{"id":7866,"date":"2019-02-11T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:08:30","slug":"avian-influenza-infects-horses-in-asia-but-lacks-ability-to-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/avian-influenza-infects-horses-in-asia-but-lacks-ability-to-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian influenza infects horses in Asia but lacks ability to spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avian flu viruses appear to struggle to acquire the necessary changes in their genome to adapt to horses, according to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that avian influenza viruses infect horses in Mongolia but do not cause large outbreaks of disease because they failed to acquire key genetic changes to enable greater cross-species transmissibility.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsetalk.co.nz\/2019\/02\/09\/asian-horses-bird-flu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These findings are contained in a study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,58,14,31,20],"tags":[1013,1015,1018,1014,1016,1017],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-equine-diseases","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching","tag-avian-flu","tag-cross-species-transmissibility","tag-influenza-a","tag-mongolia","tag-pablo-murcia","tag-viral-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","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=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}