The type of mpox spreading rapidly through several African countries could arrive in Canada, where that strain hasn't appeared before, Canadian experts say.
The detection of clade I mpox in Sweden in someone who had travelled to an affected African country is a “harbinger” of broader spread, said Dr. Fahad Razak, an internal medicine specialist and epidemiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.
was partly based on the surge of clade I in Congo and its appearance in nearby Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda — four countries that had not had mpox of any kind before. McGeer noted that we didn’t get any Ebola cases in Canada during the west African outbreak about a decade ago.If clade I mpox is mostly spreading in rural areas from animals and within households — and if there’s not a lot of travel happening in those settings — Canada may not see cases, or only a few of them, she said in an email on Thursday.On Wednesday, the Public Health Agency of Canada said there have been no cases of clade I mpox cases in this country.
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