9 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Toronto as nationwide count reaches 110. Toronto Public Health investigating 23 more possible cases.
Posted: Jun 09, 2022 5:30 PM ET | Last Updated: 8 hours agoAs of June 9, the city's public health agency says 23 other cases are under investigation. On Thursday, TPH updated the tracker on its website indicating the new cases.Across Canada, there are 98 confirmed cases in Quebec, at least nine in Ontario, two in Alberta, and one in B.C
Canada now has 110 confirmed cases of monkeypox, Health Canada's tracker shows. Nearly 780 lab-confirmed cases have been reported across 30 countries, largely among men.The federal government has issued an advisory notice warning travellers to be extra careful when abroad because of the threat of catching the virus.
Monkeypox is a rare disease that comes from the same family of viruses that causes smallpox, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated around the globe in 1980, but it generally does not spread easily between people and is transmitted through prolonged close contact.Monkeypox warnings 'went ignored,' and now world must brace for more outbreaks: scientists
It typically spreads from close person-to-person contact through respiratory droplets, direct contact with skin lesions or bodily fluids, or indirect contact through contaminated clothing or linens. The health unit says symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, swollen lymph nodes and a rash that "often appears within a few days after symptoms begin.Since the outbreak began in several countries around the world in early May, there have been no reported deaths.Multiple outbreaks of monkeypox globally, says epidemiologistThe finding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that that there are two distinct monkeypox outbreaks underway in the U.S.