{"id":142138,"date":"2022-07-13T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/global-monkeypox-cases-top-6000-who-says"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T19:22:57","slug":"global-monkeypox-cases-top-6000-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/global-monkeypox-cases-top-6000-who-says","title":{"rendered":"Global monkeypox cases top 6,000, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/global-monkeypox-cases-top-6000-who-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said today that infections have been detected in 58 countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/monkeypox\">Our World in Data<\/a> lists 7,075 confirmed cases worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><b>Testing is a challenge<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesting remains a challenge, and it\u2019s highly probable that there are a significant number of cases not being picked up,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-covid-19-media-briefing---6-july2022\">he warned during a speech<\/a>. \u201cI plan to reconvene the Emergency Committee so they are updated on the current epidemiology and evolution of the outbreak, and implementation of counter measures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said today that infections have been detected in 58 countries. Our World in Data lists 7,075 confirmed cases worldwide. Testing is a challenge \u201cTesting remains a challenge, and it\u2019s highly probable that there are a significant number of cases not being picked up,\u201d he warned during a speech. \u201cI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142138","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=142138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}