{"id":6733,"date":"2024-08-16T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbuddy.co.in\/?p=6733"},"modified":"2024-08-16T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:48:38","slug":"first-case-of-ampox-infection-reported-outside-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/?p=6733","title":{"rendered":"First case of ampox infection reported outside Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>London (Team Newsbuddy):<\/em><\/strong> Sweden&#8217;s public health agency has reported the first case of ampox outside Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Swedish agency says that the infected person was infected with ampox while living in Africa.<br>The World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency due to the ampox disease spreading in parts of Africa.<br>The organization has also described this disease as a matter of international concern.<br>According to Olivia Wigzel, the executive head of Sweden&#8217;s public health agency, the infected person had asked that he be treated in Stockholm, so that the risk of this infection to other people can be reduced.<br>WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had expressed his concern about the possibility of the disease spreading in Africa and beyond.<br>Ampox is an infectious disease, which was earlier also known as monkeypox. In the African country Congo, more than 450 people have lost their lives in the initial phase of&nbsp;this&nbsp;disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (Team Newsbuddy): Sweden&#8217;s public health agency has reported the first case of ampox outside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-newstoday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6733\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}