{"id":922596,"date":"2023-11-11T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T07:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=922596"},"modified":"2023-11-21T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T07:18:19","slug":"maryland-zoos-beloved-bull-elephant-samson-recovers-from-rare-strain-of-elephant-herpesvirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/lifestyle\/maryland-zoos-beloved-bull-elephant-samson-recovers-from-rare-strain-of-elephant-herpesvirus","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Zoo&#8217;s Beloved Bull Elephant, Samson, Recovers from Rare Strain of Elephant Herpesvirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Zoo reported that its 15-year-old African bull elephant, Samson, has recovered from the Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV6). This recovery is due to early detection and treatment. Samson had previously survived a different strain of the virus, EEHV3b, at five years old. The Smithsonian&#8217;s National Elephant Herpesvirus Laboratory detected the virus during routine blood tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Zoo reported that its 15-year-old African bull elephant, Samson, has recovered from the Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV6). This recovery is due to early detection and treatment. Samson had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}