{"id":10519,"date":"2025-10-08T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:52:34","slug":"leptospirosis-ripping-through-california-sea-lions-in-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/08\/leptospirosis-ripping-through-california-sea-lions-in-record-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Leptospirosis ripping through California sea lions in record numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/climate\/article\/sea-lions-sick-21087130.php\">SF Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An \u201call-time record\u201d number of sick sea lions has washed up on California beaches since a deadly bacterial disease&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/california\/article\/sea-lion-disease-20807585.php\" class=\"\">broke out this summer,<\/a>&nbsp;according to the Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center&nbsp;\u2014 with the outbreak especially concentrated in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July 1, the center has responded to at least 375 cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial kidney infection, plus over 50 that occurred earlier in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the death rate \u2014 normally around 2 in 3 even with treatment\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 has been even worse this year than usual, according to Marine Mammal Center spokesman Giancarlo Rulli.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Chronicle An \u201call-time record\u201d number of sick sea lions has washed up on California beaches since a deadly bacterial disease&nbsp;broke out this summer,&nbsp;according to the Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center&nbsp;\u2014 with the outbreak especially concentrated in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Since July 1, the center has responded to at least 375 cases of leptospirosis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10520,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions\/10520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}