{"id":7050,"date":"2016-05-05T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:45:07","slug":"old-world-viruses-new-cause-of-equine-neurologic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/disease-outbrake\/old-world-viruses-new-cause-of-equine-neurologic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Old World Viruses &#8216;New&#8217; Cause of Equine Neurologic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of Sindbis virus or Middelburg virus? If you haven\u2019t you\u2019re not alone. But you might want to become familiar with them. South African researchers have determined that these \u201cOld World viruses\u201d have been causing considerable neurologic problems in a surprising number of horses\u2014and we\u2019re only just now realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cOld World virus,\u201d as opposed to a \u201cNew World virus,\u201d is one that originates in the Old World before the Americas were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/37517\/old-world-viruses-new-cause-of-equine-neurologic-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old World alphaviruses (which are transmitted via mosquitoes) have been mostly identified on the African continent,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,53,40,31],"tags":[422,423,420,421,357,358],"class_list":["post-7050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-equinews","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-african-horse-sickness","tag-ahs","tag-alphaviruses","tag-neurologic-disease","tag-west-nile-virus","tag-wnv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050","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=7050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7050\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}