{"id":866,"date":"2015-01-30T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T23:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2016-02-17T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T04:52:30","slug":"nightmare-fuel-10-of-the-cdcs-deadliest-stockpiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare Fuel: 10 of the CDC&#8217;s Deadliest Stockpiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/diaseases-conditions\/infectious\/10-deadly-agents-the-cdc-works-with.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Flea_Scanning_Electron_Micrograph_False_Color.jpg\/186px-Flea_Scanning_Electron_Micrograph_False_Color.jpg\" alt=\"False-color scanning electron micrograph of a flea, the carrier for several infectious diseases, including Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium.\" width=\"186\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">False-color scanning electron micrograph of a flea, the carrier for several infectious diseases, including Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium. Image courtesy the CDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has to walk a fine line. Saving people from the nastiest infectious diseases and bioterror attacks\u00a0requires that they study those same viruses and bacteria. But even in one of the most carefully controlled and well-equipped facilities on Earth, items are occasionally mishandled or misplaced.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the worst that could happen? It&#8217;s not a rhetorical question when we take a tour of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/diaseases-conditions\/infectious\/10-deadly-agents-the-cdc-works-with.htm\" target=\"_blank\">10 Deadly Agents the CDC Works With<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has to walk a fine line. Saving people from the nastiest infectious diseases and bioterror attacks\u00a0requires that they study those same viruses and bacteria. But even in one of the most carefully controlled and well-equipped facilities on Earth, items are occasionally mishandled or misplaced. What&#8217;s the worst that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nightmare Fuel: 10 of the CDC&#8217;s Deadliest Stockpiles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,82,67,475,3,30],"tags":[541,1000,999,1001,25,68,732,1002],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-health","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-science","category-top-10","tag-bacteria","tag-brain-eating-amoeba","tag-cdc","tag-filovirus","tag-nature","tag-pathology","tag-vaccination","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}