{"id":1496693,"date":"2022-05-30T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496693"},"modified":"2022-05-30T07:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:32:45","slug":"cdc-raises-monkeypox-travel-alert-to-level-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-raises-monkeypox-travel-alert-to-level-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Raises Monkeypox Travel Alert to Level 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-raises-monkeypox-travel-alert-to-level-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496693&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-08\/GettyImages-1210839855.jpg?h=ae4494b8&#038;itok=q9hbZcHe\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning travelers to &#8220;practice enhanced precautions&#8221; to avoid monkeypox as cases have been confirmed in 20 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization made a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2022-DON388\">announcement<\/a> on Sunday, assessing the global risk level as &#8220;moderate&#8221; with nearly 260 confirmed cases across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO is monitoring about 120 suspected monkeypox cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data show that the currently circulating virus is the West African strain, which has about a 1% case fatality rate. The global health organization stated that no deaths have been reported from monkeypox during this outbreak so far.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/alert\/monkeypox\">announcement<\/a>\u00a0moves the travel advisory from a Level 1 watch to a Level 2 alert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The virus, which is normally found in central and west Africa, has been reported in Europe, North America and Australia over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some cases were reported among men who have sex with men. Some cases were also reported in people who live in the same household as an infected person,&#8221; the CDC noted.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/health\/monkeypox-outbreak-mainly-identified-amongst-men-who-have-sex-men-who\">WHO<\/a>\u00a0officials observed last week that cases were more common amongst the sexual minority group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning travelers to &#8220;practice enhanced precautions&#8221; to avoid monkeypox as cases have been confirmed in 20 countries.The World Health Organization made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1496719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}