{"id":197928,"date":"2025-05-12T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-cdc-say-sierra-leones-mpox-surge-raises-alarm-across-the-continent\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T06:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:47:43","slug":"africa-cdc-say-sierra-leones-mpox-surge-raises-alarm-across-the-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-cdc-say-sierra-leones-mpox-surge-raises-alarm-across-the-continent\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC Say Sierra Leone&#8217;s Mpox Surge Raises Alarm Across the Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>The centre warned of a potential regional health threat if swift containment measures are not implemented<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Sierra Leone&#8217;s recent surge in Mpox cases has triggered concern across the continent, the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/africacdc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a><\/strong> (Africa CDC) has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The centre warned of a potential regional health threat if swift containment measures are not implemented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Africa CDC said the rise in infections is contributing to a broader resurgence of the virus in parts of West and Central&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505110044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centre warned of a potential regional health threat if swift containment measures are not implemented Sierra Leone&#8217;s recent surge in Mpox cases has triggered concern across the continent, the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said. The centre warned of a potential regional health threat if swift containment measures are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,9582,14113,13298,7271,49242,257,5234,6571,1135,254,10716],"class_list":["post-197928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-cdc","tag-continent","tag-leones","tag-mpox","tag-news","tag-raises","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197928","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=197928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}