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A man in Indonesia has tested positive for monkeypox, making him the country’s first confirmed case of the disease

Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human.

Poxy McPoxface and Mpox are among suggestions received so far as the World Health Organization seeks a "non-stigmatising" new name for monkeypox.

The recent monkeypox global outbreak, now declared by the World Health Organization as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), is sadly yet another reason for society to stigmatize and discriminate against the LGTBQ2SA+ community. This is in part because it has been suggested that monkeypox is a sexually…

Subsequent variants of monkeypox will be named using Roman numerals for the clade, and lowercase letters for the subclade.

"This is an example where most pets will not be at risk," World Health Organization official tells WashPost.

The World Health Organization says the variant changes will come into effect immediately, with scientists calling the old names "discriminatory and stigmatising".

Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds

In June, the UK Health Security Agency reported that poliovirus had been detected in sewage in north and east London between February and May 2022.