Africa poised to declare continentwide emergency alarm for monkey pox outbreak

How serious is this?

Of course the Marxist ideologues at the AAAS insist on calling the monkey pox mpox! According to Wikipedia, the virus is still called monkey pox.

"The name monkeypox was originally coined because the disease was first identified in laboratory monkeys. ... It was also criticized because the name reinforced stigma about African countries as a source of disease." (Wikipedia).

"... because of the rapid spread of mpox across 16 African countries. ..."

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