{"id":4397,"date":"2025-12-17T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:35:20","slug":"england-health-officials-identify-newly-evolved-variant-of-mpox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/17\/england-health-officials-identify-newly-evolved-variant-of-mpox\/","title":{"rendered":"England health officials identify newly evolved variant of mpox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected a new &#8220;recombinant&#8221; variant of the mpox virus in an individual who recently traveled to Asia. This new strain contains genetic material from both the more severe clade 1 and the less virulent clade 2, highlighting the virus&#8217;s continued evolution. Health officials emphasized that while the emergence of such variants is expected, ongoing genomic surveillance is crucial to understand its potential impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 8, 2025. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/08\/england-health-officials-identify-newly-evolved-strain-of-mpox\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has detected a new &#8220;recombinant&#8221; variant of the mpox virus in an individual who recently traveled to Asia. This new strain contains genetic material from both the more severe clade 1 and the less virulent clade 2, highlighting the virus&#8217;s continued evolution. Health officials emphasized that while the emergence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}