{"id":965350,"date":"2024-07-11T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965350"},"modified":"2024-07-11T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:47:38","slug":"two-additional-cases-of-mpox-recorded-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/two-additional-cases-of-mpox-recorded-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Two additional cases of Mpox recorded this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health has recorded two additional confirmed cases of Mpox this week bringing the total number of cases to 22 since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/mpox-what-to-watch-out-for-treatment-and-what-to-worry-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the outbreak began in May<\/a>. However, the number of deaths remains at three.<\/p>\n<p>The latest cases include a 40-year-old man diagnosed at a private health facility in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 6 July. The patient is from Johannesburg, Gauteng but traveled to Durban over the past weekend where Mpox-like rash developed.<\/p>\n<p>The other case is a 26-year-old man from Nqutu in KwaZulu-Natal who presented with Mpox-like rash to a local hospital. Both new cases self-identified as MSM with no international, but local travel history.<\/p>\n<p>The public is advised to remain cautious and take necessary precautions to prevent the spread of Mpox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mpox | Mpox on the rise as more patients test positive 23 June 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8x7mSFFGwSU?si=o5_Oz8SoExEDpKie\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Health has recorded two additional confirmed cases of Mpox this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}