{"id":66924,"date":"2024-09-24T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/24\/drug-resistant-typhoid-disease-pakistan-antibiotics-superbugs-children"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:00:29","slug":"drug-resistant-typhoid-is-the-final-warning-sign-disease-spreads-in-pakistan-as-antibiotics-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66924","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Drug-resistant typhoid is the final warning sign\u2019: disease spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan\u2019s children are suffering on the frontline<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/24\/the-world-is-facing-an-antibiotic-emergency-a-data-led-plan-of-action-is-needed-now\">The world is facing an antibiotic emergency: a data-led plan of action is needed now<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha could see his siblings play with a ball in the courtyard. His head hurt and his body felt too heavy to move. Ukasha had typhoid fever \u2013 an illness he should have recovered from in days. It had been a month.<\/p>\n<p>At its worst, typhoid can kill. Ukasha\u2019s family were anxious, even moving his bed outside to give him fresh air and sunlight. Now he could sit up, smile at the view in front of him and even finally eat his favourite food, eggs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/24\/drug-resistant-typhoid-disease-pakistan-antibiotics-superbugs-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan\u2019s children are suffering on the frontlineThe world is facing an antibiotic emergency: a data-led plan of action is needed nowFrom his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha could see h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"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":[2683,2732,372,59,566,914,60,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antibiotics","category-drug-resistance","category-drugs","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-pakistan","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66924","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\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66925,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66924\/revisions\/66925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}