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World Health Body Wants New Name for ‘Monkeypox’ Virus, Calling it ‘Discriminatory and Stigmatizing’

By Trice Edney Newswire The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced plans to find a new name for the viral disease informally known as ‘monkeypox’ which, says the world body, is “discriminatory and stigmatizing.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a briefing on the matter, said the virus is no longer behaving as it did […]

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