In 2022, the name 'monkeypox' was rejected as inapt. Now the U.S. is reviving it

In 2022, the name 'monkeypox' was rejected as inapt. Now the U.S. is reviving it In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist and stigmatizing language. To replace it, World Health Organization (WHO) officials decided to call the disease that causes painful lesions " ." Now, the U.S. is reverting to the old term "monkeypox." "The first question is: 'Why?' It doesn't make any sense," says , an...