Canada Records 112 Monkeypox Cases- Official Says

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Thresa Tam said on Friday that 112 Monkeypox cases across Canada, and all of the confirmed cases are males.

98 cases were detected in Quebec, nine in Ontario, four in Alberta, and one in British Columbia, according to Tam's briefing.

She added that the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommended that people who could be at high risk to get vaccinated.

However, no plans for a mass vaccination campaign against the virus were set by the government.

Tam said the “primary goal” was to control that the outbreak and to prevent any further emergence of the virus nationwide, asserting: “This means rapidly stopping chains of transmission.”

It is worthy to mention that the World Health Organization (WHO) considered that the risk of the spread of monkeypox virus outside the countries where the disease is endemic is “real”, with 1,000 cases already recorded.“The risk of (monkeypox) spreading in countries where the disease is not endemic is real, but this scenario can be avoided,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press conference.

Therefore, the UN organization  encourages countries to increase health surveillance measures “to monitor all infections and contacts to control this outbreak and prevent infection.”

Dr. Ghebreyesus added that the WHO   has been informed of recording of more than a thousand confirmed cases of monkeypox so far in 29 countries where the disease is not endemic.

But no deaths were reported in these countries, unlike those in which the disease is endemic, including Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the World Health Organization.