{"id":37722,"date":"2016-02-18T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37722"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:00:47","slug":"brock-receives-zika-virus-for-testing-researcher-to-meet-with-media-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/02\/brock-receives-zika-virus-for-testing-researcher-to-meet-with-media-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock receives Zika virus for testing; researcher to meet with media Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A press conference will be held at Brock Friday morning as\u00a0scientist Fiona Hunter, one of Canada\u2019s key researchers on the Zika virus, will answer questions about the school&#8217;s involvement in Zika research.<\/p>\n<p>Containers of the Zika virus were received at Brock this week from the Public Health Agency of Canada so that Hunter, a renowned entomologist, can lead research on whether Canadian mosquitos are able to become infected and can transmit the Zika virus. Brock is the only university in Canada with a CL3 containment lab that includes an insectiary, which safely allows for this type of research to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s media conference will take place at 10 a.m. in the\u00a0main atrium of the Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex. It will\u00a0also be streamed live online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/brockuniversity\">livestream.com\/brockuniversity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A press conference will be held at Brock Friday morning as scientist Fiona Hunter, one of Canada\u2019s key researchers on the Zika virus, will answer questions about the school&#8217;s involvement in Zika research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":37723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1,5],"tags":[1356,3834,3773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37724,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722\/revisions\/37724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}