{"id":15121309,"date":"2026-05-26T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/rattlesnakes-among-most-vulnerable-to-fungal-disease-and-parasitic-lung-infection\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:00:44","slug":"rattlesnakes-among-most-vulnerable-to-fungal-disease-and-parasitic-lung-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/rattlesnakes-among-most-vulnerable-to-fungal-disease-and-parasitic-lung-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnakes among most vulnerable to fungal disease and parasitic lung infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes are threatened with extinction in many places around the globe. Disease, often caused by parasites or fungi, is thought to be one of the key factors alongside habitat destruction. Prominent among fungal diseases is ophidiomycosis\u2014also known as snake fungal disease\u2014which is caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophidiicola (Oo). In the 20 years since its discovery, it has been found in many snake species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-rattlesnakes-vulnerable-fungal-disease-parasitic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Science \u2013 Space \u2013 phys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snakes are threatened with extinction in many places around the globe. Disease, often caused by parasites or fungi, is thought to be one of the key factors alongside habitat destruction. Prominent among fungal diseases is ophidiomycosis\u2014also known as snake fungal\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15121311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15121309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15121309-rattlesnakes-among-mos.jpg",90,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/science\/space\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space<\/a>","tag_info":"Space","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15121309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121310,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121309\/revisions\/15121310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15121311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15121309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15121309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15121309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}