Canada has confirmed its first 2 cases of monkeypox. Public Health Agency of Canada statement below. Previous story for context:
Dr. Mylene Drouin, Montreal's public health director, says the first suspected cases of monkeypox in the region were reported on May 12, tied mostly to men aged 30 to 55 who have had sexual relations with other men.
Earlier on Thursday, Montreal's top public health official urged people not to panic as her department investigated 17 cases of suspected monkeypox in the greater Montreal region. The virus is not sexually transmitted, Drouin explained, but is mainly spread "by close contact and [respiratory] droplets."
A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. The incubation period for monkeypox is between seven to 14 days, according to the doctor, but it can be as short as five days and as long as 21. A person is likely to be contagious one day before symptoms appear, he said.
"We [likely] have the western virus, which is less contagious. So I'm pretty much sure this is going to be a milder course of disease," said Pilarski. "But we cannot eliminate the possibility of serious complications."
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