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Children are at high risk—health expert explains why

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A one-month-old baby at an mpox isolation unit in South Kivu province, DRC. Credit: UNICEF

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems are at higher risk from the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reports confirm that children under 5 account for 39% of all cases in the country, and babies as young as 2 weeks

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