{"id":10048,"date":"2025-08-13T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:10:49","slug":"inside-the-red-zone-sierra-leones-terrifying-mpox-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/inside-the-red-zone-sierra-leones-terrifying-mpox-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Red Zone: Sierra Leone\u2019s terrifying mpox outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/inside-sierra-leones-terrifying-mpox-outbreak\/\">Telegraph<\/a> More than 5,000 have tested positive \u2013 including children \u2013 and at least 47 have died in Africa\u2019s worst outbreak of the disease. Inside a quarantine zone on the edge of a military hospital, a 32-year-old man with lesions all over his body is losing his battle with disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ibrahim Turay, a construction worker from the capital, Freetown, has a severe case of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox that exploded in Sierra Leone earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than a month he has been unable to overcome the infection because his immune system is compromised. A secondary infection has resisted every antibiotic available, leaving him in a horribly precarious position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy situation, it is getting worse \u2013 some areas are getting better, but there are more boils popping up all the time,\u201d he said, referring to the lumps and blisters that continue to erupt all over him.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"tcVO mUCfow SUxcUv\"><!-- tcVO mUCfow SUxcUv --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph More than 5,000 have tested positive \u2013 including children \u2013 and at least 47 have died in Africa\u2019s worst outbreak of the disease. Inside a quarantine zone on the edge of a military hospital, a 32-year-old man with lesions all over his body is losing his battle with disease. Ibrahim Turay, a construction worker [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeypox"],"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\/10048","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=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}