{"id":3557,"date":"2016-07-15T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2016-07-15T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:38:37","slug":"listen-the-superbugs-are-winning-the-battle-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: The superbugs are winning the battle against us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meg Tirrell and Luke Timmerman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>This is totally sleeper phase right now \u2026 you want to get your arms around it before it really wakes up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\">That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\/about\/directors\/biography\/pages\/biography.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>, head of the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He\u2019s talking about the scariest new threat in one of the biggest public health problems of our time. The threat:\u00a0a deadly new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/05\/27\/superbug-antimicrobial-resistance-explainer\/\" target=\"_blank\">superbug<\/a> that\u2019s just starting to surface. The\u00a0problem: the rise of\u00a0antibiotic resistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/14\/superbugs-antibiotic-resistance-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"danger-zone\">\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meg Tirrell and Luke Timmerman for STAT) This is totally sleeper phase right now \u2026 you want to get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}