{"id":26973,"date":"2009-08-25T20:22:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/25\/the-falsehoods-come-home-to-ro\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T21:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:49:04","slug":"the-falsehoods-come-home-to-ro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/25\/the-falsehoods-come-home-to-ro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Falsehoods Come Home to Roost: Dirty Foreign Germs In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Parasitic infections and other diseases usually associated with the developing world are cropping up with alarming frequency among U.S. poor, especially in states along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South and in Appalachia, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Government and private researchers are just beginning to assess the toll of the infections, which are a significant cause of heart disease, seizures and congenital birth defects among black and Hispanic populations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125090339313750961.html\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasitic infections and other diseases usually associated with the developing world are cropping up with alarming frequency among U.S. poor, especially in states along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South and in Appalachia, according to researchers. Government and private researchers are just beginning to assess the toll of the infections, which are a significant cause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/25\/the-falsehoods-come-home-to-ro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Falsehoods Come Home to Roost: Dirty Foreign Germs In America<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5025,5048,5046],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-713","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28211,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973\/revisions\/28211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}