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Misinformation with monkey pox makes its way back to the internet

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SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Monkeypox symptoms include rash, fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, and fatigue. Monkeypox would have been a “vaccine-induced” disease, or Spanish authorities

Misinformation with monkey pox makes its way back to the internet
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SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Monkeypox symptoms include rash, fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, and fatigue.

Monkeypox would have been a “vaccine-induced” disease, or Spanish authorities were aware of the problem before it arose: as with the covid-19 pandemic, rumors and conspiracies sprouted online.

Monkeypox and AstraZeneca vaccine

Posts shared thousands of times on social media since mid-May suggest that monkeypox is related to the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine, as its components contain a chimpanzee adenovirus. But the statement is fake.

This adenovirus has been genetically modified so that it cannot replicate in the human body, and also belongs to a different family from the virus that causes monkeypox.

Experts questioned by AFP insist that the two pathogens are not related.

Monkey flower (“monkey flower”) owes its name to its first detection in macaques in 1958.

It is called ‘monkey pox’ because it has been found to cause disease in monkeys, but monkeys are not the reservoir for the disease. Most likely, the reservoirs in Africa, the main continent of this virus, are rodents,” Professor Flávio Guimarães Da Fonseca, president of the Brazilian Virology Society, told AFP.

“So it’s clear that the adenovirus came from chimpanzees and that smallpox was called ‘monkey pox’ is completely unrelated,” he said.

Adenovirus is used in the vaccine as a vector, i.e. a vehicle to carry genetic instructions into vaccinated cells, which can then generate its own immune response against covid.

As with the rest of the so-called “viral vector” vaccines, the adenovirus has been modified so that it does not contaminate the body of the person being vaccinated.

Smallpox and Spain

A message seen by hundreds of thousands of users on Telegram left wondering why the Spanish government “received” two million doses of smallpox vaccine in 2019.

According to these theories, these vaccines would show that authorities already knew that these cases of monkeypox would occur.

Experts confirm that this disease has been eradicated but its virus is not yet gone, so it is normal for a country like Spain to have strategic vaccine reserves.

Doctor Jaime Jesús Pérez, member of the Spanish Association for Vaccination Science (AEV), told AFP: safety laboratories ».

Smallpox has been ignored since 1979, thanks to vaccination. Since 1984, the general population has not been vaccinated.

Diagnosis

Other posts on social networks have ironiced about how “fast” PCR tests were supposedly developed to detect monkeypox virus, and warned of “false positive” results like covid.

The World Health Organization (WHO) explains that the most convenient way to diagnose the disease, in addition to the clinic, is a PCR test. This has been the case for years, long before the covid-19 pandemic.

The PCR test “relies solely on the development of molecules that will recognize the genetic sequence of this microorganism,” Álvaro Fajardo, doctor of Biological Sciences and researcher in the Research Center Molecular Virology Laboratory (LVM), told AFP Factual. nuclear

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Source: El Nacional

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