{"id":1754139,"date":"2022-11-28T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754139"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:39:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:39:47","slug":"the-monkeypox-virus-is-now-just-mpox-because-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-monkeypox-virus-is-now-just-mpox-because-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkeypox Virus Is Now Just \u2018MPox,\u2019 Because 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\">18<\/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%2Fthe-monkeypox-virus-is-now-just-mpox-because-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=1754139&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--><p>The World Health Organization on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that after nearly five months of deliberation, it has changed the name of the monkeypox virus. The new name is &#8220;mpox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists in June <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/world-health-organization-will-rename-monkeypox-citing-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0the word &#8220;monkeypox&#8221; is &#8220;discriminatory and stigmatizing,&#8221; leading WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to say the organization would rename the virus &#8220;as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as possible&#8221; took until Monday, when the WHO said it recommends the term &#8220;mpox&#8221; instead, claiming that using &#8220;monkeypox&#8221; led to &#8220;racist and stigmatizing language.&#8221; It also recommends a &#8220;transition period of one year&#8221; to phase out the word &#8220;monkeypox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration reportedly pressured the WHO behind closed doors to change the name, with <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/22\/who-monkeypox-mpox-rename-00070614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reporting<\/a> the White House worried that &#8220;the virus&#8217;s name was deepening stigma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the WHO has expressed left-wing views. Tedros, who formerly served as an Ethiopian cabinet minister for a communist political party, covered up for Communist China in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-never-reported-existence-of-coronavirus-to-world-health-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO is not alone in thinking the word &#8220;monkeypox&#8221; is discriminatory. The New York City Department of Health said the word may be &#8220;painful and racist&#8221; for &#8220;communities of color.&#8221; The department did not mention that the virus got its name because scientists first &#8220;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,&#8221; as the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization on Monday announced that after nearly five months of deliberation, it has changed the name of the monkeypox virus. The new name is &#8220;mpox.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post The Monkeypox Virus Is Now Just \u2018MPox,\u2019 Because Racism appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1754142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754139","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}