Public Health Ontario reports 230 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the province, most of which are in Toronto.
The count as of Monday has risen in 74 cases from 156 confirmed on July 11th.
The agency’s latest report says the cases are largely in southern Ontario, with 172 cases in Toronto, as well as one in Sudbury and North Bay.
One of the confirmed cases is a woman – who registered last week – and the rest of the people affected are men, with an average age of 37 years.
Public health says most cases are among men who report intimate contact with men, but says anyone can suffer from monkeypox.
The report says nine people have been hospitalized with the disease and one person has been in intensive care.
There are also eight probable cases of monkeypox in Ontario, all in men between the ages of 31 and 69.
Dr. Kieran Moore, the province’s medical director of health, recently said the monkey’s smallpox is likely to exist for “many months” due to its long incubation period, but noted that Ontario is not seeing rapid growth. of the virus.
In general, the virus does not spread easily and is transmitted by prolonged close contact through respiratory droplets, direct contact with skin lesions or body fluids, or through contaminated clothing or bedding.
Common symptoms include rash, oral and genital lesions, and swollen lymph nodes.
Smallpox smallpox disease comes from the same family of smallpox-causing viruses, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. Smallpox vaccines have been shown to be effective in combating smallpox. the smallpox virus.
Local Ontario public health units have vaccination clinics for those the province believes are at high risk of contracting monkeypox.
Moore has said the province is not looking to expand its vaccination strategy at this time because “it looks like it’s working.”