{"id":285611,"date":"2019-12-29T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1106270"},"modified":"2019-12-29T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T18:40:00","slug":"zac-efron-reportedly-rushed-to-hospital-in-australia-before-holidays-recently-seen-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/zac-efron-reportedly-rushed-to-hospital-in-australia-before-holidays-recently-seen-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Efron Reportedly Rushed to Hospital in Australia Before Holidays, Recently Seen in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to an Australian report, Zac Efron <\/a><\/strong>suffered a medical emergency while filming his new TV show abroad before the holidays. E! News has not confirmed this, and has learned that the actor was seen in the United States a little more than a week ago after wrapping the series, and appeared healthy.<\/p>\n

The Australian Sunday Telegraph<\/a><\/em> newspaper reported<\/a> on Saturday that Efron had contracted what is believed to be a typhoid or other bacterial infection while on the island country of Papua New Guinea, where he’s been shooting the new Quibi series 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.<\/p>\n

Efron’s rep had no immediate comment about the report when contacted by E! News.<\/p>\n

The Sunday<\/em> Telegraph<\/em>, whose report was picked up by outlets such as Fox News<\/a>, the BBC<\/a>, Newsweek<\/a>, and multiple U.K. newspapers<\/a>, said that the actor spent several days at the hospital and that doctors allowed him to travel home to the U.S. on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

Dr. Glenn McKay<\/strong> from the Medical Rescue Group told the Daily Telegraph<\/em> that a team “retrieved a U.S. citizen in his 30s from PNG to Brisbane recently for medical attention in Australia,” and that he was “admitted to St Andrews War Memorial Hospital in a stable condition.” He declined to name the patient.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Killing Zac Efron<\/em>, which was announced in November<\/a>, sees Efron spending 21 days off the grid, “deep into the jungles of a remote, dangerous island,” “with nothing but basic gear, a guide partner and a will to survive.” The Sunday Telegraph<\/em> said Efron fell ill while he was in the middle of filming the show.<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, a life-threatening illness, can be found in contaminated water and food in Papua New Guinea. People who contract it can be treated with antibiotics. Vaccines are available.<\/p>\n

(Originally published on Sunday, December 29 at 8:16 a.m. PT)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Gregory Pace\/Shutterstock According to an Australian report, Zac Efron suffered a medical emergency while filming his new TV show abroad before the holidays. E! News has not confirmed this, and has learned that the actor was seen in the United States a little more than a week ago after wrapping the series, and appeared healthy. The Australian Sunday Telegraph […]<\/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-285611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-07 20:54:17","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\/285611","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=285611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}