Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus.
Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus.
Are these people seriously with their naming of diseases?
Turns out, Alaskapox was the less bad name…
MMMPox
Goddammit now I’ve got that Hanson song in my head. I deserve it.
MMMPox!
indiscernible screaming
MMMPox.
cries of agony
Yeah, yeah!
MMMPox ba duba dop Ba du pox ba duba dop Ba du pox ba duba dop Ba du.
The next pandemic is going to have a dance to go with the pop song
Can’t wait die on the dance floor.
Just kidding, it’ll be alone in my bathroom.
Is mpox the same thing as monkeypox but we stopped calling it that? Why?
Maybe we should just stop naming poxes.
Oh! I forgot, but they changed monkeypox to mpox.
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease Officially, it is so the name is the same in different languages and to remove zoological references.
Unofficially, monkeypox also had some racist undertones and seemed to be slowing people getting treatment. (That is not cited in the link above, but is in other articles.)
Right? Obvious name would be Alpox