So... An Mpox Clade 1b Case Was Just Seen In At Least One Canadian Who Recently Traveled To West Africa... Ugh.

The importance of available vaccines, in wherever the index cases are seen -- in the future -- cannot be overstated. For its part, Ebola has almost never made wholesale leaps, to other parts of the world, since 2014. That is because we have an effective vaccine -- and each time a new flare-up occurs, everyone who had contact with any index case gets a vaccine. The dying though lamentable, is limited to at most a few dozens, now in all recent outbreaks, post 2017.

So too, we (the WHO, the EU Health Commission, Britain's public health ministers, the US CDC -- and similar Japanese authorities) must now stock the world -- and Africa particularly. . . for the "fire next time" -- even as this Mpox Clade 1b outbreak is leveling off. In Canada -- this represents a still-ongoing failure of public health education, for travelers to West Africa, to be sure. Here's the latest:

. . .Canada’s Public Health Agency (PHAC) has confirmed the country’s first case of clade I mpox in a traveller from Manitoba. The individual contracted the virus, linked to an outbreak in central and eastern Africa, during their travels and sought medical care upon returning to Canada.

“The individual sought medical care for mpox symptoms in Canada shortly after their return and is currently isolating,” reported by Reuters. . . .

PHAC noted that the case was identified as clade Ib mpox following testing by the National Microbiology Laboratory, which informed Manitoba health officials on 22 November. . . .

Now you know -- and. . . go Buffs -- at two this afternoon!

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