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Why monkeypox may soon get a new name

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Monkeypox's clades, which are different branches of the virus' family tree, have been particularly controversial because they are named after African regions. Last year the WHO officially named COVID-19 variants after Greek letters to avoid stigmatizing the places where they were first detected.

Just days before the WHO announced it would change monkeypox's name, a group of 29 scientists wrote a letter saying there is an"urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature" for the virus.

Last year the WHO officially named COVID-19 variants after Greek letters to avoid stigmatizing the places where they were first detected. The virus was named after it was first discovered among monkeys in a Danish lab in 1958, but humans have mostly contracted the virus from rodents. "Monkeys are usually associated with the global south, especially Africa," he wrote in The Conversation.

 

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