{"id":7727,"date":"2012-02-08T01:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/sharks-kill-12-people-in-2011-a-global-20-year-high-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T01:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:46:38","slug":"sharks-kill-12-people-in-2011-a-global-20-year-high-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sharks-kill-12-people-in-2011-a-global-20-year-high-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks kill 12 people in 2011, a global 20-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* 75 unprovoked shark attacks occurred worldwide in 2011<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Humans are not sharks&#8217; favorite meal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Twelve fatalities, all outside the United States<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Surfers account for 60 percent of attacks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Humans kill many more sharks than sharks kill humans<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MIAMI, Feb 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Sharks killed a dozen people<br \/>\nworldwide last year, a two-decade high as tourists ventured into<br \/>\nwaters in remote areas far from medical care, Florida<br \/>\nresearchers said in a report released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>None of the deadly attacks occurred in the United States,<br \/>\nwhich saw a five-year downturn in the number of reported<br \/>\nunprovoked shark attacks, said ichthyologist George Burgess,<br \/>\ndirector of the International Shark Attack File housed at the<br \/>\nFlorida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a number of fatalities in essentially out-of the way<br \/>\nplaces, where there&#8217;s not the same quantity and quality of<br \/>\nmedical attention readily available,&#8221; Burgess said. &#8220;They also<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have histories of shark attacks in these regions, so there<br \/>\nare not contingency plans in effect like there are in places<br \/>\nsuch as Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seventy-five attacks occurred worldwide, close to the decade<br \/>\naverage, but the number of fatalities doubled compared with<br \/>\n2010, he said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 75 unprovoked shark attacks occurred worldwide in 2011 * Humans are not sharks&#8217; favorite meal * Twelve fatalities, all outside the United States * Surfers account for 60 percent of attacks * Humans kill many more sharks than sharks kill humans MIAMI, Feb 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Sharks killed a dozen people worldwide last year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}