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Is Bill Gates creating a supervirus using COVID, Mpox and HIV?!

Is Bill Gates creating a supervirus using COVID-19, Mpox and HIV?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : Bill Gates is creating a supervirus using COVID, Mpox, and HIV!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims that Bill Gates is creating a supervirus using COVID-19, Mpox, and HIV, to kill billions of people.

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Insider: Bill Gates Developing COVID-Mpox-HIV ‘Supervirus’ To Kill Billions of Humans

Bill Gates is working with Fauci to develop a new ‘supervirus’ that will combine RNA from SARS-CoV-2, mpox and HIV which will be capable of wiping out the vast majority of the population in a short space of time.

According to Biotech Analyst Karen Kingston, the supervirus will be aerosolised and sprayed on billions of humans worldwide.

On Wednesday, Kingston joined Brannon Howse to discuss the US House Committee questioning the alliance of the Biden-Harris Administration alliance with the Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”) and the US biopharmaceutical FDA trials being conducted by the Chinese military.

“It appears that the NIH has been funding the creation of a highly debilitating immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that can be transmitted via an injection, or even viaskin-to-skin contact during herpetic skin lesion breakouts (“mpox”),” Kingston said.

She explained that US and Canadian scientists filed a patent for mpox in China. The patent shows that the “monkeypox mRNA” was encoded as a latent virus into the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA found in Pfizer’s and Moderna’s covid-19 mRNA injections. In other words, a multi-species mpox was being used as a vaccine delivery vehicle for SARS-CoV-2.

“So, they’re saying that mpox is a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. It makes no sense,” she said. “And now the NIH is funding ways to aerosolise this.”

In some people, the covid injections cause vaccine-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (“VAIDS”)*, which weakens their immune system. And, Kingstone explained, because the sequences for pox-like viruses are embedded in the mRNA sequences contained in covid injections, those who develop VAIDS are likely to present with shingles and other herpetic (herpes virus) outbreaks, and herpetic cancer which is called Kaposi Sarcoma.

What’s scary, Kingston said, is that they are attempting to combine mpox, HIV and SARS-CoV-2; to make “a virus within a virus; [a] supervirus using nanoparticles technology to strengthen it so that there could be skin-to-skin transmission of a virus that is similar to HIV,” she said. This means it will be able to spread in a similar way that chickenpox spreads, through touching blisters or the liquid from blisters.

“It appears what they are trying to do is: within the pox virus family incorporate HIV mRNA strands so that there can be human-to-human transmission to just continually weaken our immune systems,” Kingston said.

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Truth : Bill Gates is not creating a supervirus using COVID, Mpox, and HIV!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : No evidence Bill Gates is creating any virus with Dr. Fauci

This may seem silly, but let me start by pointing out that there is ZERO evidence that Bill Gates is creating any virus with Dr. Anthony Fauci, much less a “supervirus” made using COVID-19, Mpox, and HIV.

If there is such a project to create a supervirus to kill billions of people, it would have resulted in massive outrage, and numerous criminal investigations. Yet, there has been no legitimate media report, or even any outrage or criticism from the scientific community (who would know best about such matters). That’s because it was all made up!

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any actual evidence that Bill Gates is working with Dr. Anthony Fauci to create a supervirus of any kind, never mind one made from COVID-19, Mpox and HIV.

Fact #2 : Karen Kingston did not even mention Bill Gates

The People’s Voice article appears to be based on an opinion piece and video clip by Karen Kingston (archive).

Interestingly, Karen Kingston did not mention Bill Gates even once! So why would The People’s Voice article suggest otherwise???

Fact #3 : Karen Kingston only worked as Pfizer representative

According to information posted on her LinkedIn profile (archive), Karen Kingston only worked at Pfizer from June 1996 to November 1998, as a healthcare representative.

As a Pfizer healthcare representative (example), her job scope would have been to sell Pfizer products or services to healthcare professionals in her region or area. She would not have any insight into product development, never mind actually conduct any research.

Her 2.5 year stint at Pfizer also occurred over 21 years before COVID-19 pandemic. So she would not have any insight into the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

As far as we can tell, Karen Kingston did not work on any scientific research at Pfizer, and she left long before mRNA vaccines were developed. So she can hardly be described as as “insider”.

Fact #4 : Pfizer mRNA vaccine was developed by BioNTech

In addition, the Pfizer mRNA vaccine was actually developed by a separate company – BioNTech, which is based in Germany. It was co-founders Özlem Türeci (left) and her husband, Uğur Şahin (right), who created the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19.

