{"id":550,"date":"2007-12-09T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/09\/health-news-1\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T12:30:46","slug":"health-news-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/health-news-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ebola in Uganda:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news116335007.html\">New Ebola fatalities push Uganda toll to 25: official<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A dreaded Ebola outbreak has killed two people, bringing the toll to 25 in western Uganda, an official said Saturday, as health teams battled to contain the virulent strain in the region.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news116335007.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>With the outbreak earlier in the year in DRC, and this outbreak, this is a big year for Ebola.  Some time soon, someone is going to have to go and figure out where this disease resides in the wild.  I&#8217;m betting on it being a plant virus that reaches human populations through a number of different routes, including but not limited to fruit bats.  I will be very interesting to see how this particular strain, which is very different in its presentation from other strains, relates at a phylogenetic level from what is already know.  (If, indeed, it ends up actually being Ebola proper as opposed to something closely related).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news116246264.html\">Father of bird flu victim tests positive: China<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>The father of a man in China who died this week of bird flu has also tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the disease, the country&#8217;s health ministry reported on Friday.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news116246264.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news116336186.html\">Britain warns of homeopathic risks<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A top British health official says people who use homeopathic medicines could be causing themselves more harm than good.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news116336186.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebola in Uganda: New Ebola fatalities push Uganda toll to 25: official from PhysOrg.com A dreaded Ebola outbreak has killed two people, bringing the toll to 25 in western Uganda, an official said Saturday, as health teams battled to contain the virulent strain in the region.[&#8230;] With the outbreak earlier in the year in DRC, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/health-news-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health News<\/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":[],"tags":[103],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}