Quebec has confirmed that monkeypox cases will rise to 15

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This 2003 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature oval smallpox virions, left and spherical immature virions on the right, obtained from a human skin sample associated with the prairie epidemic. dog in 2003. Photo by Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner / CDC by ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Quebec health officials have reported 10 more cases of monkeypox, a total of 15 confirmed cases across the province.

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Last week, the province reported the first cases of the virus in Canada.

Health Ministry spokesman Robert Maranda said on Tuesday that Quebec was considering ordering vaccines against the disease from the federal government.

The Public Health Agency of Canada announced last week that it is investigating about two dozen possible cases of monkeypox in the country in addition to the confirmed cases in Quebec.

Toronto Public Health said over the weekend that it was investigating the first suspected case in Ontario.

Monkeypox is a rare disease that comes from the same family of viruses that causes smallpox, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. It is spread through prolonged closed contact and can cause fever, headaches, muscle aches, exhaustion, swollen lymph nodes and lesions.

“We don’t need to panic at this point,” Montreal Public Health Director Milen Druen said last week after Quebec confirmed its first two cases. “This is not something that will go for long-term transmission in the community. It’s not something you can get if you go to the grocery store or take public transportation. ”

This story was created with the financial support of the Meta and Canadian Press News Fellowship.