{"id":21724,"date":"2020-06-01T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=21724"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T11:40:06","slug":"from-the-plague-to-mers-a-brief-history-of-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/01\/from-the-plague-to-mers-a-brief-history-of-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"From the plague to MERS: A brief history of pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21725\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues-770x520.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues-500x338.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/dg\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 11<\/a>, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus &#8211; which was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year &#8211; a pandemic.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/interactive\/2020\/05\/plague-mers-history-pandemics-200520124051021.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus &#8211; which was first reported in the Chinese city of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/plagues.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21726,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724\/revisions\/21726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}