Outcry over racist Monkeypox coverage
The Foreign Press Association, Africa has registered its displeasure against media outlets using images of black people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak in North America and the United Kingdom. By N Ahmad At the height of COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had to advise against naming pathogens for places to “minimize unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people.” Even though by February 11, 2020, the WHO had named the then fast-spreading virus as SARS-CoV-2 and the illness it caused as COVID-19, some politicians, including former US president Do...