{"id":83508,"date":"2018-10-10T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/michigan-wildlife-officials-warn-hunters-of-serious-contagious-disease-in-deer"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:04:19","slug":"michigan-wildlife-officials-warn-hunters-of-serious-contagious-disease-in-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/michigan-wildlife-officials-warn-hunters-of-serious-contagious-disease-in-deer","title":{"rendered":"Michigan wildlife officials warn hunters of \u2018serious contagious disease\u2019 in deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/michigan-wildlife-officials-warn-hunters-of-serious-contagious-disease-in-deer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heads up, hunting enthusiasts: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is warning hunters in the state to be wary of bovine tuberculosis in deer, a disease that\u2019s transmissible to humans, <a href=\"https:\/\/wsmh.com\/news\/local\/dnr-cautions-hunters-to-be-on-the-lookout-for-bovine-tuberculosis-in-deer\" target=\"_blank\">WSMH-News reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cserious contagious disease\u201d is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium bovis,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/bovine-tb\/\" target=\"_blank\"> according to Purdue University<\/a>. It\u2019s spread \u201cprimarily through the exchange of respiratory secretions between infected and uninfected animals,\u201d such as coughing or sneezing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/dnr\/0,4570,7-350-79136_79608_85016-99064--,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Michigan DNR.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/oklahoma-man-faces-charges-for-shooting-deer-hours-before-hunting-season-starts\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma Man Faces Charges For Shooting Deer Hours Before Hunting Season Starts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/michigan-wildlife-officials-warn-hunters-of-serious-contagious-disease-in-deer.amp#referrer=https:\/\/www.google.com\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/michigan-wildlife-off...google.com<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, hunting enthusiasts: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is warning hunters in the state to be wary of bovine tuberculosis in deer, a disease that\u2019s transmissible to humans, WSMH-News reported. The \u201cserious contagious disease\u201d is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium bovis, according to Purdue University. It\u2019s spread \u201cprimarily through the exchange of [\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-83508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83508","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=83508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}