{"id":27241,"date":"2020-01-08T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T01:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27241"},"modified":"2020-01-08T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T01:59:44","slug":"word-of-the-day-529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/08\/word-of-the-day-529\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Zoonotic<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pertaining to a zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans. There are multitudes of zoonotic diseases. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Zoonoses may appear suddenly and be relatively virulent, as illustrated by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/human_immunodeficiency_virus_hiv\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\">HIV<\/a>\u00a0which ignited the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/acquired_immunodeficiency_syndrome_aids\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\">AIDS<\/a>\u00a0epidemic and the coronavirus responsible for the outbreak of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_sars\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\">SARS<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=12958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MedicineNet<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/specter-of-possible-new-virus-emerging-from-central-china-raises-alarms-across-asia\/2020\/01\/08\/3d33046c-312f-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Specter of possible new virus emerging from central China raises alarms across Asia<\/em><\/a>,&#8221;Gerry Shih and Lena H. Sun, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are no known U.S. cases or any cases in any countries outside China, the CDC said. \u201cBut outbreaks of unknown respiratory disease are always of concern, particularly when there are possible zoonotic origins to the outbreak,\u201d the CDC statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an informal example of <strong>Famous Last Words<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Xu Jianguo, a former top Chinese public health official, struck an assuring note and said the government\u2019s disease control capabilities today are much stronger than they were in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than a decade has passed,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible for something like SARS to happen again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoonotic: Pertaining to a zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans. There are multitudes of zoonotic diseases. &#8230; Zoonoses may appear suddenly and be relatively virulent, as illustrated by\u00a0HIV\u00a0which ignited the\u00a0AIDS\u00a0epidemic \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/08\/word-of-the-day-529\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27242,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241\/revisions\/27242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}