{"id":89554,"date":"2019-04-16T03:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/drug-resistant-bugs-discovered-in-animal-hospital-prompts-health-warning"},"modified":"2019-04-16T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T10:25:43","slug":"drug-resistant-bugs-discovered-in-animal-hospital-prompts-health-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/drug-resistant-bugs-discovered-in-animal-hospital-prompts-health-warning","title":{"rendered":"Drug-resistant bugs discovered in animal hospital prompts health warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-resistant-bugs-discovered-in-animal-hospital-prompts-health-warning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pets in a British animal hospital have been found to be harbouring potentially lethal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/superbugs-antibiotic-resistance\/\">drug-resistant bugs<\/a> that could be transferred to owners.<\/p>\n<p>Tests by Public Health England (PHE) revealed three cats a dog were colonised by bacteria able to fend off Linezolid, a \u201clast-resort\u201d antibiotic used to treat superbugs such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/1486196\/MRSA-explained.html\">MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No staff or owners are known to have been taken ill as a result, however the agency last night warned veterinary surgeries to enforce proper cleaning practices after this first discovery of its kind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/04\/15\/drug-resistant-bugs-discovered-animal-hospital-prompts-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pets in a British animal hospital have been found to be harbouring potentially lethal drug-resistant bugs that could be transferred to owners. Tests by Public Health England (PHE) revealed three cats a dog were colonised by bacteria able to fend off Linezolid, a \u201clast-resort\u201d antibiotic used to treat superbugs such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). [\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-89554","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\/89554","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=89554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}