{"id":181954,"date":"2024-02-03T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/washington-state-experiencing-1st-known-outbreak-of-potentially-deadly-fungus-health-officials"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:25:01","slug":"washington-state-experiencing-1st-known-outbreak-of-potentially-deadly-fungus-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/washington-state-experiencing-1st-known-outbreak-of-potentially-deadly-fungus-health-officials","title":{"rendered":"Washington state experiencing 1st known outbreak of potentially deadly fungus: Health officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/washington-state-experiencing-1st-known-outbreak-of-potentially-deadly-fungus-health-officials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington state is experiencing its first known outbreak of a potentially deadly fungus, according to public health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Four patients in the last month have tested positive for Candida auris, or C. auris, Public Health \u2014 Seattle &amp; King County said in a <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/publichealthinsider.com\/2024\/01\/30\/update-on-c-auris-the-partners-for-patient-safety-program-screening-and-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first case occurred in a patient who had recently been admitted to Kindred Hospital Seattle, which was identified through a proactive screening program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state is experiencing its first known outbreak of a potentially deadly fungus, according to public health officials. Four patients in the last month have tested positive for Candida auris, or C. auris, Public Health \u2014 Seattle &amp; King County said in a release. The first case occurred in a patient who had recently been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181954","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\/181954","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=181954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}