{"id":9955,"date":"2025-07-23T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:13:10","slug":"gambia-declares-mpox-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/gambia-declares-mpox-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia declares mpox outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/gambia-declares-mpox-outbreak-211781\">Daily News<\/a> The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a>\u00a0reported an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/outbreak\">outbreak<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/mpox\">mpox<\/a>\u00a0on July 22 with detection of a single case, as several nearby countries have recorded recent increases in infections. Mpox remains an international health emergency, the World Health Organisation&#8217;s (WHO) director said last month, amid a rise in west Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A case of mpox has been detected in the country through the routine surveillance system&#8221;, The Gambia&#8217;s Health Ministry said in a statement, adding that the disease was detected last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The detection of a single case in a country where mpox is not presently in circulation constitutes an outbreak, requiring immediate response,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry said it was actively looking for cases, carrying out contact tracing and community engagement to prevent the disease&#8217;s spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mpox is caused by a virus from the same family as smallpox. It can be transmitted to humans by infected animals but can also be passed between people through close physical contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease, which was first detected in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, causes fever, muscular aches and large boil-like skin lesions, and can be deadly.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily News The\u00a0Gambia\u00a0reported an\u00a0outbreak\u00a0of\u00a0mpox\u00a0on July 22 with detection of a single case, as several nearby countries have recorded recent increases in infections. Mpox remains an international health emergency, the World Health Organisation&#8217;s (WHO) director said last month, amid a rise in west Africa. &#8220;A case of mpox has been detected in the country through the [&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-9955","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\/9955","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=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}