“…During the 2022 mpox outbreak, corneal infection seems rare occurring in 2 of 588 patients with mpox (0.3%) at our infectious disease unit between May and October and in 4 of 26577 mpox cases in the US . Only 4 cases have been reported in the literature:1 geographic ulcer, 1 serpiginous linear centripetal keratitis, and 2 undescribed cases . Our cases suggest that arcuate serpiginous centripetal epithelial keratitis, as described by Finamor et al, is specific to mpox.…”