HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Monkeypox may quickly get a brand new title.
The World Health Organization introduced Friday that it plans to rename the situation to get rid of any derogatory or racist connotations, a call in alignment with present finest practices for naming ailments.
“The naming of virus species is the responsibility of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which has a process underway for the name of the monkeypox virus,” WHO mentioned in an announcement.
The U.N. well being company made the choice after a gathering with scientists. WHO will maintain an open discussion board to think about new names not offensive to particular teams.
The company has already renamed two households (clades) of the illness, eradicating geographic space names together with Congo Basin and West Africa and changing them with monikers equivalent to Clade one and two or with Roman numerals I and II.
The intent is to “keep away from inflicting offense to any cultural, social, nationwide, regional, skilled, or ethnic teams, and reduce any unfavorable influence on commerce, journey, tourism or animal welfare,” WHO said.
According to the Associated Press, some other diseases still do carry names from geographic areas where they began or were first identified, including Japanese encephalitis, Marburg virus, Spanish influenza and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
More info:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extra on monkeypox.
SOURCE : WHO assertion, Aug. 12, 2022; Associated Press
