Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus.
Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus.
Is mpox the same thing as monkeypox but we stopped calling it that? Why?
Maybe we should just stop naming poxes.
Oh! I forgot, but they changed monkeypox to mpox.
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease Officially, it is so the name is the same in different languages and to remove zoological references.
Unofficially, monkeypox also had some racist undertones and seemed to be slowing people getting treatment. (That is not cited in the link above, but is in other articles.)