{"id":140098,"date":"2022-06-03T02:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/health-agency-confirms-community-spread-of-monkeypox-in-england"},"modified":"2022-06-03T02:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:03:06","slug":"health-agency-confirms-community-spread-of-monkeypox-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/health-agency-confirms-community-spread-of-monkeypox-in-england","title":{"rendered":"Health agency confirms community spread of monkeypox in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/health-agency-confirms-community-spread-of-monkeypox-in-england2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) \u2014 Monkeypox appears to be spreading from person to person in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The usually mild viral disease, which is endemic in west and central Africa, is understood to spread through close contact. Until early May, cases rarely cropped up outside Africa and were typically linked to travel to there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current outbreak is the first time that the virus has been passed from person to person in England where travel links to an endemic country have not been identified,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) \u2014 Monkeypox appears to be spreading from person to person in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Wednesday. The usually mild viral disease, which is endemic in west and central Africa, is understood to spread through close contact. Until early May, cases rarely cropped up outside Africa and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140098","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}