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World Health Organization decides: Monkeypox should be given a new name

2022-11-28T15:45:35.439Z


World Health Organization decides: Monkeypox should be given a new name Created: 11/28/2022, 4:29 p.m WHO headquarters in Geneva (symbolic image). © IMAGO/Vincent Isore As if the coronavirus wasn't enough, monkeypox was added to the mix. According to the WHO, these should now be given a new name. Geneva – The corona virus has had the world under its spell since 2020 and: As can be seen from th


World Health Organization decides: Monkeypox should be given a new name

Created: 11/28/2022, 4:29 p.m

WHO headquarters in Geneva (symbolic image).

© IMAGO/Vincent Isore

As if the coronavirus wasn't enough, monkeypox was added to the mix.

According to the WHO, these should now be given a new name.

Geneva – The corona virus has had the world under its spell since 2020 and: As can be seen from the recent riots in China, among other things, the virus continues to play an enormous role.

The next shock came not long after the corona virus: monkeypox.

Exactly these are now to be given a new name.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is now using the term "Mpox" instead of "Monkeypox", as announced on Monday in Geneva.

Both names would stand side by side for a year before only Mpox would be used.

The new name was chosen because it is easy to pronounce and use in other languages.

In addition, he is no longer associated with the animal.

"Mpox" instead of monkeypox: virus should have a new name

The virus itself is also to be given a new name.

An independent expert council (ICTV) is responsible for this, which has not yet made a decision.

As early as August, the names subgroup I and subgroup II were introduced for the two virus subgroups, which were named after African regions.

The disease was called monkeypox only because it was first discovered in monkeys in 1958.

But monkeys have nothing to do with the outbreaks this year.

Rather, people become infected through close physical contact with other people.

Nevertheless, monkeys were attacked in Brazil this year because people blamed them for the outbreaks.

New name for monkeypox: Viruses should no longer be named after animals

In general, according to WHO specifications, references to specific countries, regions or animals should be avoided in names for diseases.

The reason for this is probably hostility towards animals in the case of monkeypox.

However, there were also numerous attacks on people of Asian descent during the corona pandemic.

The name should also be easy to pronounce.

Even after the outbreak of the then new type of corona virus in Wuhan in China, the WHO worked flat out on a neutral name to prevent names such as China virus or Wuhan virus from gaining acceptance.

The disease caused by the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus is called Covid-19, an abbreviation of coronavirus disease.

The 19 shows that the disease first emerged in 2019.

(dpa)

Source: merkur

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