{"id":1090,"date":"2019-05-15T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2022-08-13T15:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T13:54:40","slug":"liberias-taste-for-bushmeat-survives-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Liberia&#8217;s taste for bushmeat survives Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC02243-1024x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1072\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/3IX7y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World in Progress\/Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, scientists announced that, for the first time, they had found a deadly strain of Ebola in a bat in Liberia. It&#8217;s a significant discovery that could shed light on how the virus infects humans. But in Liberia, where bushmeat is a major source of protein, it doesn&#8217;t appear to have weakened people&#8217;s appetites for bats. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports from Gbarnga, Liberia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/3IX7y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the full report here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World in Progress\/Deutsche Welle In January, scientists announced that, for the first time, they had found a deadly strain of Ebola in a bat in Liberia. It&#8217;s a significant discovery that could shed light on how the virus infects humans. But in Liberia, where bushmeat is a major source of protein, it doesn&#8217;t appear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,171],"tags":[99,100,182,216,243,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}