6 ms·
WHO Declares Global Emergency over New Mpox Outbreak
- altruios 2y agonot paywalled: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-declares-mpox-global-public-health-emergency-second-time-two-years-2024-08-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
- bnchrch 2y agohttps://archive.ph/e3k4U https://archive.ph/e3k4U
- honestsci 2y ago[dead]
- Argonaut998 2y ago>formerly called monkeypox When, who and why did its name change?
- rolph 2y agofear of correlation to a racial slur
- Argonaut998 2y agoI suppose it was a strange choice of name in the first place.
- poulpy123 2y agoIt was identified in a monkeys originally, hence the name
- rescbr 2y agoOtherwise people will start killing monkeys indiscriminately.
- upon_drumhead 2y agoWHO did in 2022 https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/11/28/1139403803/who-renames-monkeypox-as-mpox-citing-racist-stigma https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/11/28/1139403...
- fuzzbazz 2y agoAccording to Wikipedia the virus is still called "monkeypox virus" and the disease "mpox disease". One reason for the change may have been to have different names for these different things.
- davidt84 2y ago*formerly Formally means the opposite, and I had to check the article to check what you meant.
- Argonaut998 2y agoAutocorrect…
- poulpy123 2y agoI remember it. The name was changed during the pandemic of 2022, because in the west it was mainly affecting the gay men and LGBT associations thought that having "monkey" in the name of a disease affecting mainly gay men was stigmatising and pushed for a name change, and the WHO accepted.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoRegarding transmission: > Until recently, it spread mainly through consumption of contaminated meat or close contact with infected animals and people. Most of the deaths have been in children, who in this region of Africa are already beset by malnutrition and infectious diseases like cholera, measles and polio. > Should the outbreak spread globally, children in developed countries are likely to be less vulnerable to severe illness, experts have said. > Last year, for the first time, scientists discovered sexual transmission of this version of mpox, with cases split about equally among young men and women. According to genetic analyses, sometime around September, the virus gained mutations that enabled it to spread more readily among people. It has done so partly through heterosexual prostitution.