• TWeaK
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    3 months ago

    Monkeypox. I had to look it up, apparently they changed the name of the disease (presumably because of racists) but the virus itself is still called monkeypox.

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        3 months ago

        Tbf it’s wikipedia, but the first line of the 2nd paragraph says:

        The disease is caused by the monkeypox virus

        Edit: wait lol all your links say that, and one of your links is the same wiki page. But yeah, that’s exactly what I said: the disease is now called mpox, but the virus is still referred to as the monkeypox virus.

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          3 months ago

          You’re not wrong, but tbf like I said, it is referred to as that for historical purposes. We are moving away from the older name but it takes time. For example, AIDS was called GRID at one point. Not now. Nobody does that.