{"id":1552,"date":"2020-05-21T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/?page_id=1552"},"modified":"2020-05-21T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:25:17","slug":"survey-of-coronaviruses-in-brown-bears","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/projects\/bearhealth\/survey-of-coronaviruses-in-brown-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey of coronaviruses in brown bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For three years before the COVID-19 outbreak our Croatian collaborators together with a leader of our project have been doing the routine checks on the exposure of brown bears in Croatia to the longer list of viral (and other) pathogens. That included alfa-coronavirus that affect the intestinal tract. Around 300 bear blood samples were tested, and all were negative. We have an intention to test the bear samples also to beta-coronavirus (the virus causing COVID-19 disease belongs to that group). However, that will be possible only after the pandemic stops, as now the lab we cooperate with is busy with human samples.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1542\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload fadein size-medium wp-image-1542\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039;%20width%3D&#039;300&#039;%20height%3D&#039;169&#039;%20viewBox%3D&#039;0%200%20300%20169&#039;%20%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/news_2020_bearhealth_4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/news_2020_bearhealth_4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/news_2020_bearhealth_4-300x169.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1542\" src=\"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/news_2020_bearhealth_4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PCR tests work by detecting specific genetic material within the virus. (Image: \u00a9 Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The work on viral pathogens is being done by dr. Vladimir Stevanovic at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb, within the BearHealth project and previous projects on brown bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For three years before the COVID-19 outbreak our Croatian collaborators together with a leader of our project have been doing the routine checks on the exposure of brown bears in Croatia to the longer list of viral (and other) pathogens. That included alfa-coronavirus that affect the intestinal tract. Around 300 bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":950,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions\/1553"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}