{"id":8012,"date":"2020-04-23T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:11:29","slug":"china-bat-expert-says-her-wuhan-lab-wasnt-source-of-new-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8012","title":{"rendered":"China Bat Expert Says Her Wuhan Lab Wasn\u2019t Source of New Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/chinas-bats-expert-says-her-wuhan-lab-wasnt-source-of-new-coronavirus-11587463204\">James Areddy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the past 15 years, Chinese scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%E2%80%9Cshi+zhengli%E2%80%9D&#038;t=brave&#038;ia=news\">Shi Zhengli<\/a> has warned the world\u2014in English, Chinese and French\u2014that bats harbor coronaviruses that pose serious risks to human health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The flying mammals are a likely culprit in the pandemic now sweeping the globe, and Dr. Shi and her laboratories in Wuhan, where the outbreak was first identified, have attracted suspicion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Areddy: For the past 15 years, Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli has warned the world\u2014in English, Chinese and French\u2014that bats harbor coronaviruses that pose serious risks to human health. The flying mammals are a likely culprit in the pandemic now sweeping the globe, and Dr. Shi and her laboratories in Wuhan, where the outbreak was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}