{"id":155973,"date":"2023-01-22T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-find-leprosy-bacteria-could-be-force-for-good"},"modified":"2023-01-22T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T17:22:46","slug":"scientists-find-leprosy-bacteria-could-be-force-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-find-leprosy-bacteria-could-be-force-for-good","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scientists find leprosy bacteria could be force for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-leprosy-bacteria-could-be-force-for-good.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Miriam Stoppard writes how the ancient infection leprosy \u2014 once such a disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled \u2014 could now help people\u2019s health Leprosy is an ancient infection, common in biblical times, causing such disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled to isolated colonies miles from anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Miriam Stoppard writes how the ancient infection leprosy \u2014 once such a disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled \u2014 could now help people\u2019s health Leprosy is an ancient infection, common in biblical times, causing such disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled to isolated colonies miles from anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155973","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}