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Lisa M. Krieger

Inverness, San Francisco, San Jose, United States

Science, Medicine Writer and Water Reporter at The Mercury News

Science, Medicine Writer and Water Reporter at East Bay Times

Science, medicine and water reporter at The San Jose Mercury News/Bay Area News Group publications. I cover the Wow beat.

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  • 2 months ago | military.com | Lisa M. Krieger

    This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Some of the U.S. military’s most defining technologies have nothing to do with missiles, tanks, guns, and other deadly weaponry. While important in war, these innovations—from duct tape and blood banks to GPS— ultimately play a far larger role on the home front, improving everyday lives.

  • 2 months ago | lassennews.com | Lisa M. Krieger

    Publisher’s note: This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 edition of the Lassen County Times. More than a year after a young wolf was shot and killed on a cold winter day in a wild and windswept corner of California, its death remains unsolved. Evidence has gone stale. No witnesses have stepped forward.

  • Feb 18, 2025 | postguam.com | Lisa M. Krieger

    Henrietta Burroughs was so deeply devoted to her 1991 Dodge Dynasty that she saved its floor mats to honor the car’s two decades of service.

  • Feb 9, 2025 | columbian.com | Lisa M. Krieger

    News / Health / Health Wire SAN JOSE, Calif. — When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly changed into a dangerous new mutant, how would we know? Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage. While wastewater already is being tested for the presence of bird flu, the genetic sequence of the...

  • Feb 8, 2025 | americanmilitarynews.com | Lisa M. Krieger

    When the H5N1 bird flu virus jumps from animals into people, it hits a dead end. Missing the key genes that would help it infect humans, it isn’t causing a pandemic. But if the virus suddenly changed into a dangerous new mutant, how would we know? Experts say our cities have a valuable tool that can help us keep better tabs on the virus: sewage.

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Lisa M. Krieger
Lisa M. Krieger @lisamkrieger
3 May 25

RT @mercnewsguild: Statement from The Mercury News Guild's leadership on MediaNews Group's acquisition of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat: ht…

Lisa M. Krieger
Lisa M. Krieger @lisamkrieger
24 Jan 25

RT @JohnCendpts: The latest of several reports about the Trump admin putting HHS staff on lockdown. Going quiet on bird flu, etc etc. Thou…

Lisa M. Krieger
Lisa M. Krieger @lisamkrieger
12 Jan 25

Lots of changes in store for Point Reyes National Seashore. My article, written yesterday after a contentious community meeting, for the magazine Bay Nature. https://t.co/EBG372JHKq