The World Health Organization Plans to Rename Monkeypox Because it is “Racist”

The World Health Organization has once again proven just how screwed up their priorities truly are.

WHO scientists are planning on renaming the disease monkeypox because they now feel that it is racist.

Over 30 scientists believe that there is an urgent need to change the name of the disease, which they claim is discriminatory and stigmatizing.

The mere fact that they even thought of this reveals that, if anyone is racist, it’s them…

World Health Organisation set to rename monkeypox after scientists claim name is racisthttps://t.co/G1kgUatpCt

— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 15, 2022

GBN broke the story:

The World Health Organisation is set to officially rename the monkeypox virus amid concerns that its current name is racist.

More than 30 scientists from across the world said earlier this month the monkeypox name is discriminatory and stigmatising, adding that there was an “urgent” need to rename it.

And now WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that WHO is working with partners on changing the name of monkeypox and its variants.

30 WHO scientists believe that the most “urgent” matter with monkeypox is that it should be renamed…

Dare I ask why we take anything that these people say seriously anymore?

WHO will rename monkeypox after scientists claim it's RACIST https://t.co/SJzVk1FHem

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) June 15, 2022

World Health Organization Will Rename Monkeypox Because Name Is ‘Discriminatory, Stigmatizing’ To Africa https://t.co/ENBdedQtiD pic.twitter.com/xf6jNECwwS

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) June 15, 2022

It seems the WHO are being pushed to focus their limited energy on *renaming* Monkeypox to the utterly unintelligible "hMPXV" because… maybe racism?!

I swear the pathogens are running the asylum at this point.https://t.co/XnPZPdYmJW

— Liv Boeree (@Liv_Boeree) June 14, 2022

The BBC has more on this “urgent” matter:

Continued reference to the virus as African is both inaccurate and discriminatory, they said.

Some 1,600 cases of the disease have been recorded globally in recent weeks.

While 72 deaths have been reported in countries where monkeypox was already endemic, none have been seen in the newly affected 32 countries, such as the UK.

At the latest count, as of 12 June, there were 452 confirmed cases in England, 12 in Scotland, 2 in Northern Ireland and 4 in Wales.

The World Health Organization says it will hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern – the highest alarm the UN agency can sound.

So, the WHO is about to hold an emergency meeting to determine if the current monkeypox outbreak should be classified as a public health emergency, yet the real focus is on the name of the disease being racist…

Got it.

The WHO is renaming monkeypox… because the liberals who saw the name are the real racists who equate black people to monkeys…

No one else was thinking that.

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) June 15, 2022

The word MONKEYPOX is not racist.

You THINKING it’s racist IS RACIST 🤷🏾‍♀️

— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) June 15, 2022

How racist do you have to be to think Monkeypox is racist?

What are they trying to say?

— Dr. Willie J. Montague (@WillieJMontague) June 14, 2022

https://twitter.com/Euripides18A/status/1537063711386374144?s=20&t=109muFNaCwrfHAakNnkOBw

Monkey Pox is called Monkey Pox because it first appeared in Monkeys. Did monkeys get the internet and complain about how the name is somehow racist? Please fill me in on how #monkeypox is MF racist!!?? Please help me understand how stupid you people are!@

— Joe Pags Pagliarulo (@JoeTalkShow) June 15, 2022

Racist monkeypox flagged for a rebrand – phew, thank you WHOhttps://t.co/8QhpB3OzFH

— Townhall Media (@TownhallMedia) June 15, 2022