The agency's latest report says the cases are largely in southern Ontario, with 172 cases in Toronto, as well as one each in Sudbury and North Bay.
The Canadian PressThe telltale lesions of monkeypox, as seen on the skin of an infected rhesus macaque, a type of monkey found throughout Asia.
One of the confirmed cases is a female — which was recorded last week — and the rest of the people affected are male, with an average age of 37. The report says nine people have been hospitalized with the illness and one person has been in intensive care.Monkeypox not a global health emergency 'at this stage,' says WHO
The virus generally doesn't spread easily and is transmitted through prolonged close contact via respiratory droplets, direct contact with skin lesions or bodily fluids, or through contaminated clothes or bedding.The monkeypox disease comes from the same family of viruses that cause smallpox, which the World Health Organization declared eradicated around the globe in 1980. Smallpox vaccines have proven effective in combating the monkeypox virus.
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