{"id":10391,"date":"2025-09-24T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:09:03","slug":"cdc-warns-of-surge-in-dangerous-highly-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/cdc-warns-of-surge-in-dangerous-highly-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC warns of surge in dangerous, highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/09\/24\/ndm-cre-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria\/\">Washington Post<\/a> The agency said infections from NDM-CRE bacteria, which are resistant to \u201csome of the strongest antibiotics available,\u201d are very hard to treat and can be deadly. Infections from dangerous bacteria that are resistant to \u201csome of the strongest antibiotics available\u201d have surged in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2025\/2025-cdc-report-finds-sharp-rise-in-dangerous-drug-resistant-bacteria.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"said, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing a CDC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/ANNALS-25-02404\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"study, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published Tuesday, the agency said in a news release that infections from NDM-CRE bacteria rose by more than 460 percent in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese infections \u2014 including pneumonia, bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, and wound infections \u2014 are extremely hard to treat and can be deadly,\u201d the CDC said.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Odve Z  ptFFkzYVXFsYhV DZYh D \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The agency said infections from NDM-CRE bacteria, which are resistant to \u201csome of the strongest antibiotics available,\u201d are very hard to treat and can be deadly. Infections from dangerous bacteria that are resistant to \u201csome of the strongest antibiotics available\u201d have surged in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&nbsp;said&nbsp;Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10392,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}