{"id":1146,"date":"2007-08-14T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T06:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2007-08-14T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T06:09:13","slug":"scientists-pinpoint-what-makes-west-nile-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/scientists-pinpoint-what-makes-west-nile-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pinpoint what makes West Nile deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AFP) &#8211; Even as health officials warn against a West Nile epidemic in the United States this summer, scientists have pinpointed what makes the disease &#8212; unknown in North America a decade ago &#8212; so deadly, according to a study released Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The US researchers identified a single genetic mutation that causes the virus to become far more virulent, leading to increased mortality in wild birds and, almost certainly, in humans.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070812\/hl_afp\/healthdiseasevirus_070812181039\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AFP) &#8211; Even as health officials warn against a West Nile epidemic in the United States this summer, scientists have pinpointed what makes the disease &#8212; unknown in North America a decade ago &#8212; so deadly, according to a study released Sunday. The US researchers identified a single genetic mutation that causes the virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}