{"id":1517438,"date":"2022-06-15T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517438"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:34:46","slug":"world-health-organization-will-rename-monkeypox-citing-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-health-organization-will-rename-monkeypox-citing-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization Will Rename Monkeypox, Citing Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworld-health-organization-will-rename-monkeypox-citing-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517438&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The World Health Organization announced that officials are working to rename the monkeypox virus after a group of scientists called the moniker &#8220;discriminatory and stigmatizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WHO is also working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus, its clades, and the disease it causes,&#8221; organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a Tuesday media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-covid-19-media-briefing--14-june-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">briefing<\/a>. He said WHO will announce the new name &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that health officials have declared a disease name discriminatory. Soon after WHO in early 2020 named the novel coronavirus &#8220;COVID-19,&#8221; journalists wrote that calling the disease, which originated in China, &#8220;the Wuhan virus&#8221; or &#8220;the China virus&#8221; is racist. The Chinese Communist government at the same time launched a propaganda campaign to deny that the disease originated in China, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/journalists-argue-use-of-term-wuhan-virus-is-racist-as-china-seeks-to-obfuscate-on-origins-of-epidemic\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, WHO <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-never-reported-existence-of-coronavirus-to-world-health-organization\/\">covered up<\/a> China&#8217;s hesitation to report on the COVID-19&#8217;s dangers, then falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO\/status\/1217043229427761152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that human-to-human transmission was unconfirmed. WHO officials, including Tedros, publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/officials-vented-about-chinas-secrecy-in-private-even-as-who-praised-regime-publicly\/\">praised<\/a>\u00a0China&#8217;s transparency as the regime withheld information.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after a group of almost 30 scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/virological.org\/t\/urgent-need-for-a-non-discriminatory-and-non-stigmatizing-nomenclature-for-monkeypox-virus\/853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that\u00a0changing the virus&#8217;s name is an &#8220;urgent need,&#8221; arguing that &#8220;continued reference to and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monkeypox got its name when scientists observed the pox-like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disease<\/a> in an African monkey colony. The first human case was reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The groups of organisms that cause monkeypox, also known as clades, are named for the regions of Africa\u2014West African and Central African\/Congo Basin\u2014in which scientists first found them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization announced that officials are working to rename the monkeypox virus after a group of scientists called the moniker &#8220;discriminatory and stigmatizing.&#8221; &#8220;WHO is also working with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":929,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}