Mpox: an old disease poses a new threat

Affiliations

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Haile Garment Square, PO Box 3243 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
² Department of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
³ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Nelson R Mandela Medical School, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Editorial

Nicaise Ndembi et al. Bull World Health Organ. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 1;102(12):844-844A.

doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.292707.

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Haile Garment Square, PO Box 3243 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
² Department of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
³ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Nelson R Mandela Medical School, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

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