{"id":7787,"date":"2024-10-02T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:52:00","slug":"the-majority-of-mpox-cases-cant-be-tracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/02\/the-majority-of-mpox-cases-cant-be-tracked\/","title":{"rendered":"The majority of mpox cases can&#8217;t be tracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/the-majority-of-mpox-cases-can-t-be-tracked-108423\">Devex<\/a> Health responders are largely not able to track how the virus is moving from person to person as cases steadily increase across the African continent. As cases&nbsp;of mpox steadily increase across the African continent, some 68% of them don\u2019t have an epidemiological link \u2014 meaning they\u2019re popping up among people that health workers aren\u2019t monitoring and who aren\u2019t known to have been in contact with previously identified cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a major concern,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/organizations\/centres-for-disease-control-and-prevention-africa-cdc-120577\">Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>\u00a0Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya during a press briefing, noting that there are concerning gaps in the continental response in areas of surveillance, contact tracing, and data collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/the-majority-of-mpox-cases-can-t-be-tracked-108423\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devex Health responders are largely not able to track how the virus is moving from person to person as cases steadily increase across the African continent. As cases&nbsp;of mpox steadily increase across the African continent, some 68% of them don\u2019t have an epidemiological link \u2014 meaning they\u2019re popping up among people that health workers aren\u2019t [&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-7787","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\/7787","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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}