{"id":25136,"date":"2017-10-22T02:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T02:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=25136"},"modified":"2017-10-22T02:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T02:15:05","slug":"biology-what-is-the-most-contagious-disease-among-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-what-is-the-most-contagious-disease-among-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: what is the most contagious disease among humans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring biology, diseases are mentioned. The tutor names perhaps the most contagious one.<\/h1>\n<p>Measles is potentially the most contagious disease among humans. In particular, all children in a natural, unvaccinated population will catch it.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I heard about measles, but didn&#8217;t catch it. I believe I was immunized against it at some point. I never hear about it now, likely because children are typically vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Measles can be fatal, by complication to pneumonia or swelling of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Mader, Sylvia S. <i>Inquiry into Life<\/i>, 11th ed. Toronto: McGraw Hill, 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2015\/02\/03\/383305152\/beyond-rash-and-fever-how-measles-can-kill\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/measles\/symptoms-measles.html\">www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/measles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, diseases are mentioned. The tutor names perhaps the most contagious one. Measles is potentially the most contagious disease among humans. In particular, all children in a natural, unvaccinated population will catch it.1 When I was a kid, I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-what-is-the-most-contagious-disease-among-humans\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: what is the most contagious disease among humans?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1370],"tags":[2559,2558,2560],"class_list":["post-25136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-health","tag-measles","tag-most-contagious-disease","tag-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25136"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25169,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25136\/revisions\/25169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}