{"id":774,"date":"2020-02-12T05:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=774"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:27:13","slug":"dammit-people-dammit-pangolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/12\/dammit-people-dammit-pangolin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dammit, People! Dammit Pangolin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-5.16.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-775\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-5.16.08-AM-877x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-5.16.08-AM-877x1024.png 877w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-5.16.08-AM-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-5.16.08-AM-768x897.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-5.16.08-AM.png 1094w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of researchers from South China Agricultural University found that samples from coronavirus patients were 99% identical to samples of the virus taken from wild pangolins, according to China&#8217;s official Xinhua news agency. Their research hasn&#8217;t been published or confirmed by other experts, but scientists say the results make sense, given what we know about the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Pangolins are often poached for their keratin scales, which used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Their meat is also considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>If bats drop feces or saliva onto food that&#8217;s consumed by a pangolin, the animal can become a carrier of the coronavirus. Humans can then be exposed by consuming pangolins before the virus is transmitted from person to person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.co.za\/what-is-a-pangolin-animal-spread-coronavirus-to-humans-2020-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everything we know about the pangolin \u2014 the scaly mammal that may have spread the coronavirus to humans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DqC3ieJJlFM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pangolins: The Most Trafficked Mammal You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of | National Geographic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers from South China Agricultural University found that samples from coronavirus patients were 99% identical to samples of the virus taken from wild pangolins, according to China&#8217;s official Xinhua news agency. Their research hasn&#8217;t been published or <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/02\/12\/dammit-people-dammit-pangolin\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}