Mpox among children in Africa

Affiliations

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Electronic address: NjiT@africacdc.org.
² Emergency Operations Centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
³ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Department of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Kyeng Mercy et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025 May.

. 2025 May;9(5):287-290.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00064-1. Epub 2025 Mar 17.

¹ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Electronic address: NjiT@africacdc.org.
² Emergency Operations Centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, DR Congo.
³ Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Surveillance and Disease Intelligence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Department of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests. For author contributions, see appendix (p 6).