{"id":3981,"date":"2016-05-28T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/28\/superbug-resistant-to-last-resort-antibiotic-found-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:40:10","slug":"superbug-resistant-to-last-resort-antibiotic-found-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/28\/superbug-resistant-to-last-resort-antibiotic-found-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotic found in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f99683%2f19f1cf8e08844f72ba0256e2eabefbc6\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/_Z_Ggb7uearyC9R9Ks9nBkTH7WI=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F99683%2F19f1cf8e08844f72ba0256e2eabefbc6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Superbug+resistant+to+last-resort+antibiotic+found+in+the+United+States&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F27%2Fantibiotic-resistant-bacteria-in-united-states%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F27%2Fantibiotic-resistant-bacteria-in-united-states%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For the first time, a United States patient has been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort treatment, scientists said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The patient \u2014 a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania \u2014 has recovered. But health officials fear that if the resistance spreads to other bacteria, the country may soon see supergerms impervious to all known antibiotics.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/02\/19\/superbug-outbreak-ucla\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">&#8216;Superbug&#8217; outbreak at LA hospital linked to 2 deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently,&#8221; Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during an appearance in Washington. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/27\/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-in-united-states\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/antibiotics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Antibiotics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bacteria\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Bacteria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/medicine\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Medicine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/health\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Health<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/science\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Science<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/WLDDrKsQnTs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, a United States patient has been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort treatment, scientists said Thursday. The patient \u2014 a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania \u2014 has recovered. But health officials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/28\/superbug-resistant-to-last-resort-antibiotic-found-in-the-united-states\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}