{"id":10851,"date":"2025-11-19T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:38:05","slug":"new-antibiotic-stokes-hope-for-still-lethal-tb-in-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/new-antibiotic-stokes-hope-for-still-lethal-tb-in-study\/","title":{"rendered":"New Antibiotic Stokes Hope for Still Lethal TB in Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-19\/new-antibiotic-stokes-hope-for-still-lethal-tb-in-study\">Bloomberg<\/a> Thuto Pulane had just wrapped up a promising internship in marketing when she lost 13 kilos over two months and started coughing up green phlegm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She grew weaker and decided to visit a nearby clinic to get help after returning home from a family trip. Turns out Pulane had the world\u2019s deadliest curable infectious disease, one she remembered learning about at school: tuberculosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young woman was told the standard treatment would be a six-month course of antibiotics and she would risk contaminating her brother, who shares a house with her in South Africa\u2019s northern city of Rustenburg.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Thuto Pulane had just wrapped up a promising internship in marketing when she lost 13 kilos over two months and started coughing up green phlegm. She grew weaker and decided to visit a nearby clinic to get help after returning home from a family trip. Turns out Pulane had the world\u2019s deadliest curable infectious [&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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tb"],"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\/10851","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=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10852,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions\/10852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}