{"id":106477,"date":"2020-05-03T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/deforestation-and-fires-in-the-amazon-rainforest-could-bring-about-the-next-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-05-03T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:05:39","slug":"deforestation-and-fires-in-the-amazon-rainforest-could-bring-about-the-next-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/deforestation-and-fires-in-the-amazon-rainforest-could-bring-about-the-next-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest could bring about the next pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deforestation-and-fires-in-the-amazon-rainforest-could-bring-about-the-next-pandemic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, swept the world fast and furiously \u2014 and we\u2019re barely starting to experience the first wave of the pandemic. However, to biologists and virologists, the sudden appearance of the coronavirus wasn\u2019t surprising. It is simply a natural consequence of humans disturbing ecosystems in equilibrium and wildlife trade, something that we\u2019ve done at an increasing rate with each passing decade.<\/p>\n<p>Pandemics such as COVID-19 might become increasingly frequent as humans continue unabated on their course to expand their range at the expense of wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>High rates of deforestation in Asia over the last four decades have prompted many scientists to sound the alarm, warning the world of the risk of dangerous microorganisms migrating to humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, swept the world fast and furiously \u2014 and we\u2019re barely starting to experience the first wave of the pandemic. However, to biologists and virologists, the sudden appearance of the coronavirus wasn\u2019t surprising. It is simply a natural consequence of humans disturbing ecosystems in equilibrium and wildlife trade, something [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106477","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}