Following several meetings with international specialists, WHO will start adopting the new preferred name “mpox” to replace monkeypox. For a year, both names will be used interchangeably as “monkeypox” is phased out. Racist and stigmatizing language was noticed and reported to WHO when the monkeypox outbreak grew earlier this year. These incidents occurred online, in other contexts, and in some communities. A number of people … Continue reading WHO suggests a new name for the monkeypox illness