{"id":586734,"date":"2019-03-04T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cb437d68b9d8654c5d84105d11a8e144"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:20:01","slug":"scientists-provide-first-evidence-of-diphtheria-like-infectious-agent-in-hedgehogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=586734","title":{"rendered":"Scientists provide first evidence of diphtheria-like infectious agent in hedgehogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As cultural successors, hedgehogs reside in close proximity to humans. Close contacts, however, can bear risks for animals and humans. Road traffic, lawn mowers and infectious agents threaten the prickly insect eaters. Some infectious agents can be transmitted to humans. Considerate treatment of wildlife and appropriate hygiene measures minimize the risk of infection. A recent study has identified Corynebacterium ulcerans\u2014a close relative of the diphtheria causing bacterium\u2014in hedgehogs. The study is published in Emerging Microbes &#038; Infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cultural successors, hedgehogs reside in close proximity to humans. Close contacts, however, can bear risks for animals and humans. Road traffic, lawn mowers and infectious agents threaten the prickly insect eaters. Some infectious agents can be transmitted to humans. Considerate treatment of wildlife and appropriate hygiene measures minimize the risk of infection. A recent study has identified Corynebacterium ulcerans&mdash;a close relative of the diphtheria causing bacterium&mdash;in hedgehogs. The study is published in Emerging Microbes &amp; Infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586735,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586734\/revisions\/586735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}