{"id":2831,"date":"2010-09-27T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2010-09-28T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:13:28","slug":"possible-cure-for-white-nose-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/27\/possible-cure-for-white-nose-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible cure for White Nose Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State health officials say they\u2019ve identified chemical compounds that could help bats fight off White Nose Syndrome. This is the disease that\u2019s killed hundreds of thousands\u2014possibly millions\u2014of bats across New York and the eastern U.S.<\/p>\n<p>New York health commissioner Richard Daines says researchers identified what he called \u201csafe chemical compounds\u201d that can help fight off the cottony white substance that develops around an infected bat\u2019s snout and wings.<\/p>\n<p>Health department researchers identified a specific fungus believed to cause White Nose Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>These researchers found drugs used to treat common human infections\u2014like athlete\u2019s foot\u2014were what they called \u201chighly effective\u201d in fighting White Nose in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more this afternoon on All Before Five at 4:45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York State health officials say they\u2019ve identified chemical compounds that could help bats fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}