{"id":4621,"date":"2020-05-04T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/school-of-informatics-computing-and-cyber-systems\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:29:51","slug":"novel-nau-study-shows-past-extinctions-have-increased-the-number-of-present-day-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/novel-nau-study-shows-past-extinctions-have-increased-the-number-of-present-day-infectious-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel NAU study shows past extinctions have increased the number of present-day infectious diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-4622 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/nauNews4_30_20-464x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SICCS assistant professor Chris Doughty has long\u00a0<span class=\"il\">studied<\/span> megafauna and their role on planet Earth. With the world fighting the spread of COVID-19, Doughty and his team have turned to these large mammals for answers. They found that their extinction led to the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases in humans. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nau.edu\/past-extinctions-increased-infectious-diseases\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=5-1-20%20edition&amp;utm_campaign=NAUNews&amp;utm_term=internal&amp;utm_content=Doughty_research_L#.XrBQ1mhKiUm\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SICCS assistant professor Chris Doughty has long\u00a0studied megafauna and their role on planet Earth. With the world fighting the spread of COVID-19, Doughty and his team have turned to these large mammals for answers. They found that their extinction led to the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases in humans. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[76,30,28],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-covid-19","tag-research","tag-siccs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}