{"id":222345,"date":"2022-10-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=222345"},"modified":"2022-10-16T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:31:05","slug":"texas-monkeypox-weekly-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/texas-monkeypox-weekly-update","title":{"rendered":"Texas monkeypox weekly update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 4, 2022, the Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency . Since then, every state and Washington, D.C. has recorded cases of the virus, with the first death from monkeypox confirmed on August 30 in Texas. Though monkeypox is not a new disease &#8212;it was discovered in animals in 1958 and in humans in 1970&#8212;the sudden influx of active cases presents a significant risk. The primary hallmark of the monkeypox virus is the rash, or &#8220;pox,&#8221; that infected individuals develop. Other symptoms include fever, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes. Monkeypox is spread via close skin-to-skin contact with an infected individual or by contact with infected body fluids on surfaces; the virus can live on surfaces for up to fifteen days. The CDC recommends getting the monkeypox vaccine when you are eligible and communicating openly with close contacts and medical professionals if you or those you are close with develop symptoms of monkeypox. Stacker is collecting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacker investigated the state of the monkeypox outbreak in Texas using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[59,42,58],"class_list":["post-222345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-health","tag-politics","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}