{"id":35038,"date":"2017-03-03T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:27","slug":"these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity","title":{"rendered":"These 12 Superbugs Could Wipe Out Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic resistance continues to rise, and new drugs made to battle these increasingly formidable <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity2.jpg\" alt=\"Most-Dangerous-Super-Bugs-D2\" width=\"293\" height=\"433\" \/>microbes could take more than a decade to develop. In an effort to stress the urgency of this rising resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) created a list of the twelve deadliest superbugs with which we are currently dealing.<\/p>\n<p>The list is broken into three categories based on the severity of the threat (medium, high, or critical) that a given superbug poses. The three critical bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacteriaceae, are all already resistant to multiple drugs. One of these (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/turns-out-some-superbugs-literally-explode-when-they-die-making-them-even-more-deadly\">actually explodes<\/a> when they die, making them even more deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Pathogens that cause more common diseases like food poisoning or gonorrhea round out the rest of the list. Some big hitters include MRSA and salmonella.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/explorist.futurism.com\/these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity\/\">https:\/\/explorist.futurism.com\/these-12-superbugs-could-wipe-out-humanity\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibiotic resistance continues to rise, and new drugs made to battle these increasingly formidable microbes could take more than a decade to develop. In an effort to stress the urgency of this rising resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) created a list of the twelve deadliest superbugs with which we are currently dealing. The list [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35038","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\/35038","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58509,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35038\/revisions\/58509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}