{"id":79144,"date":"2026-07-02T05:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mpox-more-than-20-cases-last-month-in-northern-ireland\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:20:45","slug":"mpox-more-than-20-cases-last-month-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/mpox-more-than-20-cases-last-month-in-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mpox: More than 20 cases last month in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Public Health Agency (PHA) has confirmed that 21 cases of mpox have been detected in Northern Ireland in the last three weeks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before this, only nine cases had been reported in Northern Ireland since 2023, meaning the number in recent weeks is a significant increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current cases are more prevalent among men who have sex with men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PHA has encouraged those who are eligible for vaccination to contact their local sexual health clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC News NI, Dr Rachel Coyle, consultant in health protection at the PHA, said: &#8220;Over the last three weeks we&#8217;ve had 21 cases of mpox diagnosed in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To put that into context, through the rest of 2026 up &#8217;til now we haven&#8217;t had any cases of mpox diagnosed, so it does represent a quite a quick increase in the number of cases being diagnosed here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqx1d8e1595o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Health Agency (PHA) has confirmed that 21 cases of mpox have been detected in Northern Ireland in the last three weeks. Before this, only nine cases had been reported in Northern Ireland since 2023, meaning the number in recent weeks is a significant increase. The current cases are more prevalent among men who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[309,904,392,10470,903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79146,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79144\/revisions\/79146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}