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Monkeypox: WHO give virus variants new names
Published on: 2022-08-15
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus that are currently in circulation. This is to avoid causing any cultural or social offence, the WHO said in a statement.
 

The global health agency, World Health Organisation organisation (WHO), named Monkeypox variants as Clades I, IIa and IIb. Experts in pox virology, evolutionary biology and representatives of research institutes from across the globe reviewed the phylogeny and nomenclature of known and new monkeypox virus variants or clades.


The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced new names to avoid causing any cultural or social offence.


According to WHO, "Consensus was reached to now refer to the former Congo Basin (Central African) clade as Clade one (I) and the former West African clade as Clade two (II). Additionally, it was agreed that the Clade II consists of two subclades."


世卫组织宣布对猴痘病毒分支重新命名


世界卫生组织12日宣布对猴痘病毒分支重新命名,新名称将由罗马数字和小写英文字母组成。
 

世卫组织在一份声明中说,由该组织召集的一个全球专家小组已就猴痘病毒分支的新名称达成一致。新名称将使用罗马数字表示病毒分支,用小写字母表示亚分支。例如,专家们现在将此前刚果盆地分支称为分支I,将此前西非分支称为分支II。分支II又包括两个亚分支,即IIa和IIb,其中IIb是2022年猴痘疫情中主要传播的一组病毒变种。
 

世卫组织表示,还将继续开展猴痘疾病和病毒的命名工作,同时各分支的新名称立即生效。目前在命名新识别的病毒及其分支、相关疾病时的惯例是,应避免因这些名称对任何文化、社会、国家、区域、专业或民族群体等造成伤害,并尽量减少此类命名对贸易、旅行、旅游或动物福利的负面影响。

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