{"id":5339,"date":"2023-11-28T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2023-11-28T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:18:47","slug":"is-the-new-mpox-outbreak-deadlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/28\/is-the-new-mpox-outbreak-deadlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the New Mpox &#8216;Outbreak&#8217; Deadlier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/faustfiles\/107541\">Medpage Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three factors could explain the higher case fatality rate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2023-DON493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outbreak<\/a>* of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) has been detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The World Health Organization (WHO) has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/m\/item\/multi-country-outbreak-of-mpox--external-situation-report-30---25-november-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the case fatality rate &#8212; the percent of detected cases that are fatal &#8212; is 4.6%, or one in 22. That represents 581 deaths among 12,569 suspected cases in the 2023 outbreak. This is high. By comparison, the mpox outbreak of 2022 that was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/publichealth\/99876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> a &#8220;public health emergency of international concern&#8221; by the WHO had a case fatality rate of 0.18%, or one in 500. In the DRC, the case fatality rate of the 2022 outbreak was similar to the global rate, at around 0.2%. (The official international emergency that started in July 2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/en\/news\/11-5-2023-who-declares-end-mpox-emergency-calls-sustained-efforts-long-term-management-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ended<\/a>\u00a0in May 2023. While technically the current cases are an &#8220;escalation&#8221; of a longstanding mpox outbreak in the DRC, for the sake of clarity, I&#8217;ll use the terminology of the 2022\/Clade II and 2023\/Clade I outbreaks here.)<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" E OomH gPgj Yohc TAp\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medpage Today Three factors could explain the higher case fatality rate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. An\u00a0outbreak* of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) has been detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The World Health Organization (WHO) has\u00a0reported\u00a0that the case fatality rate &#8212; the percent of detected cases that are fatal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5340,"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-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monkeypox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-15.18.06.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","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=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}