Monkeypox will be getting a new name, following a global consultation with experts, in a move designed to avoid discrimination and stigma attached to the current one, says the World Health Organization.
“Considerations for the recommendations included rationale, scientific appropriateness, extent of current usage, pronounceability, usability in different languages, absence of geographical or zoological references, and the ease of retrieval of historical scientific information,” said the organization.
As several countries suffered outbreaks this year, WHO said it had been approached by individuals and countries asking it to stem the tide of racist language and behaviour online and off, linked to the name. It was given its name in 1970, after the virus that caused it was identified as one discovered in captured monkeys in 1958. That was before WHO adopted a best practices standard for naming diseases.
So racist
'Experts'
Media is now doing marketing for viruses... Is there any Canadian news org that is more than just a pharma commercial ?
What is the stigma? Monkeys won’t be offended
RIDICULOUS.
Im sure the monkeys aren't offended
⚠️ Will it be getting a new “vaccine” too? Or will they just continue administering the smallpox vaccine?
So analpox and assholitus were too edgey then?
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People who want the name changed are racist
Maybe just number all the viruses like the astronomers number all their discoveries?
They going to call it the don't go ass to mouth disease?
What? Learning from the ChinaVirus hurt feelings?
I call it NwordPox
WEF very Dangerous
Gay pox?
Not ipox then.
I humbly suggest...Corona Pox. Something comfortable for the Liberal crowd to warm up to.
The monkeys were being discriminated against? This has to stop. MonkeyLivesMatter
I’m sure that the monkey lobby will be pleased.
Phague Plague?
Why change the name of monkeypox? Does monkeypox refer to a black person illness or disease, in that case why not change monkeypox's name to npox?
I grew up in a very racist part of the country and never once heard monkey used as a slur
What about Phague Plague?
That dissapeared from the news s soon as it found out to be primarily a gay disease
Monkey's got offended?
Because the WHO is racist
🤡🤡🤡
Because of woke crackheads !!
Mpox sounds like a Korean pop band.
When will Chicken Pox get the respect it deserves?
But 'The Black Death' continues to fly under the radar?
The WHO needs to be defunded.
Lol ya please tell us what species of monkey is being insulted here
Trenbolone ACETATE
So, we are changing that name because it can hurt some feelings. What a wonderful world we are in, right...
Pathetic!
Are we going to change chickenpox to cpox?
Because woke libs are butthurt
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