{"id":43447,"date":"2026-01-01T14:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43447"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:34:03","slug":"super-bug-is-spreading-across-half-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43447","title":{"rendered":"Super bug is spreading across half the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/candida-auris-deadly-superbug-fungus-b2892900.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Candida-auris.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:221px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in nursing homes and hospitals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/candida-auris-deadly-superbug-fungus-b2892900.html\">Super bug is spreading across half the US<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you get infected with this pathogen that\u2019s resistant to any treatment, <strong><em>there\u2019s no treatment we can give you to help combat it. You\u2019re all on your own,<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Melissa Nolan, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/nexstar-media-wire\/what-makes-candida-auris-so-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Nexstar.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in nursing homes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[621,21],"class_list":["post-43447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fungus","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43447\/revisions\/43451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}