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It will be offered from October 6 “to all people who received the first dose and who are still at risk of infection”.
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Oct 05, 2022 • 46 minutes ago • Read 2 minutes • Join the conversation People walk past a smallpox vaccination clinic in Montreal on June 15, 2022. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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Quebec now has 404 confirmed or probable cases of monkeypox, including six reported in the past week, Montreal public health said Wednesday.
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“While the number of newly reported cases has gradually declined over the past few weeks and is now relatively low, the risk of importation remains high due to ongoing transmission elsewhere in the world,” the Department of Health said. public health
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He also noted that “the duration of immunity conferred by one dose of vaccine is not known.”
Thanks to a new supply of vaccines, second doses will be offered starting Thursday, October 6, the department announced.
This follow-up dose “will be offered to all people who received the first dose and who remain at risk of infection.”
The second dose can be given 28 days after the first dose. It can only be administered to people who do not have symptoms.
Five clinics offer the vaccine, with or without an appointment.
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Monkey pox is associated with a painful rash.
In an update released Wednesday, the public health department said local cases often involve injuries to the genital organs, limbs, anal region, face or trunk.
Several patients have reported swollen lymph nodes, fatigue, fever, headache, night sweats, muscle pain, joint stiffness, sore throat, cough, or rectal pain.
Although not strictly considered a sexually transmitted infection, it is spread through contact with bodily fluids or scabs and contaminated personal items.
The public health department says the vaccine is being offered to several groups.
They include people who, in the last 14 days, have had:
- Direct contact (skin to skin) with someone who has smallpox (confirmed or probable case).
- Direct contact with objects or bedding potentially contaminated with the monkeypox virus, at an event or social gathering where there is sexual activity.
- Physical contact less than one meter with someone who has smallpox (confirmed or probable case), when not wearing a mask and for at least three hours (total more than 24 hours).
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The vaccine is also available to gay, bisexual, straight, pansexual, or queer men, and to transfeminine, transmasculine, bispiritual, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming people who have sexual contact with at least one male partner in Montreal (except a single regular partner) at an event or social gathering where there is sexual activity or in exchange for money or other goods and services.
In addition, the vaccine is offered to workers and volunteers at a GBTQ+ event or social gathering in Montreal where there is sexual activity, as well as to people who exchange sexual favors for money, goods or services.
Across Quebec, 521 cases of smallpox have been reported, according to the provincial health department.
Canada has recorded 1,400 cases. Quebec has the second highest number of cases in the country, after Ontario, which has reported 674 cases.
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