"Africa Is Not a Disease"... Banak's African Swine Fever Name Change Campaign

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Seong Do-hyeon = The Cyber Diplomatic Delegation Vank (led by Park Ki-tae) announced on the 30th that it will launch a campaign to change the name of African Swine Fever (ASF) to correct stereotypes and prejudices inherent in disease names as part of its 'Introducing Africa Correctly' project. Vank recently launched the 'Introducing Africa Correctly' project to rectify the long-standing negative image of the African continent associated with disease, poverty, and conflict, and to help people understand Africa from a balanced perspective. The purpose of this campaign is to reflect on and correct the unconscious discrimination embedded in linguistic expressions that portray Africa as a symbol of disease. The campaign stems from the awareness that the disease name 'African Swine Fever' can stigmatize a specific continent by connecting it with disease. ASF, first reported in Kenya in 1921, was named after the warthog commonly found in African plains, from ...