Scientists recently criticized the current name as 'discriminatory and stigmatizing.' They also say it's inaccurate to name versions of the virus after parts of Africa.
is poised to get a new name, the World Health Organization says, after scientists recently criticized the current name as"discriminatory and stigmatizing." The researchers say it's also inaccurate to name versions of the virus after parts of Africa.
Despite"growing evidence that the most likely scenario is that cross-continent, cryptic human transmission has been ongoing for longer than previously thought," the scientists said, a public narrative persists in suggesting the current outbreak is linked to Africa, West Africa or Nigeria. That builds on an existing stigma, they said.
The paper's authors include Ahmed Ogwell, deputy director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than a dozen infectious disease experts in the U.S. and Europe.
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