{"id":2301,"date":"2017-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/2017\/08\/a-personal-mission-in-the-battle-against-superbugs\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T21:17:03","slug":"a-personal-mission-in-the-battle-against-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/2017\/08\/a-personal-mission-in-the-battle-against-superbugs\/","title":{"rendered":"A personal mission in the battle against superbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2832\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/967\/2019\/04\/WillisEdit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/967\/2019\/04\/WillisEdit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/967\/2019\/04\/WillisEdit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/967\/2019\/04\/WillisEdit-341x512.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/childrensresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/967\/2019\/04\/WillisEdit.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Zachary Willis, MD, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Body\">For parents, it\u2019s hard to imagine a scarier scenario than a child with an illness that won\u2019t respond to medicine. So when a parent reads news reports about an increase in infections from \u201csuperbugs\u201d \u2013 bacteria that have evolved to resist antibiotics \u2013 it\u2019s easy to understand why a simple earache may have parents fearing for the worst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u00a0Clinicians and researchers at UNC Children\u2019s are working tirelessly to address this problem and calm those fears as much as possible. For Zachary Willis MD, it\u2019s a personal mission. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/uncchildrens\/news\/2016\/december\/antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For parents, it\u2019s hard to imagine a scarier scenario than a child with an illness that won\u2019t respond to medicine. 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