{"id":1345,"date":"2014-01-25T19:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2014-01-25T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:46:43","slug":"rats-disease-vectors-or-disease-detectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/rats-disease-vectors-or-disease-detectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats disease vectors or disease detectives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laboratoryequipment.com\/news\/2014\/01\/rodents-can-find-landmines-tb-disaster-victims\">rodents being trained to detect disease, explosives and humans<\/a>\u00a0a fascinating read. \u00a0There is almost unlimited potential when it comes to applications. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airport screening for explosives<\/li>\n<li>Ports of entry for diseases of interest<\/li>\n<li>Remote medicine where you pack in your rat detector for the endemic diseases<\/li>\n<li>Building searches where service dogs are not available or circumstances prohibit their use<\/li>\n<li>Illegal meth lab detection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>[GARD]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found rodents being trained to detect disease, explosives and humans\u00a0a fascinating read. \u00a0There is almost unlimited potential when it comes to applications. For example: Airport screening for explosives Ports  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,28,29,33,36,38,41,43,44,49,56,75,78,80,83,96,97,108],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster-response","tag-disasters","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-management","tag-ems","tag-flu","tag-h1n1","tag-h9n2","tag-hospitals","tag-incident-response","tag-pandemic","tag-police","tag-pre-hospital-care","tag-public-health","tag-swine-flu","tag-terrorism","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}