{"id":5825,"date":"2024-02-06T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:34:42","slug":"washington-state-experiencing-1st-known-outbreak-of-potentially-deadly-fungus-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/06\/washington-state-experiencing-1st-known-outbreak-of-potentially-deadly-fungus-health-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington state experiencing 1st known outbreak of potentially deadly fungus: Health officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Washington state experiencing 1st known outbreak of potentially deadly fungus: Health officials\">ABC News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington state is experiencing its first known outbreak of a potentially deadly fungus, according to public health officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four patients in the last month have tested positive for Candida auris, or C. auris, Public Health &#8211; Seattle&nbsp;&amp; King County said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthinsider.com\/2024\/01\/30\/update-on-c-auris-the-partners-for-patient-safety-program-screening-and-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first case occurred in a patient who had recently been admitted to Kindred Hospital Seattle, which was identified through a proactive screening program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional screenings found two new cases, as well as a case with links to Kindred, who had originally tested negative for C. auris when first admitted, the health department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s currently unclear what the initial source of the infection is and officials said the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/washington-state-experiencing-1st-outbreak-potentially-deadly-fungus\/story?id=106864606\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News Washington state is experiencing its first known outbreak of a potentially deadly fungus, according to public health officials. Four patients in the last month have tested positive for Candida auris, or C. auris, Public Health &#8211; Seattle&nbsp;&amp; King County said in a&nbsp;release. The first case occurred in a patient who had recently been [&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":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fungal-infection"],"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\/5825","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=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}