{"id":257259,"date":"2024-08-27T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/will-mpox-become-a-global-pandemic-like-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:45","slug":"will-mpox-become-a-global-pandemic-like-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/27\/will-mpox-become-a-global-pandemic-like-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Will mpox become a global pandemic like covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"An mpox awareness banner at Chennai International Airport in India on 21 August\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/27142912\/SEI_218775337.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2445393\" data-caption=\"An mpox awareness banner at Chennai International Airport in India on 21 August\" data-credit=\"R.SATISH BABU\/AFP via Getty Images\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">An mpox awareness banner at Chennai International Airport in India on 21 August<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">R.SATISH BABU\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A new mpox variant called clade Ib that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year has now spread to several neighbouring countries. Sweden and Thailand have also each detected a case in individuals who travelled from this region. So, how serious a threat is it?<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that mpox clade Ib is nowhere near as transmissible as respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, and thus it almost certainly won\u2019t cause a pandemic on the scale of covid-19. However, initial\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2445380-will-mpox-become-a-global-pandemic-like-covid-19\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] An mpox awareness banner at Chennai International Airport in India on 21 August R.SATISH BABU\/AFP via Getty Images A new mpox variant called clade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}