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More than 450 people have died of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, and children seem to make up the lion’s share of the cases there. Dr. Pierre Olivier Ngadjole of the charity Medair tells the BBC that 75% of those who’ve contracted the infectious disease at a Munigi clinic in the country’s east are children under the age of 10, with the outlet citing kids’ less-developed immune systems as part of the issue. Ngadjole also notes that those sheltering at a camp for people displaced by conflict in the region are crammed in tight quarters, and that children “are always play…

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