{"id":194614,"date":"2024-08-15T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/cdc-declares-mpox-a-continental-emergency-can-we-prevent-a-pandemic"},"modified":"2024-08-15T23:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T04:24:05","slug":"cdc-declares-mpox-a-continental-emergency-can-we-prevent-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/cdc-declares-mpox-a-continental-emergency-can-we-prevent-a-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"CDC Declares Mpox a Continental Emergency. Can We Prevent a Pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cdc-declares-mpox-a-continental-emergency-can-we-prevent-a-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control has taken the unprecedented step of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/africacdc\/status\/1823343814708445671?s=46&t=RTfq3HuSahuy3IVSlAKz6g\">declaring<\/a> the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-does-the-world-health-organisation-do\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) is also meeting to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/who-to-decide-this-week-if-mpox-africa-outbreak-is-a-global-emergency\/\"> decide<\/a> whether to trigger its highest global alert level over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/pandemic\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">epidemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These moves come after a virulent strain of the disease spread rapidly to 16 countries and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/africa-poised-declare-continentwide-emergency-alarm-mpox-outbreak\">six<\/a> new countries were affected in 10 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also meeting to decide whether to trigger its highest global alert level over the epidemic. These moves come [\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-194614","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\/194614","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=194614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}