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“What’s in a name?”: Using mpox as a case study to understand the importance of communication, advocacy, and information accuracy in disease nomenclature

2024-06-25

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Historically, many diseases have been named after the species or location of discovery, the discovering scientists, or the most impacted population. However, species-specific disease names often misrepresent the true reservoir; location-based disease names are frequently targeted with xenophobia; some of the discovering scientists have darker histories; and impacted populations have been stigmatized for this assoc...

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Literature Corpus work: c0dabe11-0db4-5568-a6b7-12aa8cce5e86
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.24.24309420

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