{"id":38791,"date":"2022-11-23T18:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=38791"},"modified":"2022-11-23T18:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:53:56","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-virus-lurking-in-bats-similar-pathogens-kill-up-to-one-in-three-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/23\/scientists-discover-a-new-virus-lurking-in-bats-similar-pathogens-kill-up-to-one-in-three-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a new virus lurking in bats: Similar pathogens kill up to one in three humans"},"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-27922\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bats-in-lab-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bats-in-lab-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bats-in-lab-500x312.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bats-in-lab-360x225.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bats-in-lab.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Scientists have discovered a new virus lurking in bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Kiwira virus \u2014 a type of hantavirus \u2014 has been found in free-tailed bats in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11461681\/Scientists-discover-new-virus-lurking-bats-Similar-pathogens-kill-one-three-humans.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>Scientists have discovered a new virus lurking in bats. The Kiwira virus \u2014 a type of hantavirus \u2014 has been found in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38791","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\/2021\/04\/bats-upside-down.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791","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=38791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38792,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791\/revisions\/38792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}