{"id":11670,"date":"2026-03-18T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11670"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:42:31","slug":"more-serious-mpox-strain-detected-in-nyc-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/18\/more-serious-mpox-strain-detected-in-nyc-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"More serious mpox strain detected in NYC for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mpox-clade-i-detected-in-nyc-for-first-time\/\">CBS News<\/a> The first case of mpox clade I has been detected in New York City, health officials said Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the two types of mpox, clade I is known to cause more severe disease and death. It&#8217;s the 12th&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mpox-clade-i-strain-more-severe-first-locally-acquired\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"clade I mpox diagnosis in the U.S., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clade I mpox diagnosis in the U.S.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city&#8217;s Health Department said the person who tested positive recently traveled to Europe and is isolating until symptoms subside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is no known local transmission of mpox clade I in New York City and the risk remains low for New Yorkers,&#8221; Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin said. &#8220;The NYC Health Department recommends that New Yorkers who are at risk for mpox receive and complete the two-dose vaccine series that works to prevent mpox.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mpox-clade-i-detected-in-nyc-for-first-time\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News The first case of mpox clade I has been detected in New York City, health officials said Friday.&nbsp; Of the two types of mpox, clade I is known to cause more severe disease and death. It&#8217;s the 12th&nbsp;clade I mpox diagnosis in the U.S.&nbsp; The city&#8217;s Health Department said the person who tested [&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-11670","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\/11670","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=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11671,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}