Monkeypox came from a lab where they were researching smallpox with monkeys.
Scientists created it. It did not come from nature.
They then used the "smallpox vaccine" (containing monkey DNA?) to inject Africans.
Hence monkeypox.
We need to keep the name because it "betrays" the origin.
Source:
Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox.
The moneypox comes from black people. Not the monkeys. So the Who had better add some inclusiveness. Go away with the gaypox.
Wrong.
Monkeypox came from a lab where they were researching smallpox with monkeys.
Scientists created it. It did not come from nature.
They then used the "smallpox vaccine" (containing monkey DNA?) to inject Africans.
Hence monkeypox.
We need to keep the name because it "betrays" the origin.
Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/about.html