{"id":1250,"date":"2023-04-05T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T19:09:31","slug":"virovores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Virovores<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent article in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em> discussed the discovery of a bacteria whose only diet is viruses; hence the name virovore.&nbsp; Actually, the scientific one is Halteria ciliate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These bacteria were first discovered in fresh water ponds.&nbsp; In the lab, each Halteria organism consumed 1 million viruses daily, but when studied in their natural element they consumed 1 quadrillion viruses daily.&nbsp; Since Halteria do not seem to be pathogenic to humans there is ongoing research to see if there might be a way to use Halteria as a treatment for human viral infections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences discussed the discovery of a bacteria whose only diet is viruses; hence the name virovore.&nbsp; Actually, the scientific one is Halteria ciliate. These bacteria were first discovered in fresh water ponds.&nbsp; In the lab, each Halteria organism consumed 1 million viruses daily, but when studied in their natural element they consumed 1 quadrillion viruses daily.&nbsp; Since Halteria do not seem to be pathogenic to humans there is ongoing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1250\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[605,604],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halteria","tag-virovores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}