Combating smallpox at the epicentre of the outbreak in Congo

“It is a huge challenge,” said Pierre-Olivier Ngadjole, a doctor with the Swiss humanitarian organisation Medair, which runs the treatment centre in Munigi.

At the hospital in South Kivu, Nathalie’s mother, Ms Binja, said she was aware she could have been infected with mpox because of close contact with her daughter.

But she said, “I don’t want to leave her alone, I don’t want her to die.”