{"id":10953,"date":"2025-12-03T15:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:14:01","slug":"worcester-confirms-two-cases-of-mpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/worcester-confirms-two-cases-of-mpox\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester confirms two cases of mpox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/worcester\/2025\/12\/worcester-confirms-two-cases-of-mpox.html\">Mass.live<\/a> Two cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, were confirmed in Worcester, a spokesperson for the city confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individuals involved were admitted to UMass Memorial facilities, according to a statement from UMass Memorial Health. \u201cClinical leadership from UMass Memorial Infection Prevention and Control and Employee Health Services is closely monitoring the situation in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH),\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"N6KMD4F5LFBU5GECPER7NXFMD4\">Dr. Michael P. Hirsh, the city\u2019s medical director, told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegram.com\/story\/news\/healthcare\/2025\/12\/02\/worcester-mpox-cases\/87565845007\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Telegram &amp; Gazette, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Telegram &amp; Gazette<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday the two individuals were homeless women who are sex workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city spokesperson did not identify the two individuals. A UMass Memorial Health spokesperson would not provide any additional information beyond the health care provider\u2019s statement when asked further questions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass.live Two cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, were confirmed in Worcester, a spokesperson for the city confirmed Tuesday. The individuals involved were admitted to UMass Memorial facilities, according to a statement from UMass Memorial Health. \u201cClinical leadership from UMass Memorial Infection Prevention and Control and Employee Health Services is closely monitoring the situation [&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-10953","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\/10953","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=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10954,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions\/10954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}