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Re:MPX? Mpox? The struggle to replace ‘monkeypox’ with a nam... by h2odragon on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:11AM (#32618107)
Will we be renaming cowpox too? That's going to make history more fun, "then it was discovered that infection with the disease formerly known as cowpox could confer immunity to the disease formerly known as smallpox in the species formerly known as humans..."
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