{"id":244872,"date":"2026-10-03T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/when-a-blood-smear-tells-the-story-diagnosing-fatal-secondary-hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-in-pregnancy"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:00:59","slug":"when-a-blood-smear-tells-the-story-diagnosing-fatal-secondary-hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-in-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/when-a-blood-smear-tells-the-story-diagnosing-fatal-secondary-hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-in-pregnancy","title":{"rendered":"When a Blood Smear Tells the Story: Diagnosing Fatal secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-a-blood-smear-tells-the-story-diagnosing-fatal-secondary-hemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-in-pregnancy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old woman in rural Ethiopia presented with fever in her third trimester. She died within hours. Looking back at her blood smear, the answer had been there all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old woman in rural Ethiopia presented with fever in her third trimester. She died within hours. Looking back at her blood smear, the answer had been there all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244872","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=244872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}