{"id":8935,"date":"2026-04-25T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:20:16","slug":"astonishing-discovery-could-help-save-children-from-deadly-disfiguring-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Astonishing\u2019 discovery could help save children from deadly disfiguring condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A previously unknown species of bacteria found in patients with noma could be key to creating treatments for the neglected tropical disease<\/p>\n<p>The \u201castonishing\u201d discovery of a new bacteria could open the door to better ways to prevent, detect and treat a fatal and disfiguring childhood disease, researchers hope.<\/p>\n<p>Noma, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/noma\">fatal in 90% of cases without treatment<\/a>, begins as a sore on the gums but goes on to destroy the tissues of the mouth and face.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/apr\/25\/discovery-children-fatal-disfiguring-disease-noma-unknown-bacteria\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously unknown species of bacteria found in patients with noma could be key to creating treatments for the neglected tropical disease The \u201castonishing\u201d discovery of a new bacteria could open the door to better ways to prevent, detect and treat a fatal and disfiguring childhood disease, researchers hope. Noma, which is fatal in 90% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,264,89,168,109,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-children","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-nigeria","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}