{"id":11055,"date":"2019-11-13T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/13\/two-people-diagnosed-with-pneumonic-plague-in-china"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:27:16","slug":"two-people-diagnosed-with-pneumonic-plague-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11055","title":{"rendered":"Two people diagnosed with pneumonic plague in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities working to contain outbreak of disease that is worse than bubonic plague<\/p>\n<p>Two people in China have been diagnosed with plague, the latest cases of a disease more commonly associated with historical catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Plague is caused by the bacterium <em>Yersinia pestis<\/em> and can arise in three forms \u2013 a lung infection, known as pneumonic plague; a blood infection, known as septicemic plague; and a form that affects the lymph nodes, called bubonic plague.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/13\/two-people-diagnosed-with-pneumonic-plague-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities working to contain outbreak of disease that is worse than bubonic plagueTwo people in China have been diagnosed with plague, the latest cases of a disease more commonly associated with historical catastrophe.Plague is caused by the bacteriu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,914,512,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11057,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}