{"id":69938,"date":"2024-08-15T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-is-mpox-and-how-is-it-spread-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:46:55","slug":"what-is-mpox-and-how-is-it-spread-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-is-mpox-and-how-is-it-spread-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What is mpox and how is it spread? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international <!--more--> concern.<\/p>\n<p>The highly contagious disease &#8211; formerly known as monkeypox &#8211; has killed at least 450 people during an initial outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>It has now spread across parts of central and east Africa, and scientists are concerned about how fast a new variant of the disease is spreading and its high fatality rate.<\/p>\n<p>WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond &#8220;is very worrying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Mpox #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}