{"id":718,"date":"2011-02-10T04:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T09:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2011-10-27T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T03:06:23","slug":"are-hospitals-health-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/02\/10\/are-hospitals-health-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Hospitals Health Hazards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3723\" title=\"hospital\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hospital-150x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/>It\u2019s not uncommon that people develop serious hard-to-treat illnesses after spending even a short time in a hospital for minor conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Bacteria rolling around in hospitals have developed immunity to modern day antibacterial drugs and other treatments used in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>A new study among hospital workers in South Africa sheds light on what a hazardous place a hospital really is to visit and work in.<\/p>\n<p>These hospital workers were six times more likely to be hospitalized with resistant illnesses than non-hospital workers living in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t go to a hospital if needed. But you may want to do it only when absolutely needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not uncommon that people develop serious hard-to-treat illnesses after spending even a short time in a hospital for minor conditions. Bacteria rolling around in hospitals have developed immunity to modern day antibacterial drugs and other treatments used in hospitals. A new study among hospital workers in South Africa sheds light on what a hazardous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-general"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}