Monkeypox: WHO considers renaming virus to avoid discrimination - Times Now

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s Director-General said the organisation is “working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of the monkeypox virus, its clades and the disease it causes”. An announcement on the new name of mon…

The move comes after about 30 scientists from 11 countries called for a need to cut discriminatory language used to differentiate the monkeypox virus in a report released last week. (Representative i… [+4 chars]

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