Children at risk as mpox arrives in Congolese IDP camps

Local doctors say they have seen 130 suspected cases of mpox, almost all in children and adolescents, in the past four weeks at a nearby centre that treats displaced people from the camps. ‘Fifty percent of the 130 cases are under the age of five,’ said Dr Pierre-Olivier Ngadjole, a medical adviser at Medair. 

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