‘You’ve got TRUMP-22’: Move to rename monkeypox goes bananas

Goblin Pox and Poxy McPox are among the other suggestions submitted to the WHO
Monkeypox lesions

Poxy McPox, Bubbleup and TRUMP-22 are among the list of suggested new names for monkeypox, according to a WHO consultation. 

It has been more than two months since the WHO first announced it wanted to rename the virus, saying the current name was a misnomer given that primates were not the zoonotic source of the virus.