{"id":940,"date":"2016-03-01T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2016-03-05T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:04:00","slug":"education-film-38b-zika-virus-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Education Film 38b: Zika Virus and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/diseases-conditions\/infectious\/zika-virus.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f1\/Aedes_aegypti_bloodfeeding_CDC_Gathany.jpg\" alt=\"The Zika-spreading mosquito Aedes aegypti takes a bloodmeal.\" width=\"233\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Zika-spreading mosquito Aedes aegypti takes a bloodmeal. Photo courtesy CDC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zika virus is spreading through a hemisphere with plenty of mosquito habitat and no immunity to the disease, and summer is on its way. But what really chills the blood and drives our dread of what was once considered &#8220;dengue&#8217;s wimpy cousin&#8221; is the virus&#8217;s horrifying, yet unproven, link to infant microcephaly.<\/p>\n<p>And so, even as epidemiologists struggle to contain and understand the problem, the news swarms\u00a0with disturbing images and calls for wiping out the offending mosquito vectors. Clearly, if we&#8217;re going to get through this, we need to do our homework. Why not start with my article, in which I cut through the buzz\u00a0to explore &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health.howstuffworks.com\/diseases-conditions\/infectious\/zika-virus.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How Zika Virus Works<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zika virus is spreading through a hemisphere with plenty of mosquito habitat and no immunity to the disease, and summer is on its way. But what really chills the blood and drives our dread of what was once considered &#8220;dengue&#8217;s wimpy cousin&#8221; is the virus&#8217;s horrifying, yet unproven, link to infant microcephaly. And so, even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education Film 38b: Zika Virus and You<\/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":[22,82,67,3,49],"tags":[1089,1087,1084,72,1083,17,1085,1088,1090,23,1086,1082,68,51,853],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-health","category-medicine","category-science","category-water-issues","tag-aedes","tag-arbovirus","tag-chikungunya","tag-climate-change","tag-dengue","tag-environment","tag-epidemic","tag-flavivirus","tag-guillain-barre","tag-insects","tag-microcephaly","tag-mosquito","tag-pathology","tag-water","tag-yellow-fever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}