Pfizer was merely BioNTech’s partner for the purpose of carrying out clinical trials, manufacturing and distribution of the BioNTech mRNA vaccine for COVID-19. That’s why the vaccine was initially known as BNT162b2 – BNT being short for BioNTech, and later became the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

In short – Pfizer did not develop the mRNA vaccine technology used in its COVID-19 vaccine. It was created by Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci at BioNTech.

Fact #5 : Pfizer mRNA vaccine does not contain mpox or HIV viruses

The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine does not contain any monkeypox (now known as mpox) virus, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

We know this because the full sequence for the mRNA encoding used in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine consists of only 4250 nucleotides.

On the other hand, the monkeypox virus DNA genome is much larger at about 197kb in size, while the HIV virus RNA genome is about 9.2kb in size.

In other words – it is simply impossible for the much smaller mRNA encoding to contain monkeypox and HIV viruses!

Fact #6 : The People’s Voice is known for fake news

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should think twice about sharing anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Is monkeypox a vaccine-induced autoimmune disease?!

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Is monkeypox / mpox an autoimmune disease caused by the COVID-19 vaccine?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : Monkeypox is a vaccine-induced autoimmune disease!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims or suggests that monkeypox is a vaccine-induced autoimmune disease – autoimmune blistering disease, or shingles, or even herpes!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Top Virologists Blow Whistle: Monkeypox Is Actually COVID Vaccine-Induced ‘Autoimmune Blistering Disease’

Top doctors worldwide are stepping forward to expose the World Health Organization’s monkeypox scare as a cover-up for known side effects linked to the COVID mRNA vaccines.

According to leading virologist Dr. Poornima Wagh, we are not experiencing an outbreak of monkeypox around the world, as claimed by the WHO. As Dr. Wagh explains, the symptoms experienced by those diagnosed with monkeypox are actually a known side-effect of the Covid shots.

Meanwhile, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg has warned that the WHO’s claims of a monkeypox emergency is another scam and the disease we are witnessing is actually the result of destroyed immune syste shingles caused by the Covid shots.

Monkeypox cases are currently being reported in highly vaccinated countries around the world, while lesser-vaccinated countries are not reporting any cases.

Take, for instance, the confirmed Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine side-effect known as automimmune blistering disease which is listed in the fine print of confidential Pfizer documents as a known side-effect of the vaccines.

The condition is hidden within the 9-page long list of adverse events of special interest at the end of Pfizer’s reissue_5.3.6 postmarketing experience.pdf document.

Official government data and confidential Pfizer documents strongly suggest the Covid-19 injection is in the process of reactivating the dormant chickenpox virus or herpes virus due to the severe damage mRNA does to the immune system.

This means we may not be witnessing a worldwide outbreak of monkeypox at all, but rather a huge cover-up of the consequences of administering an experimental injection to millions of people.

Meanwhile, another confidential Pfizer document contained in the data dump, known as ‘reissue_5.3.6 postmarketing experience.pdf’, revels that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have destroyed immune systems, causing herpes viral infections to make a major comeback.

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Truth : Monkeypox is not a vaccine-induced autoimmune disease!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Monkeypox is not an autoimmune disease

Let me start by pointing out that monkeypox (which is now known as mpox) is not an autoimmune disease in the first place.

Mpox / monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPV, MPXV, or hMPXV) – a double-stranded DNA virus from the Orthopoxvirus genus.

Fact #2 : Monkeypox is not caused by COVID-19 vaccines

To be clear, monkeypox is not caused by any COVID-19 vaccine, because they do not contain the monkeypox virus, as some have alleged.

Fact #3 : Mpox virus was first identified in 1958

Mpox was first identified by Preben von Magnus in crab-eating macaque monkeys (hence, the name) that were being used as laboratory animals in Denmark, way back in 1958 – more than 60 years before the COVID-19 vaccines were invented.

Fact #4 : First human mpox infection was diagnosed in 1970

In addition, the first known human mpox infection was diagnosed in 1970, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where mpox is endemic.

This occurred more than 50 years before the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved, so mpox infections have nothing to do with COVID-19 vaccines.

Fact #5 : DRC has very low COVID-19 vaccination rate

It is ludicrous to claim or suggest that the current mpox / monkeypox outbreak is caused by COVID-19 vaccination, because it started in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has very low COVID-19 vaccination rates due to poor healthcare infrastructure, political instability and… misinformation!

According to the latest available data, only about 2.6 million people in Congo – out of 110 million people, have been vaccinated against COVID-19. That’s a vaccination rate of less than 2.5%, even if you assume they were all “fully-vaccinated”.

