{"id":285609,"date":"2019-12-29T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1106270"},"modified":"2019-12-29T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T16:16:45","slug":"zac-efron-rushed-to-hospital-in-australia-with-possible-typhoid-infection-before-holidays-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/zac-efron-rushed-to-hospital-in-australia-with-possible-typhoid-infection-before-holidays-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Efron Rushed to Hospital in Australia With Possible Typhoid Infection Before Holidays: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.21484375\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191019\/rs_634x1024-191119171123-634-zac-efron-may-me-111919.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Zac Efron\" alt=\"Zac Efron\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Gregory Pace\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"32.411483253589\">\n<p>While we were preparing for our holiday parties and meals, it appears that&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zac_efron\">Zac Efron<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s new TV show nearly&nbsp;became reality.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the 32-year-old actor contracted what is believed to be a typhoid or other bacterial infection while on the island country of Papua New Guinea, where he&#8217;s been filming the new Quibi series <em>Killing Zac Efron<\/em>, and was airlifted by emergency medical workers to an airport in Brisbane, Australia, where he was then transported to a private hospital, the Australian<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/subscribe\/news\/1\/?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&amp;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fnews%2Fnsw%2Fzac-efrons-lifeordeath-flight-to-australia-after-falling-ill-in-png%2Fnews-story%2F2b3d6f107db04f13fea176e5355bfce2&amp;memtype=anonymous&amp;mode=premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunday Telegraph<\/a><\/em> newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/australia\/the-sunday-telegraph-sydney\/20191229\/281509343101062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet said that Efron spent several days at the hospital and that doctors allowed him to travel home to the U.S. on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1095115\/zac-efron-is-heading-deep-into-the-jungle-for-new-quibi-show-killing-zac-efron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Killing Zac Efron<\/em>, which was announced in November<\/a>, sees Efron spending 21 days off the grid,&nbsp;&#8220;deep into the jungles of a remote, dangerous island,&#8221;&nbsp;&#8220;with nothing but basic gear, a guide partner and a will to survive.&#8221; The <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em> said Efron fell ill while he was in the middle of filming the show.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/destinations\/traveler\/none\/papua-new-guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever,&nbsp;a life-threatening illness,&nbsp;can be&nbsp;found in contaminated water and food in Papua New Guinea.&nbsp;People who contract it&nbsp;can be treated with antibiotics.&nbsp;Vaccines are available.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>Dr. <strong>Glenn McKay<\/strong> from the Medical Rescue Group told the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> that a team &#8220;retrieved a U.S. citizen in his 30s from PNG to Brisbane recently for medical attention in Australia,&#8221; and that he was &#8220;admitted to St Andrews War Memorial Hospital&nbsp;in a stable condition.&#8221; He declined to name the patient.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1106270\/zac-efron-rushed-to-hospital-in-australia-with-possible-typhoid-infection-before-holidays-report?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Pace\/Shutterstock While we were preparing for our holiday parties and meals, it appears that&nbsp;Zac Efron&#8216;s new TV show nearly&nbsp;became reality. Last week, the 32-year-old actor contracted what is believed to be a typhoid or other bacterial infection while on the island country of Papua New Guinea, where he&#8217;s been filming the new Quibi series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-07 20:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}