{"id":267,"date":"2006-01-01T01:11:37","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T18:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=267"},"modified":"2006-01-01T01:16:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T18:16:31","slug":"hoping-for-the-best-preparing-for-the-worst-january-1-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/hoping-for-the-best-preparing-for-the-worst-january-1-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/jan06\/060101a.asp\">Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst &#8211; January 1, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>For More Info Click On Above Link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the recent arrival of the &#8220;Asian bird flu&#8221; in the Balkans, public health officials across the globe are hastily laying plans for the possibility\u00e2\u20ac\u201dindeed, the inevitability, to many\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe lethal virus will mutate into a new strain capable of sustained, person-to-person transmission.<\/p>\n<p>For now, however, human infection by H5N1 avian influenza virus is uncommon. Moreover, the virus isn&#8217;t particularly adept at passing from birds to people. Nevertheless, experts warn H5N1 has all the makings of a worldwide public health crisis, and the World Health Organization is sounding the alarm that a major flu pandemic could be imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent arrival of the &#8220;Asian bird flu&#8221; in the Balkans, public health officials across the globe are hastily laying plans for the possibility\u00e2\u20ac\u201dindeed, the inevitability, to many\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe lethal virus will mutate into a new strain capable of sustained, person-to-person transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}