{"id":186264,"date":"2024-12-10T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-who-updates-mpox-situation-angola-reports-first-case\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:24:43","slug":"africa-who-updates-mpox-situation-angola-reports-first-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-who-updates-mpox-situation-angola-reports-first-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: WHO Updates Mpox Situation &#8211; Angola Reports First Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Different parts of Africa are experiencing mpox outbreaks with multiple virus variants (clades), according to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/resource\/main\/main\/id\/00131834.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO Situation Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Western, Northern, and Southern African countries have clade II MPXV<br \/>Central and Eastern African countries have clade I MPXV<br \/>Cameroon is unique, with both clades present in different regions<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">As of December 1, 2024, Africa has:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">13,171 confirmed mpox cases<br \/>57 total deaths (a death rate of 0.4%)<br \/>20 countries reporting cases<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><strong>Most Affected Countries<\/strong><br \/>Democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412100215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different parts of Africa are experiencing mpox outbreaks with multiple virus variants (clades), according to the latest WHO Situation Report: Western, Northern, and Southern African countries have clade II MPXVCentral and Eastern African countries have clade I MPXVCameroon is unique, with both clades present in different regions As of December 1, 2024, Africa has: 13,171 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,3941,377,6683,49242,257,8327,6325,254,12445],"class_list":["post-186264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-cameroon-news","tag-case","tag-mpox","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-situation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-updates"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186264","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=186264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}