{"id":41497,"date":"2022-02-09T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/hamsters-can-transmit-covid-to-humans-data-suggests"},"modified":"2022-02-09T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:00:09","slug":"hamsters-can-transmit-covid-to-humans-data-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41497","title":{"rendered":"Hamsters can transmit Covid to humans, data suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research confirms a pet shop was the likely source of the recent Delta variant outbreak in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pet hamsters can transmit Covid to humans and are the likely source of a recent outbreak of the Delta variant in Hong Kong, data suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The research confirms fears that a pet shop was the source of a recent Covid outbreak in the city, which has seen at least 50 people infected and led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/hong-kong-hamster-covid-cull\">culling<\/a> of more than 2,200 hamsters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/08\/hamsters-can-transmit-covid-to-humans-data-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research confirms a pet shop was the likely source of the recent Delta variant outbreak in Hong KongCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePet hamsters can transmit Covid to humans and are the likely source of a recent outbreak of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1644,"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":[41,918,1066,48,914,512,916,284,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-pets","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\/41497","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\/1644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41498,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions\/41498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}