{"id":62569,"date":"2024-03-15T10:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/15\/japan-streptococcal-infections-rise-details"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:05:37","slug":"mystery-in-japan-as-dangerous-streptococcal-infections-soar-to-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62569","title":{"rendered":"Mystery in Japan as dangerous streptococcal infections soar to record levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials racing to identify cause of rise in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, which has a 30% fatality rate<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn that a rare but dangerous bacterial infection is spreading at a record rate in Japan, with officials struggling to identify the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The number of cases in 2024 is expected to exceed last year\u2019s record numbers, while concern is growing that the harshest and potentially deadly form of group A streptococcal disease \u2013 streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) \u2013 will continue to spread, after the presence of highly virulent and infectious strains were confirmed in Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/15\/japan-streptococcal-infections-rise-details\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials racing to identify cause of rise in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, which has a 30% fatality rateExperts warn that a rare but dangerous bacterial infection is spreading at a record rate in Japan, with officials struggling to identi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,914,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62569\/revisions\/62570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}