Fact #6 : COVID-19 vaccines are not associated with autoimmune disease

After billions of doses were administered and over 3.5 years of monitoring, COVID-19 vaccines are not known to cause any autoimmune disease. Neither do they cause viral diseases like herpes by “destroying the immune system”.

People claiming that mpox is really autoimmune blistering disease, or herpes, or shingles, appear to base their “opinions” on the Pfizer list of 1,291 Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) that some claim the FDA tried to block for 75 years.

That’s just utter nonsense, because the AESI list is not a list of vaccine side effects, and includes irrelevant adverse events like viral infections (herpes, MERS, varicella, etc., as well as “manufacturing production issue” and even “product availability issue”!

Fact #7 : Autoimmune diseases cannot spread like a virus

Autoimmune diseases like autoimmune blistering disease, pemphigus, or pemphigoid, arise when your own immune system mistakenly attacks your skin, or mucous membranes. It cannot spread from person to person.

Monkeypox / mpox infections, on the other hand, are caused by a viral infection that spreads through close or sexual contact.

So it is really silly to claim or suggest that the current outbreak of monkeypox / mpox is really vaccine-induced autoimmune diseases that spread from person-to-person… like a virus!

Fact #8 : The People’s Voice Is Known For Fake News

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

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Was this man shot with buckshot or infected with monkeypox?!

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Was this man shot by Iranian security forces with buckshot, or infected with mpox / monkeypox?! Take a look at the viral photo, and find out what the facts really are!

Updated @ 2024-08-21 : Added Ama Llulla network fact check, and more details
Originally posted @ 2024-08-20

Claim : This man was shot with buckshot, not infected with monkeypox!

Some people are claiming that the famous photo of a man with multiple black scabs was not infected with monkeypox, but rather, he was shot by Iranian security forces with buckshot.

Debbie Crawford : Fake pic! That is a guy that got shot with Buckshot years ago, stop with the fear porn already

Kevin McKernan : It’s a buckshot injury you PhDarded NPC.

Tarek : this is not monkey pox..i am in Congo and help with hospitals.. this is just a protestor shot with buckshot in Iran

Truth : This man was infected with monkeypox, not shot with buckshot!

This appears to be an example of (accidental?) fake news circulating on social media, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : False claims based on Iran HRM article

It appears that people who claimed that this photo actually shows a man who was shot by Iranian security forces with buckshot, based their opinions on an Iran Human Rights Monitor (HRM) article that was posted on 8 November 2022 (archive). Here’s an excerpt:

Shooting to kill, an unretouched image of Iran regime

A documentary on the Iranian regime’s use of shotguns against Iranian protesters

State forces in Iran fire the shotguns with pellets as alternatives to live ammunition against protesters. This use of arms is an act against international laws. A shotgun is not only considered a deadly weapon, but it accidentally harms anyone in its range. Children and the elderly are all possible targets, even passers-by and those who may not be participating in protests.

The Iran HRM article posted a slightly-cropped photo of the man with dozens of large black scabs, with the description – “A citizen hit by buckshot“.

Fact #2 : Photo shows immunocompromised mpox patient

The truth is – the viral photo was wrongly labelled by Iran Human Rights Monitor, as a victim of buckshot fired by Iranian security forces.

This photo was taken by Dr. Hiram Jerónimo, a Mexican infectious disease specialist, who posted it on 11 October 2022 – almost a month before the Iran HRM article.

He confirmed that the man was an immunocompromised patient who suffered a severe case of monkeypox (Viruela símica) with more than 250 lesions.

Obviously, this photo was taken in Mexico by Dr. Jerónimo, and could not have been taken in Iran.

Fact #3 : A single buckshot wound would not present like this

The Iran HRM article suggests that the man might have been shot with a 12-gauge shotgun firing either #4 buckshot or 00 buckshot, due to the size of the wounds.

However, if you take a closer look, you can see that the wounds extend all around his body – around both sides, and all the way to his head and even the ears! It would be quite impossible for him to be shot with so many pellets in a single shot. I counted over 105 large black scabs in that photo, and there’s more if you count the healed pockmarks.

For those wounds to be caused by a shotgun, he would have been shot multiple times – at least 4 to 12 times, based on the number of wounds. He would also “need” to be shot at different angles, for the buckshot to hit his back, his head, as well as both left and right sides.

If that man was really shot multiple times by a 12-gauge shotgun, he would have likely died, even if they used smaller buckshot.

