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Although countries including Britain, Canada, Germany and the U.S. have ordered millions of monkeypox vaccine doses, none have gone to Africa.

"The solution needs to be global," Mbala said, adding that any vaccines sent to risk, like hunters in rural areas.

"Vaccination in the West might help stop the outbreak there, but there will still be cases in Africa," he said. "Unless the problem is solved here, the risk to the rest of the world will remain."

Health officials have confirmed the first two U.S. cases of monkeypox in children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.

Both cases are "likely the result of household transmission" and "had no contact with each other," the agency said in a statement.

One is a toddler who lives in California and the other is in an infant buy phone number list who is not a resident of the U.S. and was "transiting through" the Washington, D.C. area when the test was done.

"We became aware of these cases just this week, and we've been working with the jurisdictions to understand more about these cases," the CDC's Jennifer McQuiston told reporters on Friday.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky first disclosed news of the cases at a virtual event with The Washington Post on Friday, saying that both children "are doing well."

Children, especially those under 8 years old, are among those the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns are at "especially increased risk" for severe monkeypox disease.

Last week, CDC officials told reporters that at that point, they were only aware of monkeypox cases in adults. But the agency acknowledged that state and local health authorities had only relayed additional demographic information to them for less than half of all tallied cases.