{"id":8281,"date":"2024-12-10T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2024-12-10T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:25:54","slug":"congos-mpox-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/10\/congos-mpox-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo\u2019s mpox crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/can-congo-contain-its-exploding-mpox-epidemic-and-curtail-its-international-spread\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the second time in 2 years, a long-overlooked virus poses a global threat. Can it be contained? In late September 2023, a 33-year-old man who co-owned a bar in Kamituga, a remote mining city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), developed lesions on his genitals and a fever. He first sought help from a doctor, who gave him an injection, and then from a traditional healer, who applied ointments and performed an enema. But the lesions kept spreading, eventually appearing on most of his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His relatives convinced the man to come to the family home in the city of Bukavu\u2014a trip that takes 6 hours on a good day and twice as long during the rainy season, when much of the road turns to mud. Health workers there swabbed his lesions, and a lab in Kinshasa, the capital, confirmed the man had something rarely seen in that part of DRC: mpox, a painful and occasionally fatal disease caused by a relative of the smallpox virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A January report from the Bukavu branch of the DRC\u2019s Ministry of Public Health, obtained by\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>, called this man the \u201cindex case\u201d\u2014the first known patient\u2014in the epidemic of mpox now sweeping the country. The report said he fell ill after visiting Kisangani, a city a few provinces away. It did not explain how he might have become infected, but the genital lesions suggested it was through sexual contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/can-congo-contain-its-exploding-mpox-epidemic-and-curtail-its-international-spread\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science For the second time in 2 years, a long-overlooked virus poses a global threat. Can it be contained? In late September 2023, a 33-year-old man who co-owned a bar in Kamituga, a remote mining city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), developed lesions on his genitals and a fever. He first sought [&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-8281","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\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}