{"id":57,"date":"2016-03-28T20:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:44:48","slug":"bovine-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/28\/bovine-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bovine Tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(WARNING: This post contains a graphic image!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is bovine tuberculosis (bTB)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highly infectious, chronic respiratory disease<\/li>\n<li>Caused by the bacteria,\u00a0<em>Mycobacterium bovis<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Results in granulomatous lesions in respiratory tract and infected organs, and potentially death<\/li>\n<li>Affects livestock, wildlife, and domestic animals, as well as humans<\/li>\n<li>Has potential to greatly damage livestock\u00a0industries as infected cattle must be culled to prevent widespread outbreak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/images\/deerribs_74486_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deer infected with bTB, with numerous lesions on the lungs and ribs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WARNING: This post contains a graphic image!) What is bovine tuberculosis (bTB)? Highly infectious, chronic respiratory disease Caused by the bacteria,\u00a0Mycobacterium bovis Results in granulomatous lesions in respiratory tract and infected organs, and potentially death Affects livestock, wildlife, and domestic animals, as well as humans Has potential to greatly damage livestock\u00a0industries as infected cattle must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/2016\/03\/28\/bovine-tuberculosis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bovine Tuberculosis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599456],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bovine-tuberculosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/badgered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}