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This 2003 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval, monkeypox virions on the left and immature spheres on the right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Photo by Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner / CDC via THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Quebec health officials report 10 more cases of monkeypox, for a total of 15 confirmed cases across the province.
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Last week, the province reported the first cases of the virus in Canada.
Health Department spokesman Robert Maranda said Tuesday that Quebec is considering requesting vaccines against the disease from the federal government.
The Public Health Agency of Canada said last week that it was investigating about two dozen possible cases of monkeypox in the country, in addition to confirmed cases in Quebec.
Toronto Public Health said over the weekend that it was investigating Ontario’s first suspicious case.
Smallpox is a rare disease that comes from the same family of viruses that cause smallpox, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. It is spread by prolonged close contact and can cause fever, headache, muscle aches, exhaustion, lymph inflammation. lymph nodes and lesions.
“We don’t have to panic right now,” Montreal Public Health Director Mylène Drouin said last week after Quebec confirmed its first two cases. “It’s not something that will go to sustained community transmission. It’s not something you can buy if you go to the grocery store or go on public transportation.”
This story was produced with the financial assistance of Meta and the Canadian Press News Fellowship.