Footnotes

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• Collaborators Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Monkeypox Working Group Members: Alasdair Bamford, Sarah Eisen, Marieke Emonts, David Ho, Seilesh Kadambari, Julia Kenny, Hermione Lyall, Stephen Owens, David Porter, Andrew Riordan, Liz Whittaker, Bhanu Williams.

• Contributors All authors contributed equally to the editorial.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.