{"id":10095,"date":"2013-05-21T22:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:08:31","slug":"a-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-tuesday-played-down-shock-horror-scenarios-that-a-newvirus-strain-will-emerge-with-the-potential-to-kill-millions-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=10095","title":{"rendered":"A Nobel prize-winning scientist Tuesday played down &#8220;shock-horror scenarios&#8221; that a newvirus strain will emerge with the potential to kill millions of people."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A-Nobel-prize-winning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10093\" alt=\"A Nobel prize-winning\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A-Nobel-prize-winning.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Peter Doherty, who jointly won the Nobel prize in 1996 for his work on how the immune system combats virus-infected cells, said the worst-case scenario was a new virus with a high mortality rate that was also highly infectious.<br \/>\nThe Australian said the world experienced such a pandemic in 1918, when an influenza variant killed an estimated 50 million people, more than twice the number who died in World War I.<br \/>\nDoherty said it was possible such an outbreak could occur again but it was unlikely to have such devastating consequences.<br \/>\n&#8220;A lot of the (1918) deaths were undoubtedly due to secondary bacterial infection and, of course, we have antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infection now,&#8221; he said at a lecture at Otago University&#8217;s Wellington campus.<br \/>\n&#8220;In the pandemic world we all look to these shock-horror scenarios &#8212; it makes good television, there&#8217;s a lot of books about these terrible infections that are going to kill us all off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Doherty, who jointly won the Nobel prize in 1996 for his work on how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,179,224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-more","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}