At least five newborns have died in an mpox outbreak in Pakistan, raising concerns over undetected transmission and lapses in infection control inside the country’s hospitals. So far this year, health officials in the southeastern Sindh province have reported 122 suspected mpox cases, according to local media. Of these, 25 infections have been laboratory confirmed. Nine people have died, including at least five newborns in neonatal units. The deadly outbreak is concentrated in two densely-packed cities, Khairpur and Karachi, and has raised concerns that the virus has gained a foothold in Pakistan. Until now, only sporadic imported infections had been detected, mainly among people with travel links to the Middle East. It has also resurfaced long-standing unease around infection prevention and control measures inside the South Asian country’s hospitals, with officials investigating how the five dead newborns contracted the virus while in neonatal wards.…