FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 193 - Caught on Camera

WHO to use ‘mpox’ instead of monkeypox to avoid stigma, racism

Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out, the UN health agency says.

Al Jazeera · Nov 28, 2022

Why babies may be eating too much sugar

What can parents do about it?

Salon · Nov 28, 2022

Monkeypox renamed mpox over racism concerns

The World Health Organization is renaming monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 28, 2022

Monkeypox to be renamed due to 'racism and stigmatising language'

The term will be phased out

Wales Online · Nov 28, 2022

Monkeypox renamed ‘because of racism’

The World Health Organisation said its preferred term for the disease will be ‘mpox’ after reports of racism and stigmatising language.

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2022

Fauci says the U.S. is ‘certainly’ still facing a COVID pandemic

“The idea that forget it, this is over—it isn’t,” the White House’s chief medical adviser said.

Fortune · Nov 28, 2022

WHO renames monkeypox as mpox, citing racism concerns

The World Health Organization is renaming monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2022

Polio is back in Indonesia, sparking vaccination campaign

Indonesia has begun vaccinating children for the polio virus in the country's conservative province after four were infected with the highly contagious disease that was declared eradicated less than a decade ago

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2022

Surgeons work by flashlight as Ukraine power grid battered

Devastating Russian strikes in Ukraine have cut off power to many hospitals

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2022

Poorer women in UK have sixth-highest cancer death rates in Europe, WHO finds

Those from deprived backgrounds are particularly at risk of dying from cancer of the lungs, liver, bladder and oesophagus

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2022