{"id":184836,"date":"2024-11-18T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T08:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-confirms-new-mpox-strain\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T08:51:10","slug":"liberia-govt-confirms-new-mpox-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-confirms-new-mpox-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Govt Confirms New Mpox Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The government, through the National Public Health Institute (NPHIL), has confirmed a new Mpox Strain, Clade 2b, marking the presence of two strains, Clade 2a and Clade 2b, but there is no death so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Before declaring Mpox a global concern and public health emergency, Liberia had five active cases. Weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Center for Disease Control (CDC) made the announcement, the country reported one case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The National Public Health Institute (NPHIL) says&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411150224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government, through the National Public Health Institute (NPHIL), has confirmed a new Mpox Strain, Clade 2b, marking the presence of two strains, Clade 2a and Clade 2b, but there is no death so far. Before declaring Mpox a global concern and public health emergency, Liberia had five active cases. Weeks after the World Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660541:af5a3fdc0f2490226ea031cad311ba69:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6824,4357,4712,1107,49242,257,254,23061],"class_list":["post-184836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confirms","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mpox","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strain"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660541:af5a3fdc0f2490226ea031cad311ba69:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}