In our May 24 opinion article, when monkeypox appeared in Europe, we wrote that "we are eagerly waiting for the progressive West to forbid calling monkeypox monkeypox".

And why? Let's quote ourselves:

"Only because it's politically incorrect, exclusionary, and if all that wasn't enough, it's even dehumanizing. But mostly because "this small pox nowadays mostly attacks gay and bisexual men, of course, like GRID at the time, excuse me, AIDS, only not as deadly.

If, contrary to its usual habits, the monkeypox spreads lightning fast in the gay communities of the modern world, we can bet on it with big bets that it will say goodbye to its original name just as quickly."

And voila! We didn't even have to wait a month, and we can already read in the columns of Sky News that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, announced on Tuesday that the World Health Organization is working on renaming the virus, because while the number of cases worldwide is increasing and more and more people are encountering the disease, its according to several researchers, its name is "stigmatizing and racist".

"WHO is working with partners and experts from around the world to change the name of the monkeypox virus and its clones and the diseases they cause"

Gebrejeszusz said on Tuesday, then added that they will make an announcement about their decision as soon as possible.

The immediate antecedent of the decision is that a week ago, more than 30 international scientists signed a document in which they declared that they feel the urgent need to change the name, because they believe that in its current form it creates an exclusionary and stigmatizing effect.

"More and more narratives are appearing in the media and in many academic circles that try to link the current global epidemic to Africa, West Africa or Nigeria"

- reads the document, referring to the fact that on its website the WHO distinguishes between the West African clade and the Congo basin (central African) clade as two strains of the virus. (Interestingly, this fact has not bothered anyone so far, even though the virus was first detected in 1958, and in 1970 it infected people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - ed.)

According to the document, a new classification of the virus is needed to "minimize unnecessary negative impacts on nations, geographic regions, the economic environment and people, which takes into account the evolution and spread of the virus."

The researchers also recommend that Western media stop using images of African people showing smallpox lesions in their coverage of outbreaks in Europe. (What fake machines! In the last half a hundred years, no researcher was bothered by the presentation of smallpox on African people, nor could it be bothered after it was barely introduced to the Western world, so it could not really be presented on a white person. However, the behavior of the virus has changed, and now specifically the spreads in homosexual communities of the modern world - ed.)

Due to the geographical spread, coordinated response measures may be necessary, so an extraordinary committee meeting will be held next week. More than 1,600 cases of monkeypox have been detected in 39 countries, and another 1,500 suspected cases have been detected in recent months. 72 people have lost their lives in the epidemic so far.

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