There are currently a total of 141 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Quebec, the province’s health department said on Thursday.
The latest update is a nine-fold increase from the previous issue, published earlier this week at 132. Most infections are in Montreal, public health officials said.
The province has administered 3,936 doses of Imvamune measles vaccine since late May, when it first became available.
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Monkeypox is a rare disease. It comes from the same family of viruses that caused smallpox, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated worldwide in 1980.
The virus is spread through prolonged intimate contact, but is not very contagious in a typical social environment. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, swollen lymph nodes and lesions.
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Quebec recorded the first cases of monkeypox in Canada last month, with the first suspected infections reported on May 12 in Montreal.
– with files from The Canadian Press
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