Friday 20 May 2022 – 13:00 WIB
LIVE – The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed Thursday, May 19, 2022 the first two cases of infection with the monkeypox virus after authorities in the province of Quebec announced they were investigating 17 suspected cases. .
A number of countries, including Portugal and Spain, have reported cases of monkeypox in recent weeks, with one case in the United States identified by Massachusetts public health officials on May 18 in a man who recently visited the Canadian province of Quebec.
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“Tonight, the province of Quebec was informed that two samples received by the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) tested positive for monkeypox. These are the first two confirmed cases in Canada,” the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said in a statement.
He added that Canada had never seen a case of monkeypox. Monkeypox, which occurs mainly in West and Central Africa, is a rare viral infection similar to human smallpox, although milder.
The case was first reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1970s. The number of cases in West Africa has increased over the past decade. Symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash starting on the face and spreading all over the body.
Health officials in Montreal, Quebec’s largest city, told reporters early Thursday that there was a link between the US case of monkeypox in Massachusetts and a number of suspected cases in the Montreal area.
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