{"id":529545,"date":"2026-03-11T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:20:15","slug":"ontarios-first-cases-of-another-mpox-variant-confirmed-public-health-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529545\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s first cases of another mpox variant confirmed, public health says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto Public Health is encouraging eligible Toronto residents to get the mpox vaccine, which is free and available without a health card.Moses Sawasawa\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

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

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

It says that since 2022, mpox cases in Toronto have only involved the IIb strain of the virus. <\/p>\n

Public health says both mpox variants can cause painful skin lesions, fever and other flu-like symptoms. <\/p>\n

It is encouraging eligible Toronto residents to get the mpox vaccine, which is free and available without a health card. <\/p>\n

Public health says 155 mpox cases were confirmed in Toronto in 2025, with a higher concentration of cases among residents in the downtown core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto Public Health is encouraging eligible Toronto residents to get the mpox vaccine,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,84,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-529545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-health","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529545","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=529545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}