{"id":548,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/fears-grow-about-brain-attacking-virus-that-is-carried-by-sloths\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","slug":"fears-grow-about-brain-attacking-virus-that-is-carried-by-sloths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/fears-grow-about-brain-attacking-virus-that-is-carried-by-sloths\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears grow about brain-attacking virus that is carried by sloths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-06-25 14:53:12<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Concerns are growing over a brain-attacking virus that is carried by sloths.<BR><br \/>\nInfections of the Oropouche virus are emerging far away from the Amazon rainforest and scientists fear that areas in Central and South America could be at risk of rapid outbreaks.<BR><br \/>\nOropouche infections are typically mild &#8211; with symptoms similar to Dengue fever including headaches and nausea &#8211; but the virus is capable of attacking the brain and causing potentially deadly meningitis.<BR><br \/>\nOutbreaks have been reported in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and even as far away as Cuba &#8211; which reported its first cases of Oropouche in May.<BR><br \/>\nDanny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, believes &#8220;we should all be worried&#8221; about the spread of diseases like Oropouche.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;Oropouche is certainly a worry for its uncertainty and, for all those worried about global health, it just feels like climate change is adding to the healthcare burden in a very palpable way, season by season.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-06-25 14:53:12 Concerns are growing over a brain-attacking virus that is carried by sloths. Infections of the Oropouche virus are emerging far away from the Amazon rainforest and scientists fear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}