{"id":46569,"date":"2014-10-27T02:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T02:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wbur_reality_check_how_people_catch_ebola_and_how_they_dont\/"},"modified":"2014-10-27T02:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T02:56:46","slug":"wbur_reality_check_how_people_catch_ebola_and_how_they_dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46569","title":{"rendered":"(WBUR) Reality Check: How People Catch Ebola, And How They Don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned to Dr. Elke Muhlberger, an Ebola expert long intimate with the virus \u201d\u201d through more than 20 years of Ebola research that included two pregnancies. (I must say I find this the ultimate antidote for the fear generated by the nurses\u2019 infections: A researcher so confident in the power of taking the right precautions that she had no fear \u201d\u201d and rightly so, it turned out \u201d\u201d for her babies-to-be.)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Muhlberger is an associate professor of micriobiology at Boston University and director of the Biomolecule Production Core at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (widely referred to as the NEIDL, pronounced \u201cneedle\u201d\u009d) at Boston University. Our conversation, lightly edited:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commonhealth.wbur.org\/2014\/10\/reality-check-how-catch-ebola\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned to Dr. Elke Muhlberger, an Ebola expert long intimate with the virus \u201d\u201d through more than 20 years of Ebola research that included two pregnancies. (I must say I find this the ultimate antidote for the fear generated<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46569\">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":[39,119,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-globalization","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46569","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=46569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}