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The World Health Organization will change the name of the monkeypox disease over concerns of offensive connotations.

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LONDON: The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced it was holding an open forum to rename the monkeypox disease after ...

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Monkeypox was first named in 1958 when research monkeys in Denmark were observed to have a “pox-like” disease.