{"id":253814,"date":"2022-05-21T07:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T07:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253814"},"modified":"2022-05-22T07:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:56:50","slug":"another-virus-another-mask-new-yorkers-told-to-mask-up-again-after-local-patient-tests-positive-for-same-genus-virus-as-monkeypox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253814","title":{"rendered":"Another virus, another mask! New Yorkers told to mask up again after local patient tests POSITIVE for same genus virus as monkeypox:"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An NYC patient has tested positive for orthopoxvirus &#8211; the genus of viruses that includes smallpox, cowpox, horsepox, camelpox, and monkeypox<\/li>\n<li>The CDC is still waiting for confirmation that the patient has monkeypox itself<\/li>\n<li>Health officials have suggested residents wear masks amid the outbreak<\/li>\n<li>The NYC cases comes as Europe confirms 100 infections of the rare disease<\/li>\n<li>The CDC issued an alert Friday telling doctors to\u00a0be &#8216;vigilant&#8217; for cases<\/li>\n<li>WHO called an emergency meeting to discuss the virus&#8217; unprecedented spread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Natasha Anderson \u2013 Daily Mail 21, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>An NYC patient has tested positive for the same genus virus as monkeypox\u00a0sparking calls from the health department for residents to wear masks indoors &#8211; just as New Yorkers were finally returning to mask-free normalcy after COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC is still waiting for confirmation that it is monkeypox, after the patient tested positive for orthopoxvirus &#8211;\u00a0the genus of viruses that includes smallpox, cowpox, horsepox, camelpox, and monkeypox.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say a second possible monkeypox patient tested negative for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The health department is encouraging New Yorkers to wear face masks to protect against the new virus outbreak, as well as COVID-19 and the flu. Monkeypox primarily spreads through physical contact but can also be transmitted through respiratory droplets in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the CDC\u00a0issued an alert Friday urging doctors and health departments to be &#8216;vigilant&#8217; for cases of monkeypox amid increased global spread.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/world-health-organization\/index.html\"><strong>WHO<\/strong><\/a>) held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; outbreak after over 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In what Germany described as the largest outbreak in Europe ever, cases have been reported in at least nine countries &#8211; Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK &#8211; as well as the U.S., Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10839325\/NYC-warns-residents-wear-mask-local-tests-positive-virus-related-monkeypox.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC issues alert and WHO calls emergency meeting after US probes six cases while Europe confirms 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":251678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Health_and_the_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253815,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253814\/revisions\/253815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}