{"id":12199,"date":"2026-05-27T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:53:13","slug":"wisconsin-health-officials-urge-mpox-precautions-following-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/05\/27\/wisconsin-health-officials-urge-mpox-precautions-following-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Health Officials Urge Mpox Precautions Following New Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is encouraging residents to take preventive measures against mpox after new cases were confirmed in southeastern and northern parts of the state. Mpox is a viral illness spread through close personal contact, including prolonged face-to-face interaction, skin-to-skin contact, and exposure to contaminated materials. Symptoms commonly include a rash with fluid-filled lesions, fever, swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches, and chills. State health officials are advising anyone who may have been exposed to contact a healthcare provider to discuss vaccination. Wisconsin has reported five confirmed cases this year, while more than 500 cases have been confirmed nationwide. Read the full story at News 8<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is encouraging residents to take preventive measures against mpox after new cases were confirmed in southeastern and northern parts of the state. Mpox is a viral illness spread through close personal contact, including prolonged face-to-face interaction, skin-to-skin contact, and exposure to contaminated materials. Symptoms commonly include a rash with […]<\/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-12199","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\/12199","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=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12200,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions\/12200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}