Killing Zac Efron, Literally

By:Caitlyn Homolya

On December 29, 2019, Zac Efron was rushed to the hospital in Brisbane, Australia after he caught a form of typhoid or similar bacterial infection. Efron was filming his new show,

Killing Zac Efron, in Papua New Guinea when he caught this disease. Efron is now stable and ​ out of the hospital after being in there for three weeks.

Zac Efron, first known for the High School Musical movies playing Troy Bolton, is an ​ ​ actor most teenage girls love for his good looks and his singing. Makenna Dew is one of those teenage girls, “When I heard Zac Efron almost died, I almost started crying because he was my childhood.” Efron is known for so much more, with a net worth of around 24 million and has acted in over 200 movies. Efron has impacted many lives being an actor and is loved by many, so a lot of people were heartbroken to hear that Efron got sick and was hospitalized. Efron kept it quiet while he was in the hospital so he could heal in peace, and then after he was healthy and the typoid-like disease was out of him, he came out and said he was okay after speculation about him was spread.

Efron was filming the show, Killing Zac Efron, so he was going to be off the grid for ​ ​ three weeks in the jungle with no luxuries. In any case, the show's title appeared to be worryingly close to the line as he wound up on a “life or death” helicopter trip to Australia after he was hit with this serious illness. After touching down in Australia, Efron was quickly admitted to the private St Andrews War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane and was treated there for a few days.

Efron is now healthy and illness free and is back in the United States where he belongs.