{"id":3525,"date":"2023-05-20T06:18:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2023-05-20T06:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:18:30","slug":"first-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-detected-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=3525","title":{"rendered":"First Cases of Drug-Resistant Ringworm Detected in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3526\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-140.png 1110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ringworm has nothing to do with worms; it is a fungal infection that causes a ring-shaped rash. <small>Alamy; CDC<\/small><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first cases of a highly contagious, drug-resistant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/ringworm\/guide\/\">ringworm<\/a>\u00a0infection have been detected in the United States, in New York City. In a recent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7219a4.htm?s_cid=mm7219a4_w#contribAff\" target=\"_blank\">report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a>, doctors warned that this type of severe ringworm infection (also called tinea) is caused by a relatively new form of fungus called\u00a0<em>Trichophyton indotineae,\u00a0<\/em>which does not respond to common antifungal treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/ringworm\/first-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-detected-in-us\/\">https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/ringworm\/first-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-detected-in-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first cases of a highly contagious, drug-resistant\u00a0ringworm\u00a0infection have been detected in the United States, in New York City. In a recent\u00a0report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), doctors warned that this type of severe ringworm infection (also called tinea) is caused by a relatively new form of fungus called\u00a0Trichophyton indotineae,\u00a0which does not respond to common antifungal treatments. Read more: https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/ringworm\/first-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm-detected-in-us\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}