{"id":4717,"date":"2016-10-16T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:10:26","slug":"waste-from-pharmaceutical-plants-in-india-and-china-promotes-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4717","title":{"rendered":"Waste from pharmaceutical plants in India and China promotes antibiotic-resistant superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Henry <em>A<\/em>. Waxman and Bill Corr for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">S<\/span>uperbugs, disease-causing microbes that have mutated to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/12\/superbug-antibiotic-resistance-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">resistant to antibiotics<\/a>, are a threat to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people today and many millions tomorrow. These organisms turn curable illnesses such as tuberculosis,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/21\/gonorrhea-antibiotic-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\">gonorrhea<\/a>, and pneumococcal pneumonia into deadly ones. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/10\/14\/superbugs-antibiotic-resistance-india-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Henry A. Waxman and Bill Corr for STAT) Superbugs, disease-causing microbes that have mutated to become resistant to antibiotics,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","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=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}