{"id":97837,"date":"2019-10-25T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T22:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/lab-tech-accidentally-injects-herself-with-smallpox-related-virus"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T22:24:24","slug":"lab-tech-accidentally-injects-herself-with-smallpox-related-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/lab-tech-accidentally-injects-herself-with-smallpox-related-virus","title":{"rendered":"Lab Tech Accidentally Injects Herself with Smallpox-Related Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-tech-accidentally-injects-herself-with-smallpox-related-virus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lab worker in San Diego became infected with a smallpox-related virus, known as the vaccinia virus, after she accidentally stuck her finger with a needle, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The infection caused the tip of the woman\u2019s finger to swell and turn black. Her case is unique because it marks the first time that doctors have used tecovirimat \u2014 a recently approved drug for smallpox \u2014 to treat a laboratory-acquired infection with vaccinia virus, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lab worker in San Diego became infected with a smallpox-related virus, known as the vaccinia virus, after she accidentally stuck her finger with a needle, according to a new report. The infection caused the tip of the woman\u2019s finger to swell and turn black. Her case is unique because it marks the first time [\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-97837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97837","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=97837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}