• TWeaK
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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.