{"id":104975,"date":"2020-04-08T17:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bat-man-hunting-down-covid-19-and-other-deadly-viruses"},"modified":"2020-04-08T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:22:49","slug":"bat-man-hunting-down-covid-19-and-other-deadly-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bat-man-hunting-down-covid-19-and-other-deadly-viruses","title":{"rendered":"Bat Man: Hunting Down COVID-19 and other Deadly Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mTOInXl37SE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re curious about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to animals, I\u2019d like to recommend an excellent interview with a bat virus expert who was in Wuhan, China at ground zero in mid-January. He has been involved in a series of investigations of viral epidemics since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Linfa Wang, director of the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at the collaborative Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Ira Pastor Comments:<\/p>\n<p>As we sit here in 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 global pandemic, we\u2019re hearing terms like \u201czoonotic disease,\u201d \u201cviral spillover,\u201d \u201cintermediate species,\u201cas well as quite a bit of references to bats, the potential natural reservoir of COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>As such, a leading global thought leader at the epicenter of these domains has taken the time out of his busy schedule to join us for our episode today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bat-man-hunting-down-covid-19-and-other-deadly-viruses\">Continue reading \u201cBat Man: Hunting Down COVID-19 and other Deadly Viruses\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re curious about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to animals, I\u2019d like to recommend an excellent interview with a bat virus expert who was in Wuhan, China at ground zero in mid-January. He has been involved in a series of investigations of viral epidemics since the mid-1990s. Ira Pastor, ideaXme [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104975","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\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}