{"id":1785,"date":"2005-09-30T02:01:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/bird_flu\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T02:01:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:01:12","slug":"bird_flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/bird_flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the &#8220;War on Terror,&#8221; missing white women, or liberal activist judges, <a title=\"Bird flu may kill 150m, warns U.N.\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/09\/29\/birdflu.un\/\">this<\/a> is something everyone can legitimately be worried about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A global influenza pandemic could come at any time and claim anywhere between 5 million and 150 million lives, depending on steps the world takes now to control the bird flu in Asia, the United Nations said.<br \/>\nAdditionally, the bird flu virus is likely to mutate into a strain that can be passed person to person, Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organization told reporters at a Thursday news conference at the United Nations in New York.<br \/>\n&#8220;We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now, and it&#8217;s likely to be caused by a mutant of the virus that is currently causing bird flu in Asia,&#8221; Nabarro said in a report from The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2005\/9\/29\/231844\/650\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/09\/bird_flu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bird Flu\"><p>Unlike the &#8220;War on Terror,&#8221; missing white women, or liberal activist judges, this is something everyone can legitimately be worried about: A global influenza pandemic could come at any time and claim anywhere between 5 million and 150 million lives, depending on steps the world takes now to control the bird flu in Asia, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}