{"id":163726,"date":"2023-05-12T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/at-least-2-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-infections-found-in-the-u-s-cdc-says"},"modified":"2023-05-12T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:24:02","slug":"at-least-2-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-infections-found-in-the-u-s-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/at-least-2-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-infections-found-in-the-u-s-cdc-says","title":{"rendered":"At least 2 cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections found in the U.S., CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-least-2-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-infections-found-in-the-u-s-cdc-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City \u2014 the first such cases reported in the U.S., the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7219a4.htm?s_cid=mm7219a4_w\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The infection was first identified in a 47-year-old woman who had developed a bad case of ringworm, also known as tinea, while traveling in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>A rash had erupted across most of her body and typical antifungal creams did nothing to alleviate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City \u2014 the first such cases reported in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The infection was first identified in a 47-year-old woman who had developed a bad case of ringworm, also known as tinea, while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163726","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}