Name search: Fear of Monkeypox: Attacks on Monkeys in Brazil – Entertainment

With the new variant of the 2009 influenza virus, it was pigs, although the virus can also infect humans and be transmitted from person to person. When it comes to the coronavirus, then US President Donald Trump didn’t just talk about “Wuhan” or the “China virus” to blame Beijing for its spread. He explicitly demanded that China be held accountable.

Since 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed guidelines to prevent disease names from having a negative impact on trade, travel, tourism, or animal welfare, or may inflame cultural, social, regional or ethnic groups.

But the natural hosts are rodents – not monkeys

The monkeypox virus is so named because it was first discovered in monkeys in Denmark in the 1950s. It can also be called a Danish virus, like Marburg virus, so named because it was identified in Hesse in the 1960s. In the case of monkeypox, it is now clear that monkeys – like humans – can become infected. But the natural hosts are rodents. In the recent spread, the virus is transmitted through close human-to-human contact and has nothing to do with monkeys.

A committee of hundreds of virologists (ICTV) is responsible for identifying the virus. They also called the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus. The names of diseases are determined by the World Health Organization. She named the disease Covid-19 caused by the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

Maybe he could protect one of the monkeys if the name was changed. But monkeys were also attacked during the yellow fever outbreak in Brazil.

Stigmatization and discrimination of people with a disease is another matter entirely. Immunodeficiency was first discovered in gay men in the USA in the 1980s initially with the network name – Gay-Associated Immunodeficiency. Although it has long been known that the disease is by no means restricted to gay men, the name change to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) initially had little effect. For many years, people have stayed away from homosexuals for fear of infection.