{"id":8897,"date":"2025-03-05T13:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:06:35","slug":"new-mutant-mpox-strain-discovered-in-the-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/05\/new-mutant-mpox-strain-discovered-in-the-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"New mutant mpox strain discovered in the DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/new-mutant-mpox-strain-discovered-in-drc-congo\/\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mutation of an older variant that may feature enhanced transmissibility is giving scientists cause for concern. A new variant of mpox that may be better adapted to spread between people has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new strain is a mutation of Clade 1a mpox \u2013 an older variant that has been known to cause more severe disease than Clade 2, which caused a global outbreak in 2022, or Clade 1b,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/how-one-doctor-helped-uncover-origin-of-drcs-mpox-outbreak\/\">which has been spreading rapidly in Africa since 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Ngashi Ngongo, who heads the mpox incident management team at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said the new strain raises significant public health concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/new-mutant-mpox-strain-discovered-in-drc-congo\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph A mutation of an older variant that may feature enhanced transmissibility is giving scientists cause for concern. A new variant of mpox that may be better adapted to spread between people has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The new strain is a mutation of Clade 1a mpox \u2013 an older variant [&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-8897","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\/8897","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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}