{"id":4958,"date":"2016-11-07T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2016-11-07T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:43:08","slug":"health-officials-find-first-cases-of-new-superbug-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Health officials find first cases of new superbug in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">J<\/span>ust five months after federal health officials asked hospitals and physicians to be on the lookout\u00a0for an often-fatal, antibiotic-resistant fungus called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/29\/yeast-infection-hospitals-candida\/\" target=\"_blank\">Candida auris<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup>, 13 cases have been reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. It is the first time that the fungus, which is easily misidentified in lab tests as a more common candida yeast infection, has been found in the US, and four of the first seven patients with it have died. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/11\/04\/superbug-us-candida-auris\/\" 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><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 Sharon Begley for STAT) Just five months after federal health officials asked hospitals and physicians to be on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","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\/4958","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}