{"id":2859,"date":"2007-10-20T07:07:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/the_methamphetamine_epidemic_comes_next.html"},"modified":"2007-10-20T07:07:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T15:07:37","slug":"the_methampheta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/the_methampheta.html","title":{"rendered":"The Methamphetamine Epidemic Comes Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The staph infection that had stayed away from the city but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/are_you_ready_f.html\">which showed up in Fairfield County this past week<\/a> inches even closer and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/10\/20\/2007-10-20_ten_members_of_iona_football_team_hit_wi.html\">crosses into New Rochelle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ten members of the Iona College football team have been infected with the so-called superbug MRSA, health officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The most severely affected student athlete was hospitalized for a few days, and eight other team members and a coach received outpatient treatment, Iona spokeswoman Cecelia Donohoe said.<\/p>\n<p>All the cases have been caught early and were mild, &#8220;a pimple or a boil,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the outbreak, which can be spread by skin-to-skin contact or sharing an item used by an infected person, is under control and all team members with open wounds have been banned from playing football.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The staph infection that had stayed away from the city but which showed up in Fairfield County this past week inches even closer and crosses into New Rochelle: Ten members of the Iona College football team have been infected with the so-called superbug MRSA, health officials said on Friday. The most severely affected student athlete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}