{"id":53303,"date":"2026-05-26T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australia-confirms-first-diphtheria-death-amid-worst-outbreak-in-decades\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:01:39","slug":"australia-confirms-first-diphtheria-death-amid-worst-outbreak-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australia-confirms-first-diphtheria-death-amid-worst-outbreak-in-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia confirms first diphtheria death amid worst outbreak in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Most cases are in the Northern Territory with some also in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c759q6y26w3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most cases are in the Northern Territory with some also in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[409,4150,715,737,15275,2700,250],"class_list":["post-53303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-australia","tag-confirms","tag-death","tag-decades","tag-diphtheria","tag-outbreak","tag-worst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53305,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53303\/revisions\/53305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}