Public health agencies are encouraging people who received a first dose of mpox vaccine over the last two years to make sure they get a second dose.
A family nurse practitioner prepares a syringe with the mpox vaccine for inoculating a patient at a vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jeenah Moon
People eligible for vaccination include men who have sex with men and have more than one partner; men who have sex with men who have gone to venues for sexual contact; people who work in those venues; and sex workers, regardless of gender. As of Aug. 14, 18,349 people in Montreal had received one dose of Imvamune, but only about half of them — 9,645 people — had received a second dose, the statement said.
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