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Monkey pox: why the name of this disease should be changed

2022-06-26T14:49:26.827Z


Stigmatizing and scientifically questionable since primates are not the cause of this pathology, doctors are asking for a cha


Earlier this month, Yazdan Yazdanpanah spoke to his peers at the World Health Organization (WHO), where he was moderating a meeting on monkeypox.

"You have to change your name," pleaded the professor of medicine, head of the ANRS, the public agency for research in emerging infectious diseases.

“For the patient, it is extremely stigmatizing and difficult to live with,” he confides to us, he who took care of it at the Parisian Bichat hospital where he practices.

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Source: leparis

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