Health & Fitness
Health Agencies Renaming 'Monkeypox' As 'Mpox' To Help Fight Stigma
As cases in the current outbreak swelled earlier this year, the WHO began the process of renaming the disease and its virus variants.
The Biden administration plans to officially switch how it refers to the disease once dubbed "monkeypox" to use the new name "mpox" instead, adopting a long-awaited renaming recommendation announced earlier on Monday by the World Health Organization.
As cases in the current outbreak swelled earlier this year, the WHO began the process of renaming the disease and its virus variants. Multiple advocates and countries had raised concerns over racist and stigmatizing use of the older name, which was first given to the disease after a 1958 outbreak among Danish laboratory monkeys.
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