{"id":3761,"date":"2014-07-25T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T15:21:00","slug":"convergent-evolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2014\/07\/25\/08\/21\/convergent-evolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergent Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First suspected <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/25\/us-heath-ebola-nigeria-idINKBN0FU1LE20140725\">Ebola case dies in quarantine in Nigeria after collapsing in the Lagos *International* Airport<\/a>. On the bright side, as is common with many highly lethal crowd diseases, this strain of Ebola seems to be evolving towards less lethality. Current mortality is now &#8220;only&#8221; 60%, vs 90+% for smaller outbreaks in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First suspected Ebola case dies in quarantine in Nigeria after collapsing in the Lagos *International* Airport. On the bright side, as is common with many highly lethal crowd diseases, this strain of Ebola seems&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[917],"tags":[1374,1409],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-ebola","tag-nigeria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}