EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Public Health Department just reported the city’s first Mpox case of the year. The patient is a man in his 50s who is currently recovering at home.<\/p>\n
Public health officials are not contact tracing and the epidemiology team is contacting the man’s close contacts and offering the vaccine to those people.<\/p>\n
Mpox is a viral infection that spreads by skin-to-skin contact. Health officials say it can be transmitted from certain animals to humans. Mpox causes a distinctive, itchy rash that will progress through several stages, including scabs, before healing completely.<\/p>\n
Other symptoms include fever, chills, exhaustion, headaches, muscle aches, back pain, and swollen lymph nodes. Symptoms usually start within three weeks of exposure. Health officials say a person is contagious from the time symptoms appear to when the rash has fully healed. They recommend avoiding skin-to-skin contact with people displaying a rash and washing your hands frequently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge everyone at-risk to remain vigilant in practicing preventive measures to protect themselves and their families,\u201d said Dr. Hector Ocaranza, City-County Health Authority. \u201cThis includes safeguarding our most vulnerable community members from not only Mpox, but also other diseases like COVID-19 and the flu.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Public Health Department just reported the city’s first Mpox case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-90178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}