{"id":376,"date":"2012-02-16T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T08:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=376"},"modified":"2012-02-16T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:20:57","slug":"the-virus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/16\/the-virus-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The virus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Virus Crisis | National Geographic\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/91b3MCAlYSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This National Geographic video highlights how deadly rainforest viruses have transported from their animal hosts, and across continents. West Nile Virus is an example of how the world&#8217;s increased globalization has made people more vulnerable to deadly diseases. The virus is native to a very specific ecology of birds and streams in Africa. &#8220;No one could have imagined it [West Nile] could have emerged in the concrete jungle of Manhattan and Queens,&#8221; said Laurie Garrett, a science writer featured in the video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This National Geographic video highlights how deadly rainforest viruses have transported from their animal hosts, and across continents. West Nile Virus is an example of how the world&#8217;s increased globalization has made people more vulnerable to deadly diseases. The virus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/16\/the-virus-crisis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6559],"tags":[8415,8421,1048,8422,8424],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease","tag-hiv","tag-national-geographic","tag-transportation","tag-virus","tag-west-nile-virus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}