{"id":905718,"date":"2026-05-14T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/were-less-prepared-for-contagious-pathogens-the-us-has-degraded-its-ability-to-track-and-squash-outbreaks-emory-epidemiologist-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:21:12","slug":"were-less-prepared-for-contagious-pathogens-the-us-has-degraded-its-ability-to-track-and-squash-outbreaks-emory-epidemiologist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/were-less-prepared-for-contagious-pathogens-the-us-has-degraded-its-ability-to-track-and-squash-outbreaks-emory-epidemiologist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re less prepared for contagious pathogens&#8217;: The US has degraded its ability to track and squash outbreaks, Emory epidemiologist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Live Science spoke with a leading epidemiologist from Emory University about her impressions of how the hantavirus outbreak is being managed in the U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/viruses-infections-disease\/were-less-prepared-for-contagious-pathogens-the-us-has-degraded-its-ability-to-track-and-squash-outbreaks-emory-epidemiologist-says\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Dion Michaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Live Science spoke with a leading epidemiologist from Emory University about her impressions of how the hantavirus outbreak is being managed in the U.S&#8230;Read MoreDion Michaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24091,536,2882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prepared","category-science-nature","category-were"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}