{"id":7881,"date":"2019-02-26T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:06:18","slug":"hybrid-flatworms-pass-from-livestock-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/hybrid-flatworms-pass-from-livestock-to-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid flatworms pass from livestock to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parasitic disease which affects more than 200 million of the world\u2019s poorest people is transmitted between humans and their livestock through &#8220;hybrid&#8221; flatworms, a UK-funded project has found.<\/p>\n<p>Schistosomiasis, a chronic disease caused by parasitic flatworms which leads to an intestine or urinary tract infection, is common in communities without access to safe drinking water and sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/02\/25\/hybrid-flatworms-pass-livestock-humans-uk-backed-research-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schistosomiasis, a chronic disease caused by parasitic flatworms which leads to an intestine or urinary tract infection, is common in communities without access to safe drinking water and sanitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[1035,1030,1032,1037,1031,1033,1034,1036],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching","tag-department-for-international-development","tag-flatworms","tag-parasitic-flatworms","tag-passed-from-animals-to-humans","tag-schistosomiasis","tag-urinary-tract-infection","tag-world-health-organisation","tag-zoonotic-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","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=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8123,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}