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The World Health Organisation will rename monkeypox after “racism and stigmatising language” emerged following the latest outbreak.

Both monkeypox and mpox will be used by WHO over the next year as the term "monkeypox" is phased out,

The term will be phased out

The World Health Organisation said its preferred term for the disease will be ‘mpox’ after reports of racism and stigmatising language.

“The idea that forget it, this is over—it isn’t,” the White House’s chief medical adviser said.

The World Health Organization is renaming monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist

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