{"id":101250,"date":"2020-01-22T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T07:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/new-ebola-like-virus-found-in-a-chinese-bats-liver"},"modified":"2020-01-22T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T07:27:38","slug":"new-ebola-like-virus-found-in-a-chinese-bats-liver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/new-ebola-like-virus-found-in-a-chinese-bats-liver","title":{"rendered":"New Ebola-like virus found in a Chinese bat\u2019s liver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ebola-like-virus-found-in-a-chinese-bats-liver2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The M\u011bngl\u00e0 virus can infect human cells but the risk of its transmission from bats to humans is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng-Li Shi at the Chinese Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s in Wuhan and their colleagues examined a <i>Rousettus<\/i> fruit bat caught in southern China. The bat\u2019s liver contained a new type of filovirus that the researchers named M\u011bngl\u00e0 virus for the county where the bat was captured. M\u011bngl\u00e0 is substantially different from both Ebola and Marburg virus, highlighting the genetic diversity of filoviruses in bats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M\u011bngl\u00e0 virus can infect human cells but the risk of its transmission from bats to humans is unknown. Zheng-Li Shi at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan and their colleagues examined a Rousettus fruit bat caught in southern China. The bat\u2019s liver contained a new type of filovirus that the researchers named M\u011bngl\u00e0 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}