Stacker investigated how "monkeypox" and other disease names have caused controversy, using a collection of news, scientific, and government sources. - Canva Stacker investigated how "monkeypox" and ...

Popular disease names like “swine flu” and “Spanish Flu” are too “stigmatizing,” according to the World Health Organization, and in the future all disease names should be carefully designed not to ...

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Ayik is an advocate for people living with rare diseases. Recently, the smoldering embers of conflict in my family’s rare disease community have burst into flames over the use of an eponym: ...

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The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. Smith Collection/Gado ...

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The disease formerly known as monkeypox has a new name: "mpox." It's not much of a depature, but it's less stigmatizing, according to advocates who have been calling for a change of name. The disease ...

A group of global experts convened by WHO has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants, as part of ongoing efforts to align the names of the monkeypox disease, virus and variants—or ...

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Naming diseases is a complicated business. To be useful, a name needs to be unique, descriptive, and memorable so it can be referenced easily, especially when medical situations become urgent. Though ...