{"id":7124,"date":"2017-06-17T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2017-06-16T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:43:41","slug":"a-few-genetic-tweaks-to-chinese-bird-flu-virus-could-fuel-a-human-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7124","title":{"rendered":"A Few Genetic Tweaks To Chinese Bird Flu Virus Could Fuel A Human Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nell Greenfield Boyce)<\/p>\n<p>A study published Thursday shows how a bird flu virus that&#8217;s sickening and killing people in China could mutate to potentially become more contagious. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/06\/15\/532925945\/just-small-genetic-tweaks-to-chinese-bird-flu-virus-could-fuel-a-human-pandemic?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=53209539&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-844pp09JWSb9lXfIuXIGpSOhmUXVCtBz97xsF24p324xS242hEGxfNXXAvfcGemQg58HBC5toYaf-5X8GDxoh6Kiff8w&amp;_hsmi=53209539\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nell Greenfield Boyce) A study published Thursday shows how a bird flu virus that&#8217;s sickening and killing people in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}