{"id":9122,"date":"2025-04-02T10:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:24:00","slug":"research-highlights-rising-risk-of-human-to-human-mpox-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/02\/research-highlights-rising-risk-of-human-to-human-mpox-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Research highlights rising risk of human-to-human mpox transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20250401\/Research-highlights-rising-risk-of-human-to-human-mpox-transmission.aspx\">Medical News<\/a> Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the University of Surrey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter published in&nbsp;<em>Nature Medicine<\/em>, researchers highlight how mpox \u2013 traditionally spread from animals to humans \u2013 is now showing clear signs of sustained human-to-human transmission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. The virus can cause a painful rash, fever, and swollen glands and, in some cases, lead to more serious illness. Mpox usually spreads through close contact with an infected person or animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the University of Surrey.   In a letter published in Nature Medicine, researchers highlight how mpox \u2013 traditionally spread from animals to humans \u2013 is now showing clear signs of sustained human-to-human transmission.   Mpox is a viral infection caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. The virus can cause a painful rash, fever, and swollen glands and, in some cases, lead to more serious illness. Mpox usually spreads through close contact with an infected person or animal.\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical News Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the University of Surrey.&nbsp; In a letter published in&nbsp;Nature Medicine, researchers highlight how mpox \u2013 traditionally spread from animals to humans \u2013 is now showing clear signs of sustained human-to-human transmission.&nbsp; Mpox is a [&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-9122","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\/9122","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=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9123,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}