{"id":82187,"date":"2018-08-29T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/china-races-to-corral-an-outbreak-of-deadly-african-swine-fever"},"modified":"2018-08-29T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:42:25","slug":"china-races-to-corral-an-outbreak-of-deadly-african-swine-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/china-races-to-corral-an-outbreak-of-deadly-african-swine-fever","title":{"rendered":"China races to corral an outbreak of deadly African swine fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-races-to-corral-an-outbreak-of-deadly-african-swine-fever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 Chinese officials are scrambling to stop a deadly African swine fever outbreak with the potential to ravage the country\u2019s pig population.<\/p>\n<p>Since early August, the virus \u2014 which does not threaten humans \u2014 has spread to four provinces and has been detected in areas about 750 miles apart. The budding epidemic could endanger the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of hog farmers and jeopardize China\u2019s enormous pork industry.<\/p>\n<p>China has about 700 million pigs, half the world\u2019s pig population. Pork is the country\u2019s primary protein source.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/china-races-to-corral-a-deadly-outbreak-of-african-swine-fever-before-it-spreads\/2018\/08\/29\/defbf39a-aad9-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/china-races-to-corral-a...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2014 Chinese officials are scrambling to stop a deadly African swine fever outbreak with the potential to ravage the country\u2019s pig population. Since early August, the virus \u2014 which does not threaten humans \u2014 has spread to four provinces and has been detected in areas about 750 miles apart. The budding epidemic could endanger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82187","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}