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Interim National Public Health Director Dr. Luc Boileau said Thursday that the total number of confirmed monkeypox cases in Quebec had risen to 25. Other possible cases involving lesions on the skin, a symptom of the disease, are under investigation.
While the outbreak is unusual, it remains "containable", the WHO said, and it is convening further meetings to support member states with more advice on how to tackle the outbreak.
Oh you know, inflation, an ever-lingering pandemic, weird weather stuff, and now...monkeypox. The strangeness of 2020 lingers even two years later.
The Public Health Agency (PHAC) announced Thursday night that following positive lab tests, it had confirmed the first monkeypox cases in Canada, both in Quebec. Earlier in the day, Montreal's public health director, Dr. Mylène Drouin, said there were 17 suspected cases in the Montreal area: 15 in the city itself, and two each on the South and North Shores.On Friday morning, Montreal public health upped the suspected case count on Montreal Island, alone, to 18.The suspected cases are possibly linked to a Monkeypox-positive individual in Massachusetts who travelled to Quebec, according to ...
The US has confirmed the first case of Monkeypox in a Massachusetts man, while the infection spreads to Europe with 14 cases of the virus confirmed across the UK, Portugal and Spain. 🌎 Monkeypox Outbreak: US Reports First Case in Massachusetts State, 14 Confirmed Cases in Europe.