{"id":10704,"date":"2025-10-29T19:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:35:49","slug":"what-is-mpox-and-why-are-cases-rising-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/29\/what-is-mpox-and-why-are-cases-rising-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mpox and why are cases rising in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp856rvv41eo\">BBC<\/a> UK health officials are encouraging gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men to make sure they are vaccinated against mpox, as a strain called &#8216;clade Ib&#8217; shows early signs of local spread in some European countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it is aware of small numbers of cases of this strain of mpox &#8211; formerly known as monkeypox &#8211; in Spain, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands, as well as the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpox is usually a mild infection but it can be severe and getting vaccinated is the best protection, the UKHSA says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charities also urged vaccination before travelling to Winter Pride events in Europe this autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The ways in which we are seeing mpox continue to spread globally is a reminder to come forward for the vaccine, if you are eligible,&#8221; said Dr Katy Sinka, head of sexually transmitted infections at UKHSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"A new UKHSA report on mpox, opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/68ff874c0f801e57b5bef92a\/mpox-technical-assessment-27-october-2025.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A new UKHSA report on mpox<\/a>&nbsp;says there is now a high risk of clade I being imported into the UK through travel. But it says onwards spread &#8220;is likely to be controlled to some degree&#8221; by the existing vaccination programme for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC UK health officials are encouraging gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men to make sure they are vaccinated against mpox, as a strain called &#8216;clade Ib&#8217; shows early signs of local spread in some European countries. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it is aware of small numbers of cases [&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-10704","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\/10704","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=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10705,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}