WSJ An earlier strain was concentrated among adult men. Now the virus is moving quickly between children and in many cases it is proving fatal. Democratic Republic of Congo—The sound of children crying never lets up in this overcrowded village clinic. Grade-school boys and girls roam around barefoot, covered in bulbous sores. Sick infants lie beside their mothers in rooms that were designed for two people but now hold 14.
Lwiro, a small settlement in eastern Congo surrounded by banana and cassava fields, sits at the center of a spiraling epidemic caused by a new version of the Mpox virus—one that is disproportionately infecting, and sometimes killing, children.