Toronto Public Health says it will begin organizing vaccination clinics to immunize high-risk people from the monkeypox virus from Sunday.
He says several clinics will be held in the coming weeks to vaccinate those who have had close contact with someone who has tested positive and those most at risk of exposure to the virus.
Sunday’s clinic is for city bathroom employees.
Toronto Public Health says there are 11 confirmed cases in the city on Saturday, two more than the provincial total again published a day earlier by the Canadian director of public health when he reported a national count of 112 cases.
Dr. Theresa Tam said most cases are among men who said they had had sexual contact with other men, although the virus can be spread to anyone who has had close physical contact with an infected person.
Smallpox vaccine belongs to the same virus family as smallpox, and smallpox vaccines have been shown to be effective in fighting the related virus. The National Immunization Advisory Committee advises offering a single dose of the Imvamune vaccine to people at high risk of exposure to a probable or confirmed case of monkeypox, or in an environment where transmission can occur within a period of four days.
On June 6, 2022 in Madrid, Spain, he was reactive to test samples of suspicious smallpox in a refrigerator in the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on June 11, 2022.
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