{"id":8198,"date":"2024-11-26T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2024-11-26T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T01:00:17","slug":"canada-confirms-first-case-of-new-mpox-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/26\/canada-confirms-first-case-of-new-mpox-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Confirms First Case of New Mpox Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-11-23\/canada-confirms-first-case-of-new-mpox-variant-says-risk-is-low\">Bloomberg<\/a> Canada confirmed its first case of a dangerous new mpox variant but said the risk to the general population remains low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first case of clade I mpox was found in an individual in the province of Manitoba, the country\u2019s public health agency said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/SNDWM5TP3SHS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A public health investigation, which includes contact tracing, is ongoing, the health authority said. Mpox was declared an international health emergency by the World Health Organization Aug. 14 after a surge in cases of the new variant in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-11-16\/first-us-case-of-new-mpox-variant-confirmed-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0its first case of clade I mpox earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-11-23\/canada-confirms-first-case-of-new-mpox-variant-says-risk-is-low\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Canada confirmed its first case of a dangerous new mpox variant but said the risk to the general population remains low. The first case of clade I mpox was found in an individual in the province of Manitoba, the country\u2019s public health agency said in a&nbsp;statement. A public health investigation, which includes contact tracing, [&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-8198","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\/8198","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=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8199,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions\/8199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}