{"id":527644,"date":"2026-03-10T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:28:08","slug":"toronto-public-health-confirms-ontarios-first-cases-of-another-mpox-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527644\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Public Health confirms Ontario&#8217;s first cases of another mpox variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Public health officials in Toronto say two travel-related cases of another type of mpox have been confirmed for the first time in the city and the province.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Public Health says the variant known as clade Ib has been associated with mpox outbreaks in parts of Central and Eastern Africa and was found in a small number of travel-related cases in Europe and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>It says that since 2022, mpox cases in Toronto have only involved the IIb strain of the virus. <\/p>\n<p>Public health says both mpox variants can cause painful skin lesions, fever and other flu-like symptoms. <\/p>\n<p>It is encouraging eligible Toronto residents to get the mpox vaccine, which is free and available without a health card. <\/p>\n<p>Public health says 155 mpox cases were confirmed in Toronto in 2025, with a higher concentration of cases among residents in the downtown core.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Public health officials in Toronto say two travel-related cases of another type of mpox have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-527644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}