Monkeypox and pregnancy: what do obstetricians need to know?

A. KHALIL1,2* , A. SAMARA3,4, P. O’BRIEN5,6, E. MORRIS5,7, T. DRAYCOTT5,8, C. LEES9 and S. LADHANI10,11,12 1Fetal Medicine Unit, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of London, London, UK; 2Vascular Biology Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George’s University of London, London, UK; 3Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; 4Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; 5The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK; 6University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; 7Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, Norfolk, UK; 8North Bristol NHS Trust Department of Women’s Health, Westbury on Trym, UK; 9Imperial College London, London, UK; 10Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group and Vaccine Institute, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, London, UK; 11Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health, England; 12British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK *Correspondence. (e-mail: akhalil@sgul.ac.uk)