{"id":39042,"date":"2022-11-29T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=39042"},"modified":"2022-11-29T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:22:09","slug":"monkeypox-is-renamed-mpox-by-the-who-after-claims-decades-old-term-was-racist-and-discriminatory-towards-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/29\/monkeypox-is-renamed-mpox-by-the-who-after-claims-decades-old-term-was-racist-and-discriminatory-towards-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeypox is renamed &#8216;mpox&#8217; by the WHO after claims decades-old term was &#8216;racist and discriminatory towards Africa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35911\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/monkeypox3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"mol-cf665890-6f19-11ed-8d15-e741050a3507\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/monkeypox\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monkeypox<\/a> will be renamed &#8216;mpox&#8217;, health chiefs confirmed today after a push to find a &#8216;non-discriminatory&#8217; term.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11477077\/Monkeypox-renamed-mpox-claims-decades-old-term-racist-discriminatory.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Monkeypox will be renamed &#8216;mpox&#8217;, health chiefs confirmed today after a push to find a &#8216;non-discriminatory&#8217; term.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-monkey-pox"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/who.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39043,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions\/39043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}