Khairpur sees mpox outbreak as seven babies test positive

• Health dept confirms four of seven children who died last month in Khairpur hospitals had mpox• Claims deaths not directly linked to zoonotic viral infection• Sukkur commissioner asks DHO to initiate ‘comprehensive contact tracing’• Babies seemed to have infected from unsterilized hospital equipment: sources• Many ‘chickenpox-like’ cases reported from other districts KARACHI / SUKKUR: An outbreak of mpox, the first local outbreak of the zoonotic viral infection in the country, has claimed the...