Monkeypox will be renamed said the World Health Organization, in light of concerns from a group of scientists about stigma and racism surrounding the virus that has infected over 1,600 people in more than two dozen countries.

“WHO is also working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced at a press briefing Tuesday.

He said the WHO will make announcements about the new names as soon as possible.

More than 30 international scientists said last week that the monkeypox label is discriminatory and stigmatizing, and there’s an “urgent” need to rename it. The name doesn’t fit with WHO guidelines to avoid geographic regions and animal names, a spokesperson said.

A similar controversy that erupted when the WHO moved quickly to rename SARS-CoV-2 after people around the world referred to it as the China or Wuhan virus in the absence of an official designation.

The actual animal source of monkeypox, which has been found in a wide variety of mammals, remains unknown.

The WHO is consulting experts in orthopoxviruses—the family to which monkeypox belongs—on more appropriate names, a spokesperson said.