{"id":28475,"date":"2019-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/05\/seven-deaths-in-california-from-infections-tied-to-black-tar-heroin\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:10:06","slug":"seven-deaths-in-california-from-infections-tied-to-black-tar-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/05\/seven-deaths-in-california-from-infections-tied-to-black-tar-heroin\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Deaths in California From Infections Tied to Black Tar Heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Nine people, aged 19 to 57, have been admitted to area hospitals with myonecrosis bacterial infections<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Infections linked to injections of black tar heroin have killed seven people in San Diego County in the past two months, health officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24, nine adults, aged 19 to 57 years, were admitted to area hospitals with &#8220;severe myonecrosis&#8221; bacterial infections after injecting the drug, according to a county health department statement, <i>NBC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The health department does not know the source of the black tar heroin involved in these illnesses and fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors and other medical professionals should watch for more cases of soft tissue infections, the health department advised, <i>NBC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/seven-die-infections-linked-black-tar-heroin-san-diego-area-n1096296\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>NBC News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countynewscenter.com\/seven-san-diegans-died-from-infection-linked-to-black-tar-heroin\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">County of San Diego Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people, aged 19 to 57, have been admitted to area hospitals with myonecrosis bacterial infections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-28475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}