CANADA INVESTIGATING CASES OF MONKEYPOX IN THE COUNTRY As OUTBREAK SPREADS IN U.S And EUROPE

BY Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: Montreal officials are slated to give an update Thursday morning about several suspected cases of monkeypox in the city Montreal Public Health said it's asking health workers to be alert for monkeypox after seeing 17 suspected cases in the area over the last week.Public health chief Dr. Mylene Drouin said Thursday, however, that the illness is not extremely contagious and is the milder of two strains.​

The virus is transmitted by close contact" and respiratory droplets and it's not a sexually transmitted disease, she said, even though so far, those infected in the Montreal area were men who had sexual relations with other men.



The U.S. confirmed its first case of monkeypox in a man who recently travelled to Canada, after European health officials confirmed more than two dozen cases of the rare infectious disease this week.