{"id":10422,"date":"2025-09-30T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T23:20:32","slug":"washington-state-doh-detects-clade-i-mpox-in-pierce-county-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/30\/washington-state-doh-detects-clade-i-mpox-in-pierce-county-wastewater\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State: DOH detects clade I mpox in Pierce County wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tpchd.org\/news\/doh-detects-clade-i-mpox-in-pierce-county-wastewater\/\">Pierce County Health Department<\/a> On Sept. 24, 2025, Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the University of Washington detected clade I mpox virus (also called monkeypox virus) in Pierce County wastewater. After consultation with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is working with DOH to increase wastewater testing to monitor the situation. At this time, no patients with clade I mpox have been reported in Pierce County. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two types of virus cause mpox: clade I and clade II. The vast majority of mpox cases in the United States have been caused by clade II mpox.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mpox\/situation-summary\/index.html\">According to CDC<\/a>, six cases of clade I mpox have been reported in the United States in people who had recently traveled to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io\/mpx_global\/#sec-clade-export\">countries with ongoing outbreaks<\/a>. So far, there has not been sustained transmission of clade I mpox reported in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce County Health Department On Sept. 24, 2025, Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the University of Washington detected clade I mpox virus (also called monkeypox virus) in Pierce County wastewater. After consultation with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is working with DOH to increase wastewater testing to [&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-10422","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\/10422","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=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}