Monkeypox in Canada: 112 infections reported as global cases top 1,000
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As monkeypox continues to spread worldwide, a total of 112 cases have been reported in Canada as of Thursday. A vast majority of the cases have been identified in Quebec.
A total of 112 cases of monkeypox have been reported in Canada as of Thursday, according to the country’s public health agency and Alberta’s chief medial officer of health.
One case has been identified in British Columbia, four in Alberta, nine in Ontario and 98 in Quebec.
Monkeypox is a rare disease that comes from the same family of viruses that cause smallpox, which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared eradicated worldwide in 1980.
With the vast majority of Canada’s monkeypox cases in Quebec, the province began to offer a smallpox vaccine to specific close contacts of those infected.
As of June 9, 1,622 people have been vaccinated, Quebec’s Health Department said.
Canada stopped routinely immunizing people against smallpox in 1972.
Toronto has 23 cases under investigation as of Thursday, according to its public health unit.
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