{"id":99422,"date":"2019-12-07T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/sickness-like-mad-cow-disease-is-spreading-in-deer-and-could-infect-humans"},"modified":"2019-12-07T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:24:24","slug":"sickness-like-mad-cow-disease-is-spreading-in-deer-and-could-infect-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/sickness-like-mad-cow-disease-is-spreading-in-deer-and-could-infect-humans","title":{"rendered":"Sickness like mad cow disease is spreading in deer \u2014 and could infect humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sickness-like-mad-cow-disease-is-spreading-in-deer-and-could-infect-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A DEADLY infection similar to mad cow disease is spreading in deer \u2014 and could infect humans, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are monitoring cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD), which attacks the brain, spinal cord and other tissue, in North America.<\/p>\n<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the disease \u2014 sometimes referred to as \u2018zombie deer\u2019 \u2014 has now spread to at least 26 states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DEADLY infection similar to mad cow disease is spreading in deer \u2014 and could infect humans, experts have warned. Officials are monitoring cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD), which attacks the brain, spinal cord and other tissue, in North America. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the disease \u2014 sometimes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99422","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}