{"id":310,"date":"2012-01-23T17:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2012-01-23T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:36:26","slug":"scientist-mutated-h5n1-will-it-be-deadly-or-defeated-would-you-get-the-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/scientist-mutated-h5n1-will-it-be-deadly-or-defeated-would-you-get-the-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Mutated H5N1 &#8211; Will it be deadly or defeated? Would You Get The Shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After scientists discovered the mutation sequencing necessary to make the virulent H5N1 virus transmissible to humans, the next logical step is to create a vaccine which at a minimum protects scientists working with the organism.\u00a0 The debate about should they or shouldn&#8217;t they release their research\u00a0 will continue as a generalized topic of working with any pandemic capable organism.\u00a0 The question now is, should a vaccine be developed to protect people against it?<\/p>\n<p>Influenza in general is viewed by many as a &#8220;nuisance&#8221; disease and nothing to get worked up about. I wonder how many would actually line up for a vaccine against the scientifically mutated H5N1.\u00a0 Quite possible there could be some cross protection from a naturally mutated strain that evolves in the future, but is the hypothetical risk of the organism getting lose by accident or terrorist intent enough to make a vaccination campaign be undertaken?<\/p>\n<p>Would you get the shot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After scientists discovered the mutation sequencing necessary to make the virulent H5N1 virus transmissible to humans, the next logical step is to create a vaccine which at a minimum protects  [&#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":[11,26,34,36,38,41,43,49,57,75,80,83,97,108],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster","tag-elected-officials","tag-emergency-management","tag-ems","tag-flu","tag-h1n1","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-pandemic","tag-pre-hospital-care","tag-public-health","tag-terrorism","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}