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The province says the latest strain of monkeypox has arrived in Canada for the first time, and it's in Manitoba.

WHO acknowledged that testing for mpox is still not widespread, making it difficult to understand how exactly the virus is spreading.

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.

A new study finds that a single dose of the mpox vaccine offers 58 per cent protection against the virus, providing promising evidence for its effectiveness in real-world settings.

Mpox had been spreading mostly undetected for years in Nigeria and elsewhere before the disease prompted the 2022 outbreak in more than 70 countries.

Dr. Luc Boileau, interim public health director in the province, said several more suspected cases of the virus are under investigation in Quebec.

Quebec now has a total of 141 confirmed cases of monkeypox, the province's health department said Thursday. Thousands of people have been vaccinated since late May.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health did not say where in Canada the man travelled to or when, but added the case does not pose a risk to the general public.

The health unit says contacts of the case are being offered a vaccine as a form of post-exposure prophylaxis.

NDP legislator Kristyn Wong-Tam says the isolation recommendation for those who are sick with monkeypox can be 21 days or potentially longer.

The world is no better prepared for a new pandemic threat than it was when COVID-19 emerged in 2019, according to a review panel set up to evaluate the global response.

A Winnipeg man who has had lifelong struggles after contracting polio as a child encourages parents to make sure their children get vaccinated now that the virus has resurfaced.

An executive with Hamilton Health Sciences says a new text-message platform appears to have caught the appeal of parents who have children going through surgery.

There have been 1,600 confirmed and 1,500 suspected cases of monkeypox this year and 72 deaths, WHO said, in 39 countries, including the countries where the virus usually spreads.

On Monday, the health unit said the case was detected in a man in his 30s living in Mississauga.

Health officials expanded the pool of people advised to get vaccinated to include those who may realize on their own that they could have been infected.

The death toll in Ontario has risen to 13,293 from the previous day as four new virus-related death was added.

Quebec has described the monkeypox outbreak in the province as "relatively contained," with 331 cases as of last week and no hospitalizations.

Canadian HIV and AIDS organizations say an international AIDS conference opening in Montreal this week is shining a light on Canada's lagging response to the disease.

The Alberta government is expanding the eligibility criteria of the monkeypox vaccine to those at high risk for exposure to the virus.