{"id":4175,"date":"2014-04-11T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:52:09","slug":"brave-nash-vienna-tackles-cystic-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/brave-nash-vienna-tackles-cystic-fibrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Nash Vienna tackles cystic fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jay Town<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4179\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/282662-43fd82be-bf9c-11e3-b362-fbc371d40a1d.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4179\" alt=\"Nash is in hospital receiving treatment for cystic fibrosis. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/282662-43fd82be-bf9c-11e3-b362-fbc371d40a1d-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nash is in hospital receiving treatment for cystic fibrosis. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nash Vienna has bugs down his throat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s what the three-year-old will tell you if you ask why he\u2019s at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>What Nash doesn\u2019t yet understand is that these bugs are antibiotic resistant \u201csuper bugs\u201d, which can be life threatening to patients like him who have cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n<p>The Werribee boy was diagnosed through his newborn heel prick test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/brave-nash-vienna-aims-to-beat-bugs\/story-fnls7nyz-1226880283585\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, go to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/goodfridayappeal.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read little Nash Vienna&#8217;s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}