LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) – According to the Florida Department of Health’s (FDOH) website, a confirmed, diagnosed case of Monkeypox was reported in Lee County last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The case is reported on \u00a0between the timeframe of January 1, 2026, and January 24, 2026. The confirmed case involves a person aged 35 to 39 who acquired the virus in Florida, according to FDOH\u2019s data.<\/p>\n
In the same timeframe, there are 16 confirmed cases statewide of Monkeypox acquired in Florida.<\/p>\n
According to FDOH, Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by a virus primarily found in central and western Africa. It can be transmitted from animals to humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the , monkeypox is not very contagious, with the risk of contracting the disease low.<\/p>\n
The website also states, “Recently, there has been an increase in human mpox infections in different parts of the world, including the U.S.”<\/p>\n
Symptoms are flu-like, including fever, chills, headache, tiredness, and muscle aches.<\/p>\n
Currently, the gender, name of the individual and current condition of the confirmed Lee County case is unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WINK News is actively working to gather more information about the local case and will provide updates as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) – According to the Florida Department of Health’s (FDOH) website, a confirmed, diagnosed case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,69790,9256,69792,1618,28,356,69791,69789,69788,69787,4571,69793,38979],"class_list":["post-144056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-central-africa","tag-department-of-health","tag-dept-of-health","tag-fla","tag-florida","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-lee-county","tag-monkeypox","tag-monkeys-in-chinese-culture","tag-pox","tag-united-states","tag-western-africa","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}