Tuesday, August 16, 2022

2 monkeypox variants will no longer be named after regions, for ethical reasons

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesushe, the head of the World Health Organization, speaks during a media conference at an EU Africa summit in Brussels on Feb. 18, 2022.

Subsequent variants of monkeypox will be named using Roman numerals for the clade, and lowercase letters for the subclade.

(Image credit: Johanna Geron/AP)

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