{"id":8837,"date":"2025-02-26T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:07:31","slug":"why-the-good-news-about-the-mpox-outbreak-of-2025-isnt-really-good-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/26\/why-the-good-news-about-the-mpox-outbreak-of-2025-isnt-really-good-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the good news about the mpox outbreak of 2025 isn&#8217;t really good after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2025\/02\/25\/g-s1-49693\/mpox-vaccines-democratic-republic-congo-usaid\">NPR<\/a> Dr. Jean Kaseya has a warning for the world: &#8220;We are playing with fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africacdc.org\/people\/dr-jean-kaseya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Kaseya<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;is director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He&#8217;s talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For much of the world, mpox \u2014 formerly known as monkeypox \u2014 seems like a virus from a few years ago. There was a global outbreak in 2022 and 2023 but the virus is no longer circulating as widely in Europe and the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, large swathes of Africa are in the midst of a major outbreak. The epicenter is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 2,000 suspected cases reported each week for months, according to Africa CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2025\/02\/25\/g-s1-49693\/mpox-vaccines-democratic-republic-congo-usaid\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Kol XPFL Jbxh wJIlkSTUdSJv\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Dr. Jean Kaseya has a warning for the world: &#8220;We are playing with fire.&#8221; Kaseya&nbsp;is director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He&#8217;s talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal. For much of the world, mpox \u2014 formerly known as monkeypox \u2014 seems like [&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-8837","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\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}