{"id":27166,"date":"2009-09-22T02:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/22\/u-chicago-prof-dies-of-plague\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T02:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T02:17:44","slug":"u-chicago-prof-dies-of-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/u-chicago-prof-dies-of-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"U Chicago Prof Dies of Plague?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An American scientist studying the origins of Black Death has died from an infection linked to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Malcolm Casadaban was killed by a strain of the bacteria responsible for millions of deaths over the centuries, officials at the University of Chicago revealed.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy on the 60-year-old professor showed no obvious cause of death, except for the presence in his blood of the bacteria Yersinia pestis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This strain of the plague is not thought to be fatal.  It has actually been used as a vaccine. Obviously, there may have been complications of some kind.  There is no known risk to the public associated wiht this incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American scientist studying the origins of Black Death has died from an infection linked to the disease. Professor Malcolm Casadaban was killed by a strain of the bacteria responsible for millions of deaths over the centuries, officials at the University of Chicago revealed. An autopsy on the 60-year-old professor showed no obvious cause of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/u-chicago-prof-dies-of-plague\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U Chicago Prof Dies of Plague?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-74a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166"}],"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=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}