{"id":101318,"date":"2020-01-24T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/virus-in-chinese-outbreak-is-closest-to-one-from-bats-not-snakes"},"modified":"2020-01-24T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T07:36:11","slug":"virus-in-chinese-outbreak-is-closest-to-one-from-bats-not-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/virus-in-chinese-outbreak-is-closest-to-one-from-bats-not-snakes","title":{"rendered":"Virus in Chinese outbreak is closest to one from bats, not snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virus-in-chinese-outbreak-is-closest-to-one-from-bats-not-snakes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the virus spreading through China is in the same family as SARS and closest to one found in bats. Discovery: Today, researchers led by Zheng-Li Shi at the Wuhan Institute for Virology posted a paper describing the virus in detail for the first time, including a picture of the virus infecting cells. The new virus, dubbed nCoV-2019, is in the same family as SARS\u2014a coronavirus that caused global mayhem starting in 2003\u2014and even uses the same receptor to hack into a person\u2019s lung cells, Li\u2019s team found.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Discovery: Today, researchers led by Zheng-Li Shi at the Wuhan Institute for Virology posted a paper describing the virus in detail for the first time, including a picture of the virus infecting cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say the virus spreading through China is in the same family as SARS and closest to one found in bats. Discovery: Today, researchers led by Zheng-Li Shi at the Wuhan Institute for Virology posted a paper describing the virus in detail for the first time, including a picture of the virus infecting cells. The [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101318","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=101318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101372,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101318\/revisions\/101372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}