{"id":85228,"date":"2026-08-07T07:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85228"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:23:12","slug":"deadly-superbug-confirmed-in-23-states-can-hide-in-your-hair-follicles-and-rewire-your-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/deadly-superbug-confirmed-in-23-states-can-hide-in-your-hair-follicles-and-rewire-your-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Superbug Confirmed In 23 States Can Hide In Your Hair Follicles \u2014 And Rewire Your Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This creepy discovery could leave you scratching your head.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adu6688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study<\/a> found that a deadly fungus can burrow deep into hair follicles, rewire the immune system and transform human skin into what one researcher described as a \u201cperfect nest\u201d for infection.\u00a0And the threat may be closer than you think. Cases of the superbug have been reported in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/258302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than two dozen states<\/a>\u00a0this year alone \u2014 including areas just across the river from New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): This creepy discovery could leave you scratching your head. A\u00a0new study found that a deadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85229,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85228\/revisions\/85229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}