Quebec now has a total of 141 confirmed cases of monkeypox, the province’s health department said Thursday.
The latest update is a new addition to the previous count released earlier this week, when that number was 132. Most infections are in Montreal, public health officials said.
The province has been administering 3,936 doses of the Imvamune smallpox vaccine since late May, when it was first available.
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Smallpox is a rare disease. It comes from the same smallpox virus that the World Health Organization declared eradicated worldwide in 1980.
The virus spreads through prolonged intimate contact, but is not very contagious in a typical social setting. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, swollen lymph nodes, and injuries.
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Quebec reported the first cases of monkeypox in Canada last month, with the first suspected infections reported on May 12 in Montreal.
– with archives of The Canadian Press
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