# Should we start talking about Mpox (formerly called Monkeypox)?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [June 29, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-start-talking-about-mpox-formerly-called-monkeypox/967120 "2022-06-29T16:25:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-start-talking-about-mpox-formerly-called-monkeypox/967120/2 "2022-06-29T17:00:25Z")

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We have been.

> [@We've got Monkeypox!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-got-monkeypox/180552):
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> It’s official. The United States has [Monkeypox!](http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/national/08CND-POX.html) I hereby nominate Monkeypox as the funniest disease name ever. I demand that we make it a matter of national policy to immediate contract lemurpox and orangapox. Not to mention chimpanpox and platipox.

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