and even death... Although there are ways to make scanning rooms safer... the measures are not required by law or the medical profession...	New York Times
Jul 15, 2005	Review Finds Scientists With Ties to Companies QUOTE: Forty-four government scientists have violated ethics rules on collaborating with pharmaceutical companies...	New York Times
Nov 30, 2004	Videotapes Show Grisly Scenes at Kosher Slaughterhouse QUOTE: An animal-rights group released grisly undercover videotapes today showing cows in a major kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa staggering and bellowing in seeming agony long after their throats were cut.	New York Times
Aug 27, 2004	Reports Criticize Medics for Overlooking Abuses QUOTE: The failures of Army medical staff members to prevent and report torture...shows the need for more investigation and better training, medical ethicists and the Army itself said yesterday.	New York Times
Dec 04, 2002	Study Suggests Mercury in Vaccine Was Not Harmful QUOTE: ...the issue (of mercury in vaccines) is important to parents of children who did receive thimerosal-containing vaccines as infants and are now autistic.	New York Times
Nov 29, 2001	AIDS and Death Hold No Sting for Fatalistic Men At African Bar QUOTE: The women are so powerless that dumping even a violent lover can be difficult. There are few jobs here, and men are expected to give their girlfriends money that helps support their parents and siblings.	New York Times
Nov 05, 2001	Patents or Poverty? A New Debate Over Poor AIDS Care in Africa QUOTE:	New York Times
Feb 13, 2001	Oxfam Presses to Make Drugs Cheaper for Poor Countries "Oxfam, the influential charity, began a campaign today to force multinational drug companies to cut the prices of their live- saving drugs to poor nations....[it] accused the companies and rich nations of 'waging an undeclared drugs war' against poor nations by keeping drug prices high and by using trade sanctions to protect the patent treaties that give companies 20-year monopolies on their drugs."	New York Times

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