The disease was first named in 1970, and the name change is an attempt to avoid stigma and discrimination.
Monkeypox was named in 1970, 12 years after scientists first discovered the disease in captive monkeys. In 2015, the WHO published. According to these best practices, “new disease names should be given with the aim to minimize unnecessary negative impact of names on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare, and avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.
. “In several meetings, public and private, a number of individuals and countries raised concerns and asked WHO to propose a way forward to change the name.”The organization also reached consensus to refer to the former Congo Basin clade as Clade one and the former West African clade as Clade two . It was also agreed upon that Clade II consists of two subclades, IIa and IIb.
“The issue of the use of the new name in different languages was extensively discussed. The preferred term mpox can be used in other languages,” WHO said. While it is not common to rename existing diseases, it does happen from time to time. Trisomy 21 is also called
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