{"id":8893,"date":"2017-12-10T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2017-12-10T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T13:56:34","slug":"diphtheria-what-exactly-is-it-and-why-is-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8893","title":{"rendered":"Diphtheria: What Exactly Is It &#8230; And Why Is It Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>In the first century, a doctor called Aretaeus of Cappadocia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/sabinet\/academ\/2009\/00000041\/00000004\/art00002?crawler=true\">described<\/a>\u00a0the rotting smell of &#8220;Egyptian ulcers.&#8221; Ancient Chinese medical literature mentions a disease\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/europepmc.org\/abstract\/med\/11618866\">called<\/a>&#8220;children-killing carbuncle.&#8221; In 17th century Spain there were references to an illness known as &#8220;the strangler.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2017\/12\/08\/569462246\/diphtheria-why-is-it-back-and-what-exactly-is-it\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell for NPR) In the first century, a doctor called Aretaeus of Cappadocia\u00a0described\u00a0the rotting smell of &#8220;Egyptian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","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=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8894,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}