{"id":89328,"date":"2019-04-08T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/deadly-super-fungus-could-be-the-beginning-of-a-global-epidemic"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:34:27","slug":"deadly-super-fungus-could-be-the-beginning-of-a-global-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/deadly-super-fungus-could-be-the-beginning-of-a-global-epidemic","title":{"rendered":"Deadly \u201cSuper Fungus\u201d Could Be the Beginning of a Global Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deadly-super-fungus-could-be-the-beginning-of-a-global-epidemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria\u2019s ability to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/antibiotic-considered-obsolete-find-new-use-against-superbugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antibiotic resistance<\/a> is well known \u2014 but it turns out fungi are also evolving to withstand modern medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Now one such fungus is cropping up in hospitals all across the globe and killing half the people who contract it within 90 days, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/06\/health\/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alarming story<\/a> by <em>The New York Times<\/em> \u2014 raising concerns about a new global epidemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/deadly-super-fungus-global-epidemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria\u2019s ability to develop antibiotic resistance is well known \u2014 but it turns out fungi are also evolving to withstand modern medicine. Now one such fungus is cropping up in hospitals all across the globe and killing half the people who contract it within 90 days, according to an alarming story by The New York [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89328","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}