The world health organization has invited the public to find new names for Monkeypox, calling for help to produce less stigmatizing appointment for diseases that spread rapidly in the midst of concerns about the name. Experts warn their names to be able to stigmatize primates, but those who do not play a small role in their spread, and to the African continent which is often associated with animals.
New in Brazil, for example, there are cases reported by people who attack the monkey due to fear of disease. Monkeypox humans are given his name before the best practice at this time in naming the disease, “Fadela Chaib a spokesman told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. “We really want to find a name that does not stigmatize,” he added. Consultation is now open to everyone through a special website.
“It is very important we find a new name for Monkeypox because this is the best practice not to create violations of ethnic groups, regions, countries, animals, etc.,” Chaib said. Monkeypox accepted his name because this virus was originally identified in a monkey stored for research in Denmark in 1958, but this disease was found in a number of animals, and most often in rodents.
This disease was first discovered in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the spread between humans since then limited to certain Western and Central African countries in which they are endemic. But in May, cases of this disease, which caused fever, muscular pain and skin lesions such as large boils, began to spread quickly throughout the world, especially among men who have sex with men.
Around the world, more than 31,000 cases have been confirmed since the beginning of the year, and 12 people have died, according to WHO, which has set a global health emergency outbreak. The recent global spread is due to the transmission of close contact between humans, according to WHO.