{"id":285618,"date":"2019-12-29T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1106358"},"modified":"2019-12-29T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:30:58","slug":"zac-efron-breaks-his-silence-after-reportedly-being-rushed-to-an-australian-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/zac-efron-breaks-his-silence-after-reportedly-being-rushed-to-an-australian-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Efron Breaks His Silence After Reportedly Being Rushed to an Australian Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.598626104024\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"22.734052993131\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zac_efron\">Zac Efron<\/a><\/strong> has a message for his fans.<\/p>\n<p>News recently broke that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1106270\/zac-efron-rushed-to-hospital-in-australia-with-possible-typhoid-infection-before-holidays-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the 32-year-old actor was rushed to a hospital<\/a> in Australia after suffering a medical emergency during the filming of his upcoming TV show, <em>Killing Zac Efron<\/em>. This apparently occurred right before the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;Australia&#8217;s <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>, who reported the news on Saturday, Efron <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/destinations\/traveler\/none\/papua-new-guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegedly contracted typhoid or other bacterial infection<\/a> while filming on the island country of Papua New Guinea. The <em>High School Musical<\/em> alum&nbsp;was airlifted by emergency medical workers to an airport in Brisbane, Australia,&nbsp;and was then transported to a private hospital, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>E! News previously shared that&nbsp;we didn&#8217;t confirm the 32-year-old star&#8217;s illness nor heard back from his rep when we reached out for comment.&nbsp;However, it was discovered that Efron was spotted&nbsp;looking healthy in the U.S. over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>With so much chatter surrounding the <em>Baywatch<\/em> star, he decided to break his silence&nbsp;and give an update on his well-being.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.579591836735\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.8530612244898\">\n<p>&#8220;Very thankful to everyone who has reached out. I did get sick in Papua New Guinea but I bounced back quick and finished an amazing 3 weeks in P.N.G.,&#8221; the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6rOIUUF36r\/?igshid=1gk4ohsecibd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> in an Instagram post on Sunday, alongside a photo of him&nbsp;smiling with kids.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191121\/rs_1024x759-191221150158-1024.zac-efron.ct.122019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Zac Efron\" alt=\"Zac Efron\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Rich Polk\/Getty Images for IMDb<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.181818181818\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"10.727272727273\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m home for the holidays with my friends and family,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Thanks for all the love and concern, see you in 2020!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see the beloved star is feeling better!<\/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>,&nbsp;typhoid can be found in contaminated food or water in Papua New Guinea. The CDC recommends&nbsp;people who come in contact with this get treated with a&nbsp;vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.278481012658\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.481012658228\">\n<p>Moreover, as ironic as it may be, the 32-year-old star <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\">announced his latest project in November<\/a>, <em>Killing Zac Efron<\/em>. The series gives an intimate look at the actor, who goes off-the-grid for 21 days to explore the &#8220;deep into the jungles of a remote, dangerous island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this is all the &#8220;danger&#8221; he runs into!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1106358\/zac-efron-breaks-his-silence-after-reportedly-being-rushed-to-an-australian-hospital?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>Zac Efron has a message for his fans. News recently broke that the 32-year-old actor was rushed to a hospital in Australia after suffering a medical emergency during the filming of his upcoming TV show, Killing Zac Efron. This apparently occurred right before the holidays. According to&nbsp;Australia&#8217;s Sunday Telegraph, who reported the news on Saturday, [&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-285618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-07 20:03:36","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\/285618","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=285618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}