{"id":219,"date":"2005-03-14T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/hantavirus-bubonic-plague-and-west-nile-virus-in-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2005-03-14T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T21:30:37","slug":"hantavirus-bubonic-plague-and-west-nile-virus-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus, Bubonic Plague and West Nile Virus in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hantavirus, Plague May Start Early Because of Wet Winter\" href=\"http:\/\/abqjournal.com\/paperboy\/text\/health\/320821nm03-13-05.htm\">ABQjournal: Hantavirus, Plague May Start Early Because of Wet Winter<\/a> By Jackie Jadrnak, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Wet weather that has brought joy to skiers&#8217; and gardeners&#8217; hearts can have a down side. The moisture helps plants flourish that, in turn, nourish wild critters that sometimes carry diseases that can be passed to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of Hantavirus seem to rise after a wet winter and fall after a dry one&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Hantavirus isn&#8217;t the only concern. Health officials are on the lookout for what the mild, wet winter might portend for other animal- or insect-carried diseases.<\/p>\n<p>    Reports of plague often rise after such weather, although the effect can be delayed a year, Ettestad said. In other words, this winter might mean more plague cases in 2006. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess what the weather will mean for West Nile virus&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Hantavirus, Plague May Start Early Because of Wet Winter By Jackie Jadrnak, Journal Staff Writer Wet weather that has brought joy to skiers&#8217; and gardeners&#8217; hearts can have a down side. The moisture helps plants flourish that, in turn, nourish wild critters that sometimes carry diseases that can be passed to humans. Reports of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hantavirus, Bubonic Plague and West Nile Virus in New Mexico<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}