{"id":11175,"date":"2026-01-07T19:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:48:05","slug":"traveler-brings-home-a-newly-evolved-hybrid-mpox-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/07\/traveler-brings-home-a-newly-evolved-hybrid-mpox-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveler brings home a newly-evolved &#8216;hybrid&#8217; mpox virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/traveler-brings-home-a-newly-evolved-hybrid-mpox-virus\/\">Earth.com<\/a> A new form of the mpox virus has surfaced in England, detected in a traveler returning from Asia and carrying a hybrid strain that blends genetic material from two different mpox lineages. The finding arrives amid a busy year for the virus, with global health agencies reporting roughly 48,000 confirmed mpox cases worldwide. Since 2022, mpox \u2013 a viral cousin of smallpox \u2013 has reshaped sexual health clinics across multiple continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What has scientists paying close attention now is not just the hybrid discovery itself, but what is happening alongside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A related strain, known as clade Ib, is appearing in people with no recent travel history, signaling that local transmission may already be underway in several countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, these developments suggest that mpox is still evolving \u2013 and that its next phase may be unfolding quietly, case by case.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"CH C WobvxGYm aTILC jl\">CH C WobvxGYm aTILC jl<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth.com A new form of the mpox virus has surfaced in England, detected in a traveler returning from Asia and carrying a hybrid strain that blends genetic material from two different mpox lineages. The finding arrives amid a busy year for the virus, with global health agencies reporting roughly 48,000 confirmed mpox cases worldwide. Since [&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-11175","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\/11175","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=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}