{"595863":{"#nid":"595863","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Horrific Flesh-Eating Parasite Called \u0022The Next Plague\u0022 Could Spread in U.S., Spurring Vaccine Effort","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0026#39;s not a hyped-up headline; health officials do indeed fear that\u0026nbsp;leishmania, one of the world\u0026#39;s deadliest parasites\u0026nbsp;devastating\u0026nbsp;underdeveloped countries, could show up in\u0026nbsp;the southern U.S., thanks\u0026nbsp;to climate change and\u0026nbsp;rising temperatures. That\u0026#39;s prompted an effort to quickly develop a vaccine. A\u0026nbsp;research team that includes \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/finn\/m.g.\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E (which he also chairs) is getting close with its work on genetically engineered\u0026nbsp;mice, according to a new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acscentsci.7b00311\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E. That research is attracting media interest; here\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/futurism.com\/a-new-vaccine-could-eradicate-flesh-eating-parasites\/\u0022\u003EFuturism\u0026#39;s\u003C\/a\u003E take on Finn\u0026#39;s study and the vaccine development efforts now underway.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-09-13 15:36:49","changed_gmt":"2017-09-13 15:56:04","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Elizabeth Kornegay","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/horrific-flesh-eating-parasite-called-next-plague-could-spread-us-spurring-663868","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595865":{"id":"595865","type":"image","title":"M.G. Finn","body":null,"created":"1505317144","gmt_created":"2017-09-13 15:39:04","changed":"1505317144","gmt_changed":"2017-09-13 15:39:04","alt":"","file":{"fid":"227089","name":"M.G. Finn.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/M.G.%20Finn.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/M.G.%20Finn.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66832,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/M.G.%20Finn.jpg?itok=lLS8uyyT"}}},"media_ids":["595865"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"96831","name":"M.G. Finn"},{"id":"175451","name":"Leishmania"},{"id":"763","name":"vaccine"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}