{"id":546,"date":"2022-09-29T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=546"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:36","slug":"monkeypox-spread-is-slowing-in-the-us-now-the-focus-is-on-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/29\/monkeypox-spread-is-slowing-in-the-us-now-the-focus-is-on-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeypox Spread Is Slowing in the US. Now, the Focus Is on Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-09-28\/with-monkeypox-outbreak-slowing-focus-shifts-to-prevention?cmpid=BBD092922_prognosis&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=220929&amp;utm_campaign=prognosis\">Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US monkeypox cases are declining nationally, driven by a growing vaccine supply and community-based outreach, marking a hopeful sign for an outbreak that\u2019s afflicted more than\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/response\/2022\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">25,000<\/a>\u00a0Americans. Since the outbreak peaked in August, daily case rates have been dropping, data show, with just 66 new\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/response\/2022\/mpx-trends.html\" target=\"_blank\">infections<\/a>\u00a0reported on Sept. 21. In cities where monkeypox cases exploded early on, such as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/data\/health-tools\/monkeypox.page#surveillance\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>, cases have declined sharply, and in San Francisco case rates have also\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sf.gov\/data\/mpx-case-counts\" target=\"_blank\">slowed down<\/a>, health officials said at a briefing Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; US monkeypox cases are declining nationally, driven by a growing vaccine supply and community-based outreach, marking a hopeful sign for an outbreak that\u2019s afflicted more than\u00a025,000\u00a0Americans. Since the outbreak peaked in August, daily case rates have been dropping, data show, with just 66 new\u00a0infections\u00a0reported on Sept. 21. In cities where monkeypox cases exploded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-monkeypox","category-north-america"],"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\/546","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}