The World Health Organization said numerous individuals and countries asked the organization “to propose a way forward to change the name.”
The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. Colorized monkeypox particles are seen within an infected cell in a Maryland laboratory.To date, there have been more than 80,000 cases identified in dozens of countries that had not previously reported the smallpox-related disease.
In Africa, the disease mainly affects people in contact with infected animals such as rodents and squirrels. The majority of monkeypox-related deaths have been in Africa, where there have been
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