{"id":2542,"date":"2004-08-27T23:56:16","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T03:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/08\/27\/ebola-threatens-gorillas-too\/"},"modified":"2004-08-27T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T03:56:16","slug":"ebola-threatens-gorillas-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/27\/ebola-threatens-gorillas-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Threatens Gorillas, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3733'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sadsm.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"203\" align=\"left\"><\/em>August 27, 2004 (Torino, Italy) &#8211; Scientists fear that<br \/>\n        emerging evidence may suggest a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, which,<br \/>\n        in addition to threatening<br \/>\n  human lives, would threaten tens of thousands of great apes &quot;in this case<br \/>\n  gorillas and chimpanzees&quot; in the Republic of Congo. The announcement was made<br \/>\n  by the International Primatological Society (IPS) and Great Ape Survival Project<br \/>\n  (GRASP) at the IPS&#8217;s 20th Congress, being held this week in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Fewer than 100,000 western lowland gorillas remain on Earth.<br \/>\n        A study published in the journal Nature last year suggested that when<br \/>\n        an ebola<br \/>\n          outbreak affects a given area, more than 80 percent of all great apes<br \/>\n      living in that area die of the disease<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2004-08\/ci-sfn082704.php\">Conservation International<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27, 2004 (Torino, Italy) &#8211; Scientists fear that emerging evidence may suggest a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, which, in addition to threatening human lives, would threaten tens of thousands of great apes &quot;in this case gorillas and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/27\/ebola-threatens-gorillas-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}