{"id":85045,"date":"2018-11-23T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/international-space-station-infested-with-mysterious-space-bugs-leaving-astronauts-at-risk-of-serious-harm"},"modified":"2018-11-23T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T22:02:25","slug":"international-space-station-infested-with-mysterious-space-bugs-leaving-astronauts-at-risk-of-serious-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/international-space-station-infested-with-mysterious-space-bugs-leaving-astronauts-at-risk-of-serious-harm","title":{"rendered":"International Space Station infested with mysterious space bugs leaving astronauts at risk of \u2018serious harm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/international-space-station-infested-with-mysterious-space-bugs-leaving-astronauts-at-risk-of-serious-harm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE International Space Station is infested with mysterious space bugs that may be leaving astronauts at risk of \u2018serious harm\u2019, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists discovered a thriving ecosystem of \u201cinfectious organisms\u201d aboard the station which are similar to bugs found in hospitals on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\/\">NASA<\/a> team found five different varieties of Enterobacter, with researchers calculating that there is a \u201c79% probability that they may potentially cause disease\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/7810782\/international-space-station-mysterious-space-bugs-astronauts-risk-harm\/\">https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/7810782\/international-space-st...risk-harm\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE International Space Station is infested with mysterious space bugs that may be leaving astronauts at risk of \u2018serious harm\u2019, according to a new study. Scientists discovered a thriving ecosystem of \u201cinfectious organisms\u201d aboard the station which are similar to bugs found in hospitals on Earth. A NASA team found five different varieties of Enterobacter, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85045","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\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}