{"id":210410,"date":"2025-04-02T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/bird-flu-could-be-on-the-cusp-of-transmitting-between-humans-%e2%88%92-but-there-are-ways-to-slow-down-viral-evolution"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:03:58","slug":"bird-flu-could-be-on-the-cusp-of-transmitting-between-humans-%e2%88%92-but-there-are-ways-to-slow-down-viral-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/bird-flu-could-be-on-the-cusp-of-transmitting-between-humans-%e2%88%92-but-there-are-ways-to-slow-down-viral-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu could be on the cusp of transmitting between humans \u2212 but there are ways to slow down viral evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bird-flu-could-be-on-the-cusp-of-transmitting-between-humans-e28892-but-there-are-ways-to-slow-down-viral-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It\u2019s a sign that a pandemic may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It\u2019s a sign that a pandemic may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210410","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}