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fromArs Technica
2 days ago

In 2022, the world axed a disease name seen as racist. US just switched back.

WHO renamed the disease monkeypox to mpox to reduce racist and stigmatizing language, while the virus name remains unchanged and some agencies reverted usage.
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

In 2022, the name 'monkeypox' was rejected as inapt. Now the U.S. is reviving it

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist and stigmatizing language. To replace it, World Health Organization (WHO) officials decided to call the disease that causes painful lesions "mpox." Now, the U.S. is reverting to the old term "monkeypox."
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