Popular disease names like “swine flu” and “Spanish Flu” are too “stigmatizing,” according to the World Health Organization, and in the future all disease names should be carefully designed not to ...

Upset woman feeling like a social outcast as she has been suffering from bullying and discrimination. She feels excluded, offended and hurt and is sitting alone in cafe. Disease names are confusing, ...

Ayik is an advocate for people living with rare diseases. Recently, the smoldering embers of conflict in my family’s rare disease community have burst into flames over the use of an eponym: ...

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. Smith Collection/Gado ...

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist ...

The Biden administration plans to officially switch how it refers to the disease once dubbed "monkeypox" to use the new name "mpox" instead, adopting a long-awaited renaming recommendation announced ...

The disease formerly known as monkeypox has a new name: "mpox." It's not much of a depature, but it's less stigmatizing, according to advocates who have been calling for a change of name. The disease ...

Coffman is a writer, actor, and multi-hyphenate creative. In 2022, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl and triggered a wildly violent chain of events: multiple organ failure, hemorrhaging, blood clots ...

A group of global experts convened by WHO has agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants, as part of ongoing efforts to align the names of the monkeypox disease, virus and variants—or ...

A northern red-backed vole, a species known to carry borealpox, scampers through a forested area of the Kenai Peninsula. (Photo by Colin Canturbury/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The viral, ...