Canada’s chief public health officer Theresa Tam has confirmed a total of 278 smallpox cases in the country as of June 29.
Cases were reported nationwide, including four from British Columbia, five from Alberta, 67 from Ontario and 202 from Quebec, the top doctor said on Thursday. Tam reiterated that the risk of exposure to the monkey pox virus is not exclusive to any group or environment, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Anyone, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, could become infected and transmit the virus if they come in close contact with someone who has smallpox or has direct contact with personal or shared objects, such as towels or bedding. .
According to Tam, the latest epidemiological data show that the majority of cases are men and range between 20 and 69 years.
Monkey pox is a zoonotic disease that can cause infections in humans and the disease usually occurs in forested areas of Central and West Africa. It is caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the orthopoxic virus family, according to the World Health Organization.
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