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WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« on: June 15, 2022, 09:18:31 am »
WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’

By David Propper   
June 14, 2022

The World Health Organization will rename the increasingly spreading monkeypox virus after a group of scientists claimed the name could be “stigmatizing.”

“WHO is also working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced at a press briefing Tuesday.

“We will make announcements about the new names as soon as possible.”

Dropping the monkeypox label follows a letter from a group of 30 international scientists that wrote last week the “urgent need” to switch the name.

“Given the increasingly rapid communication of, and attention to, the international human MPXV outbreak, it is important to consider an appropriate, non-discriminatory, and non-stigmatizing nomenclature and classification of MPXV clades,” part of the letter states.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/who-renaming-monkeypox-after-experts-say-name-could-be-stigmatizing/
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2022, 09:18:54 am »
:facepalm2:

To whom is the name "monkeypox" stigmatizing?  Monkeys?
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2022, 10:57:28 am »
I thought this was the Bee.
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2022, 10:59:47 am »
A Pox upon the WHO.....
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2022, 11:07:04 am »
Gaypox, Buttpox, Penispox, Not that there is anything wrong with that pox?
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2022, 11:38:53 am »
Who gave them the right?
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2022, 11:43:27 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on June 15, 2022, 11:38:53 am
Who gave them the right?

The same WHO that allowed COVID-19 to expand past China's borders.  That's a lot of power in my book.
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2022, 11:43:35 am »
We're not the ones thinking "black people" every time someone mentions a monkey. It's the uber woke.
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2022, 12:15:58 pm »
Chicken's want a new name too.  Chickenpox is very traumatic for them and yellow belly woke people.
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2022, 12:43:09 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on June 15, 2022, 11:43:35 am
We're not the ones thinking "black people" every time someone mentions a monkey. It's the uber woke.

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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2022, 12:50:00 pm »
Monkeypox was given that name because it was first observed and isolated in laboratory monkeys. How is that anything racial? And what benefit would a name change offer that could counter-balance the confusion of making ~65 years of research anachronistic?
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2022, 02:05:14 pm »
Quote from: PeteS in CA on June 15, 2022, 12:50:00 pm
Monkeypox was given that name because it was first observed and isolated in laboratory monkeys. How is that anything racial?
They're just going to have to change the name of the little critters, then.

Call me Simia.
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« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2022, 02:18:21 pm »
Whatever the name there will be stigma because it's already known how human to human transmission occurs..
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #13 on: June 15, 2022, 02:22:14 pm »
Does "Cowpox" stigmatize fat chicks?
Does "Smallpox" stigmatize dwarfs?
Does "Chickenpox" stigmatize Frank Perdue?
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2022, 10:45:26 pm »
"The @WHO is changing the name of “Monkeypox” to “combat racism and stigma”  (Video)


https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1537226102958985216
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Re: WHO to rename monkeypox after scientists complain label ‘stigmatizing’
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2022, 06:22:35 pm »
CDC guidance on monkey pox sex (I kid you not):

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/sexualhealth/social.html
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« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2022, 07:11:35 pm »
The bee has been outdone by the CDC. 
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« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2022, 08:57:30 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 16, 2022, 07:11:35 pm
The bee has been outdone by the CDC.

We knew it would only be a matter of time....

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