Mpox is a viral disease, formerly called monkeypox before the WHO changed its name in 2022 because of complaints it was racist and stigmatizing. The zoonotic disease can be transmitted to humans ...
Dr Kaseya said the Africa CDC had not seen any notable changes week-on-week over the past month in the DR Congo and warned that it was too early to say the mpox outbreak was under control.
The latest strain is a mutated version of clade I, a form of mpox spread by contact with infected animals that has been endemic in Congo for decades. A mutation is a change in an organism’s ...
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It was previously known as monkeypox, but was shortened by the WHO, as critics said the name plays into racist stereotypes ...
Dr Kaseya said the Africa CDC had not seen any notable changes week-on-week over the past month in the DR Congo and warned that it was too early to say the mpox outbreak was under control. With every ...
Mpox is a viral disease, formerly called monkeypox before the WHO changed its name in 2022 over complaints that it was racist and stigmatizing. The zoonotic disease can be transmitted to humans ...
as critics said the name plays into racist stereotypes and prematurely suggests that monkeys are the main carriers of the disease. There are two types of mpox, clade I and clade II. They are ...