While the effects of the coronavirus epidemic have not yet completely ended, a new virus-related disease has been on the agenda in the world for the last few weeks; monkey flower. This disease, which has been seen in Central and West Africa for many years, has started to be seen in Europe and America in the last few weeks.
The panic atmosphere created by the pandemic also affected the monkeypox virus, and countless unfounded claims were made on the internet. Many unrealistic claims began to circulate on many platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, from the virus being revealed to create chaos as a ‘new game’ to the emergence of COVID-19 vaccines. Let’s examine the truth of these claims together.
Claim #1: “Monkeypox is caused by COVID-19 vaccines”
Monkeypox, first seen in monkey colonies in the 1950s, 1970s It is a disease seen in a human for the first time in . This disease, which has been seen especially in Central and West African countries since those years, was also seen in non-African countries from time to time.
This claim, made by the anti-vaccine mass, denies a disease that has existed for 50 years. Although the side effect of skin rash after COVID-19 vaccines is quite rare, it is an effect seen. However, this rash is not as intense and seen all over the body as in monkey pox.
In addition, this rash is usually seen only after the first dose of mRNA vaccine and resolves in a short time. This side effect has been known since the introduction of mRNA vaccines and has not been denied or hidden.
Claim #2: “It is not the monkeypox virus seen now; its symptoms are different, it actually started in the ‘genital areas’, now it starts on the hand and face”
Monkey One of the interesting claims that you may come across about smallpox is that the rashes caused by the disease on the skin actually start in the genital areas; in cases seen now, hand and face symptoms occur.
However, this claim has no basis. It is known that rashes caused by monkeypox always first appear on the face and hand-arm area. There is no data that it starts in the genital areas.
Claim #3: “The vaccine developed for monkeypox says ‘Ankara’ on it, this is a conspiracy against us”
Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara (MVA) is a licensed vaccine developed for smallpox and used in vaccine development studies for many diseases from cancer to different infectious diseases all over the world. This vaccine was also used in the development of a vaccine developed for monkeypox and approved in 2019.
It is also written on the picture that the vaccine is not for monkeypox but for smallpox; ‘smallpox’. We know the monkey flower as monkeypox. This vaccine received ‘marketing’ authorization in Europe in 2013 for use in the ‘possible epidemic’ for smallpox.
Claim #4: “WHO says monkeypox spreads through sexual intercourse and is spread by gay men in Europe and America”
Monkey pox There is no scientific data that the disease spreads sexually and is distributed among gay men. The statement of the World Health Organization on this subject is a publication prepared to inform homosexual individuals about the disease after the cases reported from some health centers. “It is important to note that the risk of monkeypox is not limited to men who have sex with men. Anyone who has close contact with someone who is contagious is at risk.
Also, there is no information in the article that the monkeypox virus is sexually transmitted; transmission by contact is highlighted. The reason why this warning was made and the issue came to the fore was that some gay men who participated in a festival called the ‘Darkland fetish festival’ held in Belgium and attracting many visitors from abroad, had symptoms of illness. However, this does not mean that the main cause of the disease is sexual intercourse.
Claim #5: “Monkey pox was produced in the laboratory”
Again, as one of the traces left by the coronavirus epidemic, monkey pox is a disease produced in the laboratory; There are allegations that it is behind the USA and that it has spread from Nigeria.
However, these claims do not reflect the truth. The country where monkeypox was first detected in a human is not Nigeria, but the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition, when the virus circulating today is examined by looking at its DNA sequence, it can be understood that its source is the virus in West Africa and that it was not developed in the laboratory.
Moreover, monkeypox is not seen outside of Africa for the first time in history. It is known that it was most recently seen in Europe and America in 2019, and again in America in 2021. Animal trade and travel are thought to have caused the virus to circulate.
Claim #6: “Monkeypox is a planned epidemic, Bill Gates, globalists, WHO is at work”
As you can guess, most of the monkeypox One of the rumored claims is that the disease clung to us as a planned epidemic. It is also frequently spoken that Bill Gates, some ‘globalists’ and even the World Health Organization planned to spread this disease as a new epidemic.
However, this claim is beyond a baseless discourse; illogical. Because monkeypox is actively used vaccine and drug; It is a disease with a very low mortality rate and the symptoms go away on their own after a certain period of time. According to many institutions and organizations, the possibility of turning into an epidemic and returning to us as new restrictions does not exist.
Another source for these claims is a ‘fictional’ report prepared by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a US-based biosecurity organization. You can click here for our news about the details of the document in question. However, to summarize briefly, the report in question was a report prepared with fictitious data to observe what could be experienced in ‘in the event of a possible epidemic’. Its results did not show a ‘real’ scenario, but the possible endings of this fictional scenario.
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