{"id":151768,"date":"2022-12-03T21:24:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-just-caught-bacteria-using-a-never-before-seen-trick-to-avoid-antibiotics"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T03:24:34","slug":"scientists-just-caught-bacteria-using-a-never-before-seen-trick-to-avoid-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-just-caught-bacteria-using-a-never-before-seen-trick-to-avoid-antibiotics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Caught Bacteria Using a Never-Before-Seen Trick to Avoid Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ERQFu2gEepU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have just caught bacteria sidestepping antibiotic treatment with a never-before-seen trick.<\/p>\n<p>Bacteria\u2019s troublesome talent for developing resistance against antibiotics is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-third-leading-cause-of-death-globally-in-2019-was-antibiotic-resistant-bacterial-infection\">rapidly growing health threat<\/a>. This ability has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-traced-back-the-history-of-antibiotics-and-antibiotic-resistance-millions-of-years\">ancient origins<\/a> and allows drug-resistant bacterial infections like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drugresistance\/biggest-threats.html#mrsa\">MRSA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/std\/gonorrhea\/arg\/basic.htm\">gonorrhea<\/a> to kill 1.3 million people globally each year.<\/p>\n<p>These superbugs are even finding their way into wild animals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-are-increasing-in-dolphins-and-it-looks-like-it-s-our-fault\">such as dolphins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antibiotic-resistance-has-now-been-found-in-bears-in-remote-scandinavia\">bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have just caught bacteria sidestepping antibiotic treatment with a never-before-seen trick. Bacteria\u2019s troublesome talent for developing resistance against antibiotics is a rapidly growing health threat. This ability has ancient origins and allows drug-resistant bacterial infections like MRSA and gonorrhea to kill 1.3 million people globally each year. These superbugs are even finding their way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}