{"id":29491,"date":"2025-01-01T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/infrastructure-neglect-and-poverty-lead-to-parasites-in-the-mississippi-delta\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T16:59:09","slug":"infrastructure-neglect-and-poverty-lead-to-parasites-in-the-mississippi-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/infrastructure-neglect-and-poverty-lead-to-parasites-in-the-mississippi-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests parasitic infections in US south are far more widespread than previously acknowledged<\/p>\n<p>For years, Marecitta Dorsey\u2019s four children \u2013 ages seven to 14 \u2013 suffered regular bouts of nausea, vomiting and sore stomachs. Their unexplained symptoms were bad enough to keep them out of school a few days each month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy eldest would tell me, \u2018I feel like my tummy\u2019s burning,\u2019\u201d recalled Dorsey. \u201cEvery week I was taking at least one kid to the doctor because of something with their stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/01\/mississippi-delta-water-parasites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests parasitic infections in US south are far more widespread than previously acknowledged For years, Marecitta Dorsey\u2019s four children \u2013 ages seven to 14 \u2013 suffered regular bouts of nausea, vomiting and sore stomachs. Their unexplained symptoms were bad enough to keep them out of school a few days each month. \u201cMy eldest &#8230; <a title=\"Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/infrastructure-neglect-and-poverty-lead-to-parasites-in-the-mississippi-delta\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}