{"id":189,"date":"2012-04-05T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-04-05T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:51:01","slug":"bird-flu-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maelstrom in scientific media prompts concern<\/strong><strong>with precipitous release of bird flu research\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Despite warnings from many medical and scientific groups, <em>\u201cNew Scientist\u201d<\/em> recently published the article, \u201cFive easy mutations to make bird flu a lethal pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two different research groups have engineered the H5N1 virus which is highly communicable between ferrets (the most reliable animal surrogate for human flu). Should this avian virus \u201cget loose,\u201d it would probably kill 20 percent of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>Medical and scientific groups had lobbied to withhold precise details on the experimental work, but sadly, these cautions were not heeded.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the same global restraint that has prevented post-WWII use of nuclear weapons will prevail with regard to this new discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maelstrom in scientific media prompts concernwith precipitous release of bird flu research\u00a0\u00a0 Despite warnings from many medical and scientific groups, \u201cNew Scientist\u201d recently published the article, \u201cFive easy mutations to make bird flu a lethal pandemic.\u201d Two different research groups have engineered the H5N1 virus which is highly communicable between ferrets (the most reliable animal surrogate for human flu). Should this avian virus \u201cget loose,\u201d it would probably kill 20 percent of the world\u2019s population. Medical and scientific groups had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=189\"> 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bird-flu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}