{"id":5488,"date":"2023-12-12T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2023-12-12T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:45:28","slug":"chinas-children-battling-pneumonia-shows-the-dangers-of-drug-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/12\/12\/chinas-children-battling-pneumonia-shows-the-dangers-of-drug-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Children Battling Pneumonia Shows the Dangers of Drug Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-11\/china-s-children-battling-pneumonia-shows-the-dangers-of-drug-resistance\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The harm caused by antibiotic drug resistance was clear to see in China\u2019s packed pediatric hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An outbreak of walking pneumonia, normally a mild infection,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-24\/could-china-s-child-pneumonia-outbreak-spread-all-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struck millions<\/a>&nbsp;of children in the second half of 2023, creating Covid flashbacks and raising fears about another novel pathogen. But doctors say another real danger is the rise of superbugs, crafted by drug resistance that\u2019s been building for years and rendering life-saving antibiotics less effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The threat became tangible for Rachel Qiao when her one-and-half-year-old daughter came down with a fever, cough and runny nose during the thick of Beijing\u2019s sweltering summer. Initially, rising bacterial infections caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae didn\u2019t trigger worry, as other countries had similar experiences with different germs after they eased pandemic-control measures. The doctor prescribed the antibiotic azithromycin and offered a warning: some kids weren\u2019t responding to treatment. The toddler developed lesions in her lungs and continued to deteriorate even after she was switched to an intravenous dosage, given a stronger antibiotic and treated with other drugs to target the inflammation that developed around her heart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg The harm caused by antibiotic drug resistance was clear to see in China\u2019s packed pediatric hospitals. An outbreak of walking pneumonia, normally a mild infection,&nbsp;struck millions&nbsp;of children in the second half of 2023, creating Covid flashbacks and raising fears about another novel pathogen. But doctors say another real danger is the rise of superbugs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5489,"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-12-at-15.44.12.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","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=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}