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Old 24-07-2022, 20:55   #43
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Re: MonkeyPox

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
This particular outbreak is said to have started in Central & West Africa.

I suspect that this will be a major reason why they want to change the name. Didn't they do something similar with one particular strain of the coronavirus?
They did, it was the Irish strain, they called it the potato virus. That was deemed racist so they gave it the correct scientific name of “spudulika.paddi.1b”
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