{"id":194618,"date":"2024-08-16T01:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mpox-outbreak-in-africa-was-neglected-it-could-now-turn-into-the-next-global-pandemic"},"modified":"2024-08-16T01:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:24:41","slug":"mpox-outbreak-in-africa-was-neglected-it-could-now-turn-into-the-next-global-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mpox-outbreak-in-africa-was-neglected-it-could-now-turn-into-the-next-global-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected \u2014 it could now turn into the next global pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mpox-outbreak-in-africa-was-neglected-it-could-now-turn-into-the-next-global-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/situations\/Ebola-2019-drc-\">second-largest Ebola outbreak<\/a> ever took place in the wider area and, despite the availability of vaccines and treatments, posed considerable challenges.<\/p>\n<p><b>What needs to happen<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/langlo\/article\/PIIS2214-109X(24)00187-6\/fulltext\">article<\/a> we co-authored in The Lancet Global Health outlines what needs to be done to contain this outbreak and prevent it from turning into an epidemic, possibly even a pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever took place in the wider area and, despite the availability of vaccines and treatments, posed considerable challenges. What needs to happen A recent article we co-authored in The Lancet Global Health outlines what needs to be done to contain this outbreak and prevent it from turning into [\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-194618","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\/194618","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=194618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}