The World Health Organization will officially rename monkeypox, in light of concerns about stigma and racism surrounding the virus that has infected over 1,600 people in more than two-dozen countries.
The proposal echoes a similar controversy that erupted when the WHO moved quickly to rename SARS-CoV-2 after people around the world referred to it as the China or Wuhan virus in the absence of an official designation. The actual animal source of monkeypox, which has been found in a wide variety of mammals, remains unknown.
Naming diseases “should be done with the aim to minimize the negative impact,” the spokesperson said in an e-mail, “and avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.”
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