{"id":8312,"date":"2020-02-26T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"rhinos-in-kenya-face-a-new-threat-bacteria-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/26\/rhinos-in-kenya-face-a-new-threat-bacteria-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhinos In Kenya Face A New Threat: Bacteria \u2013 Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists found that the endangered animals in Ruma National Park, a protected area on shores of Lake Victoria, had developed alarming levels of antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mighty rhinos living in a national park in Kenya face a new threat: microscopic bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists behind a study in a recent issue of New York-based academic journal EcoHealth found that the endangered animals in Ruma National Park, a protected area on shores of Lake Victoria, had developed alarming levels of antibiotic resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They appear to have become unexpected casualties of the global overuse of the drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resistance to them is growing because people take the drugs for non-bacterial diseases, don&#8217;t finish drug courses, allowing bacteria to recover and adapt, and because many farmers overuse the medicines on livestock. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/life\/rhinos-in-kenya-face-a-new-threat-bacteria-study-33705\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists found that the endangered animals in Ruma National Park, a protected area on shores of Lake Victoria, had developed alarming levels of antibiotic resistance. The mighty rhinos living in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}