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In 2022, the name ‘monkeypox’ was rejected as inapt. Now the U.S. is reviving it
By Gabrielle Emanuel In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name “monkeypox” for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name “monkeypox” was seen as racist and stigmatizing language. To replace it, World Health Organization (WHO) officials decided to call the disease that causes painful lesions “mpox.” Now,…