{"id":244614,"date":"2026-09-17T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mpox-outbreak-official-calls-for-reinforced-prevention-measures\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:00:20","slug":"angola-mpox-outbreak-official-calls-for-reinforced-prevention-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-mpox-outbreak-official-calls-for-reinforced-prevention-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Mpox Outbreak &#8211; Official Calls for Reinforced Prevention Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Cazombo \u2014 The director of the Provincial Health Department in Moxico Leste, Benilde Miguel, exhorted on Monday (14) the public to reinforce preventive measures against Mpox and measles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking to the press regarding the status of these diseases in Moxico Leste Province, Benilde Miguel emphasized that the number of measles and Mpox cases continues to concern the authorities, particularly in the municipalities of Luau, Cazombo, and Luacano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">She stated that the authorities have been strengthening&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609160735.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cazombo \u2014 The director of the Provincial Health Department in Moxico Leste, Benilde Miguel, exhorted on Monday (14) the public to reinforce preventive measures against Mpox and measles. Speaking to the press regarding the status of these diseases in Moxico Leste Province, Benilde Miguel emphasized that the number of measles and Mpox cases continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244615,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6137,7305,49242,257,5092,6582,6356,11070,254],"class_list":["post-244614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-calls","tag-measures","tag-mpox","tag-news","tag-official","tag-outbreak","tag-prevention","tag-reinforced","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/244614","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}