{"id":31,"date":"2007-02-16T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-02-16T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T09:11:53","slug":"do-you-remember-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/do-you-remember-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you remember&#8230; bird flu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I largely ignored avian flu the first time it came through the news cycle. At the time it seemed like Bird Flu was just another everybody-panic-now kind of news story designed to scare suburban soccer moms away from poultry. As I read about it over the last year I realized more and more that this is actually a pretty big deal and the rate at which it is spreading over the globe is, well, alarming. In fact, a good illustration of that is this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/shared\/spl\/hi\/world\/05\/bird_flu_map\/html\/1.stm\">interactive map<\/a> from the BBC. Pay particular attention to the jump in cases between January and June of 2006.<br \/>\nNot only is bird flu a big potential problem from a public health point of view, but economically, outbreaks of the virus can spell financial ruin as it has recently for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/6346905.stm\">these Suffolk turkey farmers<\/a>. As with other potentially explosive viral problems in the past (mad cow, Ebola, SARS) let&#8221;s hope that the world health community can keep a handle on this issue before, well, we all die. PANIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time it seemed like Bird Flu was just another everybody-panic-now kind of news story designed to scare suburban soccer moms away from poultry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}