{"id":10725,"date":"2025-11-05T14:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10725"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:52:19","slug":"us-public-health-officials-vigilant-as-newer-mpox-variant-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/05\/us-public-health-officials-vigilant-as-newer-mpox-variant-detected\/","title":{"rendered":"US public health officials vigilant as newer mpox variant detected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/01\/mpx-variant-us-public-health\">Guardian<\/a> Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communities. A newer variant of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, is now spreading through some communities in the US and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The risk to the general public is low, but community transmission in new places signals greater challenges for public health to detect cases and stop the spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>&nbsp;announced three cases of the newer variant, known as clade Ib. All three of the patients \u2013 two in Los Angeles and one in Long Beach \u2013 were hospitalized and are now recovering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of the patients had apparent links to each other and none had traveled internationally recently, indicating the virus is likely spreading undetected in some communities. There have been six cases of the new mpox variant found among travelers in the US, but this is the first sign of community spread.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communities. A newer variant of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, is now spreading through some communities in the US and Europe. The risk to the general public is low, but community transmission in new places [&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-10725","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\/10725","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=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}