Canada considers smallpox vaccine for monkeypox cases, says Dr. Theresa Tam – Williams Lake Tribune
The risk of monkeypox is low, but almost everyone in Canada is susceptible because routine smallpox vaccination ended decades ago, top public health officials said Friday. Smallpox is a rare disease that comes from the same virus family as smallpox. This virus causes smallpox, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. It …