{"id":1126,"date":"2009-10-16T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2009-10-16T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:17:52","slug":"mrsa-superbug-found-in-ocean-public-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MRSA &#8216;superbug&#8217; found in ocean, public beaches&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/atlantica\/library\/img\/eit\/headline-5.png\" alt=\"Headline Scariness: 5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water &#8211; deadly, unkillable microbes attack!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/atlantica\/library\/img\/eit\/actual-3.png\" alt=\"Actual Danger: 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like the tests were limited to a handful of beaches on the west coast.  Staph bacteria was found at 9 out of 10 of the beaches tested, Staph aureus was found on 5 of those, and about half of the samples taken from those 5 beaches were antibiotics-resistant.  MRSA is potentially fatal if you develop a bloodstream infection, though, so it&#8217;s still concerning to see hospital strains showing up on beaches.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2009-09-12-staph-superbug-MRSA-beaches_N.htm\">USAToday.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water &#8211; deadly, unkillable microbes attack! Looks like the tests were limited to a handful of beaches on the west coast. Staph bacteria was found at 9 out of 10 of the beaches tested, Staph aureus was found on 5 of those, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[14,13,15,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.everythingistoxic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}