The World Health Organization announced Tuesday that it will rename the monkeypox virus after a group of scientists voiced concerns that the name is “discriminatory and stigmatizing.”
The virus has infected more than 1,600 people in 39 countries so far this year, the WHO said, including 32 countries where the virus isn’t typically detected.
“The prevailing perception in the international media and scientific literature is that MPXV is endemic in people in some African countries. However, it is well established that nearly all MPXV outbreaks in Africa prior to the 2022have been the result of spillover from animals and humans and only rarely have there been reports of sustained human-to-human transmissions,” they wrote.
As one example, they noted, news outlets have used images of African patients to depict the pox lesions, although most stories about the current outbreak have focused on the global north. The Foreign Press Association of Africathe global media to stop using images of Black people to highlight the outbreak in Europe.
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