Canada's top doctors talk monkeypox risk, COVID-19 hits new death toll | FULL

Canada's top doctors faced questioning Friday over the risk recently reported cases of monkeypox posed to the public after two were confirmed Thursday night with several still under investigation.
Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said the global spread of the disease was "unusual" due to the lack of connection to travel to Africa, where monkeypox is primarily seen. However, both she and deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo stressed the risk to the overall public was low, advising that it primarily spreads by close contact.

Symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue and muscle aches, according to the U.S. CDC. It added that after one to three days of fever, sufferers can develop a facial rash that then spreads to other parts of the body as lesions, which later fall off.

Tam also discussed various vaccine strategies being looked at for monkeypox, as while there is no inoculation specifically for the disease, data shows smallpox vaccines are up to 85 per cent effective. She said that among those strategies being explored are giving a vaccine potentially prior to exposure, or to those higher-risk contacts of people who may have been diagnosed.

The doctors also spoke about COVID-19 in the country, saying hospitalizations remain "elevated" but there were signs severe illness trends were declining. However, she also said that last week the country surpassed 40,000 deaths related to COVID-19.

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