"The World Health Organization has announced that it will rename the monkeypox virus to combat racism and stigma over concerns that Africans may feel offended.
That’ll stop the virus!
Despite being endemic in Africa for decades, calling the virus ‘monkeypox’ violates the WHO’s guidelines that disavow the use of geographic regions or animals.
The change is being made after more than 30 international scientists, most of them from Africa, complained that calling it ‘monkeypox’ was discriminatory and stigmatizing.
- They want the virus to be renamed ‘hMPXV’ – which would represent a “non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing classification.”..."
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