TNPSC Thervupettagam

Clade I and Clade II

August 18 , 2022 834 days 561 0
  • The World Health Organisation has announced new names for the variants of the monkeypox virus.
  • This step is taken in a bid to avoid causing any “cultural or social offence.”
  • The names of Monkeypox variants are Clades I, IIa and IIb.
  • The monkeypox virus was named upon its first discovery in 1958.

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