The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Saturday that it renamed variants of the virus monkeypox as it looks to counter concerns about the original naming conventions.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNewly identified viruses, related diseases & virus variants are given names to avoid causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups, & minimize the negative impact on trade, travel, tourism, or animal welfare,\u201d the WHO said in\u00a0its announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New names:\u00a0<\/strong>The Congo Basin and West African variants were reclassified as Clade I and Clade II, the latter of which has two subclades. The new names go into effect immediately.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A global expert group decided on the new naming convention \u201cas part of ongoing efforts to align the names of the monkeypox disease, virus, and variants\u2014or clades\u2014with current best practices.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Going further:\u00a0<\/strong>The WHO is\u00a0also workshopping<\/a>\u00a0new names for the monkeypox virus as a whole, including the disease it causes,\u00a0after outcry<\/a>\u00a0over potential stigmatization. The WHO\u00a0cautioned early<\/a>\u00a0in the COVID-19 pandemic against referring to the virus as the \u201cChina virus\u201d or the \u201cWuhan virus\u201d due to potential discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Health Organization (WHO) announced...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51463,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51462\/revisions\/51463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}