{"id":8488,"date":"2025-01-14T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T00:21:20","slug":"sierra-leone-declares-public-health-emergency-over-mpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/14\/sierra-leone-declares-public-health-emergency-over-mpox\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone declares public health emergency over mpox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1885155\/sierra-leone-declares-public-health-emergency-over-mpox\">Dawn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sierra Leone declared a public health emergency on Monday to combat mpox, announcing it was stepping up surveillance at its borders after confirming two cases of the deadly viral disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe confirmation of two cases of mpox in the country has prompted immediate action as mandated by the public health act,\u201d Health Minister Austin Demby told reporters in Freetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the government of Sierra Leone, I am declaring a public health emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week Sierra Leone reported its first confirmed case of mpox since the world\u2019s highest alert level for the disease was raised last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1885155\/sierra-leone-declares-public-health-emergency-over-mpox\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"sbqLXDO jgJfw BJNC\">sbqLXDO jgJfw BJNC<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Sierra Leone declared a public health emergency on Monday to combat mpox, announcing it was stepping up surveillance at its borders after confirming two cases of the deadly viral disease. \u201cThe confirmation of two cases of mpox in the country has prompted immediate action as mandated by the public health act,\u201d Health Minister Austin [&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-8488","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\/8488","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=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}