{"id":164291,"date":"2023-05-20T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/contaminated-eyedrops-now-linked-to-4-deaths-14-cases-of-blindness-cdc"},"modified":"2023-05-20T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T20:22:38","slug":"contaminated-eyedrops-now-linked-to-4-deaths-14-cases-of-blindness-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/contaminated-eyedrops-now-linked-to-4-deaths-14-cases-of-blindness-cdc","title":{"rendered":"Contaminated eyedrops now linked to 4 deaths, 14 cases of blindness: CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/contaminated-eyedrops-now-linked-to-4-deaths-14-cases-of-blindness-cdc2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eye drops that have been contaminated with a highly drug-resistant strain of bacteria have now been linked to four deaths and 14 cases of blindness, according to an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>The CDC said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hai\/outbreaks\/CRPA-artificial-tears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> on its website that it has identified 81 patients from 18 states who have been infected with VIM-GES-CRPA, a rare strain of a drug-resistant bacterium called P. aeruginosa. This includes 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3912546-cdc-tainted-eye-drops-linked-to-three-deaths-vision-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">additional<\/a> patients from the agency\u2019s previous update in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye drops that have been contaminated with a highly drug-resistant strain of bacteria have now been linked to four deaths and 14 cases of blindness, according to an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC said in a post on its website that it has identified 81 patients from 18 [\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-164291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164291","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=164291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}