{"id":11066,"date":"2025-12-17T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:47:22","slug":"el-paso-reports-first-mpox-case-of-2025-health-officials-launch-contact-tracing-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/17\/el-paso-reports-first-mpox-case-of-2025-health-officials-launch-contact-tracing-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso reports first Mpox case of 2025, health officials launch contact tracing efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-reports-first-mpox-case-of-2025-health-officials-launch-contact-tracing-efforts\">Kfox14<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of El Paso Public Health Department is reporting the first Mpox case of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A male in his 50\u2019s is currently recovering at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health officials have initiated contact tracing and the City\u2019s DPH epidemiology team is actively working to identify close contacts and offer the vaccine to those individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We urge everyone at-risk to remain vigilant in practicing preventive measures to protect themselves and their families,\u201d said Dr. Hector Ocaranza, City-County Health Authority. \u201cThis includes safeguarding our most vulnerable community members from not only Mpox, but also other diseases like COVID-19 and the flu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"R KfTB OTXDi Tw J alK \">R KfTB OTXDi Tw J alK <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kfox14 The City of El Paso Public Health Department is reporting the first Mpox case of 2025. A male in his 50\u2019s is currently recovering at home. Public Health officials have initiated contact tracing and the City\u2019s DPH epidemiology team is actively working to identify close contacts and offer the vaccine to those individuals. We [&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-11066","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\/11066","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=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11067,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions\/11067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}