{"id":2838,"date":"2007-10-04T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/the_gowanus_canal_has_the_clap.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:08:15","slug":"ew_like_ew_no_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/ew_like_ew_no_r.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gowanus Canal Has The Clap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering how a body of water can catch a venereal disease.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/10042007\/news\/regionalnews\/wading_in_gowanus__take_rubber.htm\">So is everyone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> Scientists have discovered that the long-contaminated Gowanus Canal is not just toxic, it&#8217;s also infected with gonorrhea.<\/p>\n<p>The cringe-inducing find was revealed by New York City College of Technology biologist Dr. Niloufar Haque in this month&#8217;s Scienceline, an NYU publication.<\/p>\n<p>While developers have envisioned the canal someday turning Brooklyn into a bit of Venice with idyllic gondola rides, Haque&#8217;s team found their own emergence of hanky-panky in the Gowanus&#8217; waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One group of students found gonorrhea in a water drop,&#8221; the professor told Scienceline.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time the toxic waterway &#8212; dubbed the Lavender Lake because of its oily, purplish hue &#8212; has come up positive with disease. In the mid-1970s, the channel was found to contain typhus, typhoid and cholera.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/gowanus\/gowanuscanal\/index.htm\">Gowanus Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering how a body of water can catch a venereal disease. So is everyone: Scientists have discovered that the long-contaminated Gowanus Canal is not just toxic, it&#8217;s also infected with gonorrhea. The cringe-inducing find was revealed by New York City College of Technology biologist Dr. Niloufar Haque in this month&#8217;s Scienceline, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,41,27,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-dude_thats_so_weird","category-just_horrible","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}