Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus

• Christian Happi ,

  * E-mail: happic@run.edu.ng (CH); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

  Affiliations African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University; Ede, Osun State, Nigeria, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

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• Ifedayo Adetifa,

  Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Placide Mbala,

  Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Richard Njouom,

  Affiliation Virology Unit, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Emmanuel Nakoune,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Anise Happi,

  Affiliation African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University; Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

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• Nnaemeka Ndodo,

  Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Oyeronke Ayansola,

  Affiliation Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Gerald Mboowa,

  Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Trevor Bedford,

  Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Richard A. Neher,

  Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Cornelius Roemer,

  Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Emma Hodcroft,

  Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Geneva Center of Emerging Viral Diseases, HUG, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Houriiyah Tegally,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Áine O’Toole,

  Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Andrew Rambaut,

  Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Oliver Pybus,

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

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• Moritz U. G. Kraemer,

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Eduan Wilkinson,

  Affiliation Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Joana Isidro,

  Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal

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• Vítor Borges,

  Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal

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• Miguel Pinto,

  Affiliation Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal

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• João Paulo Gomes,

  Affiliations Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Lucas Freitas,

  Affiliation GISAID at Laboratorio de vírus respiratórios-IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Paola C. Resende,

  Affiliation GISAID at Laboratorio de vírus respiratórios-IOC/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Raphael T. C. Lee,

  Affiliation GISAID at Bioinformatics Institute and ID labs A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore

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• Sebastian Maurer-Stroh,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and YLL School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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• Cheryl Baxter,

  Affiliations Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6033-7655

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• Richard Lessells,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

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• Ahmed E. Ogwell,

  Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Yenew Kebede,

  Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Sofonias K. Tessema,

  Affiliation Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tulio de Oliveira

  * E-mail: happic@run.edu.ng (CH); tulio@sun.ac.za (TO)

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3027-5254

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