{"id":7748,"date":"2018-10-12T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/12\/chronic-wasting-disease\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:16:13","slug":"chronic-wasting-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/chronic-wasting-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina wildlife officials consider new hunting rule to keep deadly deer disease at bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-pb-span8 td-main-content\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"td-ss-main-content\">\n<article id=\"post-117260\" class=\"post-117260 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured category-news tag-chronic-wasting-disease tag-cwd tag-furman-university tag-scdnr tag-south-carolina-department-of-natural-resources tag-white-tailed-deer\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<p>Chronic wasting disease isn&#8217;t just bad for the animals it infects, it can also affect the very ecosystems on which the animals depend. CWD\u00a0disease is a contagious, neurological illness affecting deer, elk, and moose populations throughout North America, according to a report in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/2018\/10\/12\/117260\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a><\/strong>. While South Carolina wildlife populations have been spared, state Department of Natural Resources officials are considering a ban on substance thought to contribute to the disease. Andrew Moore of the Journal spoke to Furman biology professor John Quinn about how a decline in white-tailed deer populations could impact invasive plant species, deer predators and even the economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic wasting disease isn&#8217;t just bad for the animals it infects, it can also affect the very ecosystems on which the animals depend. CWD\u00a0disease is a contagious, neurological illness affecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-on-the-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}