A Monkeypox outbreak occurred as recently as 2022.
That this is entirely cultural is obvious from the facts of it. Why is “monkey” considered offensive?
We’re going to keep calling it Monkeypox, here at Gript, regardless of what the WHO decides. Not because we want to stigmatise anybody, but because this, like so much of the world at the moment, is unutterably stupid.
69 cases in Ireland
‘Isolation and infection control’
Controversial Chinese lab involved in making synthetic monkeypox
Ireland sets up special incidence management team
Same disease family as smallpox.