{"id":8075,"date":"2024-11-12T12:49:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2024-11-12T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:49:59","slug":"who-says-mpox-cases-in-congos-epicenter-where-the-new-variant-was-detected-may-be-plateauing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/12\/who-says-mpox-cases-in-congos-epicenter-where-the-new-variant-was-detected-may-be-plateauing\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO says mpox cases in Congo\u2019s epicenter where the new variant was detected may be \u2018plateauing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/africa-congo-epicenter-mpox-who-56cb9b5db37daab2ccaabe495ada0bbb\">AP<\/a> Cases of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-covid-who-pandemic-59548adbbd58df7e5d176fc244e02a58\">mpox in the region of Congo<\/a>&nbsp;where a new and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-congo-outbreak-who-fda17cea128f46e48110ad7adcd9e5de\">more infectious variant was first detected<\/a>&nbsp;appear to be \u201cplateauing,\u201d the World Health Organization said on Monday, even as the virus continues to increase in other areas of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A report by the U.N. health agency said the number of mpox infections \u201cshows a general rising trend,\u201d but that they may have plateaued in South Kivu, where the more infectious form of mpox was first identified to be spreading earlier this year among\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-outbreak-sex-workers-miners-kamituga-congo-5f6f3c7e9f0abd1917f8daf41678ea2b\">sex workers and miners<\/a>\u00a0in the gold mining town of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-new-strain-outbreak-kamituga-eastern-congo-f9affb7a7d73c8c30daf296c51c920c7\">Kamituga<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/africa-congo-epicenter-mpox-who-56cb9b5db37daab2ccaabe495ada0bbb\">Continue reading<\/a> <\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"sQHfVwUkPON fjzrZEQxUEjY Lboo KJ\"><!-- sQHfVwUkPON fjzrZEQxUEjY Lboo KJ --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Cases of&nbsp;mpox in the region of Congo&nbsp;where a new and&nbsp;more infectious variant was first detected&nbsp;appear to be \u201cplateauing,\u201d the World Health Organization said on Monday, even as the virus continues to increase in other areas of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda. A report by the U.N. health agency said the [&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-8075","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\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}