{"id":139604,"date":"2022-05-19T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/1st-monkeypox-case-in-us-this-year-reported-in-massachusetts"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:03:38","slug":"1st-monkeypox-case-in-us-this-year-reported-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/1st-monkeypox-case-in-us-this-year-reported-in-massachusetts","title":{"rendered":"1st monkeypox case in US this year reported in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1st-monkeypox-case-in-us-this-year-reported-in-massachusetts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts resident has tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/cases-monkeypox-reported-uk\/story?id=84749225\" target=\"_blank\">monkeypox<\/a>, health officials confirmed Wednesday, making it the first case of the rare virus detected in the United States this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the patient is an adult male who recently traveled to Canada. The department completed initial testing Tuesday and was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe case poses no risk to the public, and the individual is hospitalized and in good condition,\u201d MDPH stated in a press release. \u201cDPH is working closely with the CDC, relevant local boards of health, and the patient\u2019s health care providers to identify individuals who may have been in contact with the patient while he was infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts resident has tested positive for monkeypox, health officials confirmed Wednesday, making it the first case of the rare virus detected in the United States this year. According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the patient is an adult male who recently traveled to Canada. The department completed initial testing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}