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2024-08-18 13:18:49 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 500C57C7EC98A40F6B896BE0DD5D70FF25214F89FDF203BDE816F3751B6E0EAD
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WHO recommended a new name due to widespread use of racist & stigmatizing language during the 2022 outbreak. The virus was named in 1970, before 2015 adoption of WHO best practices for naming new diseases. Review of all orthopoxvirus species names began before 2022. https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-HSE-FOS-15.1 https://ictv.global/
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