{"id":9444,"date":"2025-05-14T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:37:29","slug":"sierra-leone-reports-more-than-2000-mpox-cases-11-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/14\/sierra-leone-reports-more-than-2000-mpox-cases-11-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Reports More Than 2,000 Mpox Cases, 11 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tv360nigeria.com\/sierra-leone-reports-more-than-2000-mpox-cases-11-deaths\/\">TV 360 Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sierra Leone has recorded a total of 2,045 confirmed cases of mpox since the start of the year, with 11 reported deaths, according to a new report released by the country\u2019s Ministry of Health. The latest figures, unveiled late Monday, include 165 new cases reported just on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beginning of May, health officials had confirmed nine deaths and 1,140 cases, highlighting a sharp and worrying spike in infections within just two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the growing health crisis, Health Minister Dr. Austin Demby met with the Indian High Commissioner on Tuesday to request 100,000 doses of mpox vaccines to help contain the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a state problem on our hands,\u201d Demby told lawmakers during a parliamentary session. Reflecting on the country\u2019s past resilience, he added, \u201cWe survived Ebola, we managed Covid, and we will overcome mpox too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tv360nigeria.com\/sierra-leone-reports-more-than-2000-mpox-cases-11-deaths\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV 360 Nigeria Sierra Leone has recorded a total of 2,045 confirmed cases of mpox since the start of the year, with 11 reported deaths, according to a new report released by the country\u2019s Ministry of Health. The latest figures, unveiled late Monday, include 165 new cases reported just on Sunday. At the beginning of [&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-9444","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\/9444","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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}