{"id":3898,"date":"2014-10-24T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:17:12","slug":"the-9-deadliest-viruses-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/2014\/10\/the-9-deadliest-viruses-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tools-txt\"><strong>Original article from:<\/strong> <em>LiveScience <\/em>posted on October 23, 2014. By Anne Harding<\/p>\n<p>Humans have been battling viruses since before our species had even evolved into its modern form. For some viral diseases, vaccines and antiviral drugs have allowed us to keep infections from spreading widely, and have helped sick people recover. For one disease \u2014 smallpox \u2014 we&#8217;ve been able to eradicate it, ridding the world of new cases.<\/p>\n<p>But as the <a data-ls-seen=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48235-ebola-outbreak-news.html\">Ebola outbreak now devastating West Africa<\/a> demonstrates, we&#8217;re a long way from winning the fight against viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The strain that is driving the current epidemic, Ebola Zaire, kills up to 90 percent of the people it infects, making it the most lethal <a data-ls-seen=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48234-how-ebola-got-its-name.html\">member of the Ebola family<\/a>. &#8220;It couldn&#8217;t be worse,&#8221; said Elke Muhlberger, an Ebola virus expert and associate professor of microbiology at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48386-deadliest-viruses-on-earth.html\">Read Full Article on LiveScience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article from: LiveScience posted on October 23, 2014. By&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3075,1298],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}