WHO declared a global health emergency over the weekend,"We have a growing concern for the potentially devastating and stigmatising effects that the messaging around the monkeypox virus can have on... already vulnerable communities," New York City public health commissioner Ashwin Vasan said in a letter to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus dated Tuesday.
Dr Vasan referenced the"painful and racist history within which terminology like is rooted for communities of colour". "Continuing to use the term monkeypox to describe the current outbreak may reignite these traumatic feelings of racism and stigma - particularly for Black people and other people of colour, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and it is possible that they may avoid engaging in vital health care services because of it," Dr Vasan said.
straits_times It seems the 'excitement' always start in New York. Hint Hint. By the way, did African complain? Why nothing happen when Africa experience it?
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