{"id":46013,"date":"2014-09-23T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_ebola_could_extend_its_life_in_humans_mutatingmake_fighting_it_har\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T16:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T16:14:59","slug":"la_times_ebola_could_extend_its_life_in_humans_mutatingmake_fighting_it_har","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46013","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Ebola could extend its life in humans, mutating+making fighting it harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a grim assessment of the Ebola epidemic, researchers say the deadly virus threatens to become endemic to West Africa instead of eventually disappearing from humans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current epidemiologic outlook is bleak,&#8221; wrote a panel of more than 60 World Health Organization experts in a study published Tuesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must therefore face the possibility that Ebola virus disease will become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-ebola-may-be-endemic-in-people-20140922-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a grim assessment of the Ebola epidemic, researchers say the deadly virus threatens to become endemic to West Africa instead of eventually disappearing from humans. &#8220;The current epidemiologic outlook is bleak,&#8221; wrote a panel of more than 60 World<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46013\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,175,168,119,104,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}