{"id":7468,"date":"2022-03-14T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:12:08","slug":"the-hidden-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7468","title":{"rendered":"The hidden epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the overuse of antibiotics, whether in human patients or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/fact-sheets\/2016\/12\/antibiotics-and-animal-agriculture-a-primer#:~:text=Antibiotics%20used%20in%20animal%20agriculture%20contribute%20to%20the%20threat%20of,for%20use%20on%20the%20farm.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in livestock<\/a>, results in bacteria adapting to the drugs, leading them to become less effective over time. If the pace of resistance isn\u2019t halted \u2014 whether through more judicious use of the drugs or through the development of new classes of antibiotics \u2014 it will likely lead to soaring deaths from common infections and surgical complications, sending us back to a world where a minor cut could potentially once again be lethal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can avoid this fate, but it will require coordinating a global response before it\u2019s too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/22922018\/antibiotic-resistance-epidemic-drug-resistant-infections\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/22922018\/antibiotic-resistance-epidemic-drug-resistant-infections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the overuse of antibiotics, whether in human patients or in livestock, results in bacteria adapting to the drugs, leading them to become less effective over time. If the pace of resistance isn\u2019t halted \u2014 whether through more judicious use of the drugs or through the development of new classes of antibiotics \u2014 it will likely lead to soaring deaths from common infections and surgical complications, sending us back to a world where a minor cut could potentially once again be lethal.<\/p>\n<p>We can avoid this fate, but it will require coordinating a global response before it\u2019s too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[522,81],"class_list":["post-7468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-antibiotics","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}