Buckshot wounds look different, and would also not protrude outwards like pox-like bumps, which is how monkeypox / mpox presents (source).

Fact #4 : Some wounds have healed

If you look closely at the photo, you can also see circular scars of healed wounds on the man’s back.

Unless he got shot with buckshot on two different occasions days or weeks apart, it is far more likely that those are healed monkeypox scars.

Fact #5 : Ama Llulla confirmed this in February 2023

Ama Llulla – the Peruvian fact-checking network, actually fact checked this viral photo in a February 2023 article, and confirmed that it was a photo of an immunocompromised patient suffering from severe monkeypox (mpox) which was posted by Dr. José Hiram Hernández Jerónimo on 11 October 2022.

It also confirmed that the photo was incorrectly circulated as someone who was injured during the protests in Iran (translated):

It should be noted that the image of the patient has previously been circulated incorrectly, claiming that he was injured during the protests in Iran. In a statement from ‘Stichting Van De Familieleden’ (SF), a non-profit organization dedicated to defending human rights in Iran, the photo in question was published with the claim that it depicted ‘a civilian hit by pellets.’

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Does AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contain mpox virus?!

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Does the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine secretly contain the mpox virus?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contains mpox virus!

Some people are sharing a photo of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine package leaflet, claiming or suggesting that AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine secretly contains the mpox virus!

Concerned Citizen : Covid Vaccines say what about Mpox?

Theo Fleury : Hmmmm what do we have here.

TRUTH NOW : FACTS ARE DANGEROUS THINGS! Don’t take another vax! THE ASTRAZENECA VACCINE CONTAINS MONKEY POX!!!!!!!!!

Fletch17 : Well what do you know! What do we have here!!!!! #monkeypox

John Olooney : Monkey pox Already injected into vaccine recipients

The Sacred Blue Tent : THE ASTRA ZENECA JAB CONTAINED MONKEY POX. WAKE UP VAXXERS!

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The photo highlights the portion of the vaccine leaflet that says that it contains a “Recombinant, replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus vector encoding the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein.”

Truth : AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine does not contain mpox virus!

This is yet another example of fake news created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Mpox is caused by an Orthopoxvirus

Let me start by quickly pointing out that the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) virus is not a chimpanzee adenovirus.

Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPV, MPXV, or hMPXV) – a double-stranded DNA virus from the Orthopoxvirus genus in the Poxviridae family. It is closely related to the smallpox virus (variola)

The chimpanzee adenovirus is also a double-stranded DNA virus, but it is from the Mastadenovirus genus in the Adenoviridae family. It is similar to the adenoviruses that cause the common flu in human beings.

These two viruses are as different as cats and dogs. Cats and dogs are both mammals, but as you can tell – they are quite different animals!

Fact #2 : Adenovirus used in AstraZeneca vaccine cannot replicate

The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine uses a chimpanzee adenovirus to “teach” some of our cells to produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins to trigger an immune response.

The chimpanzee adenovirus used in the vaccine – ChAdOx1 – had already been modified from the original ChAd virus serotype Y25 to prevent replication. Therefore, the virus cannot replicate, and is incapable of producing any disease in human beings.

Fact #5 : DRC has very low COVID-19 vaccination rate

It is ludicrous to claim or suggest that the current mpox outbreak is caused by the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, because it started in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has very low COVID-19 vaccination rates due to poor healthcare infrastructure, political instability and… misinformation!

According to the latest available data, only about 2.6 million people – out of 110 million people, have been vaccinated against COVID-19. That’s a vaccination rate of less than 2.5%, even if you assume they were all “fully-vaccinated”.

Fact #6 : 2022, 2024 monkeypox outbreaks started years later

The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been given to over 2.4 billion people globally, since its approval in December 2020. If the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can actually cause mpox infections, it would have resulted in massive mpox outbreaks all over the world within days of being administered.

Yet the 2022 and 2024 monkeypox outbreaks only started 1.5 to 2.5 years after the AstraZeneca vaccine was introduced. In other words – even the temporal timeline for this ridiculous claim is out of whack!

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Can AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine give you monkeypox?!

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Can the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine give you monkeypox? Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

Updated @ 2024-08-20 : Updated, and refreshed after the same claims went viral with the 2024 mpox outbreak
Originally posted @ 2022-09-04

Claim : AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can give you monkeypox!

In recent weeks, people have sharing photos of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine leaflet, claiming that it is evidence that the AstraZeneca vaccine is responsible for the current monkeypox outbreak.

They are highlighting the portion of the vaccine leaflet that says that it contains a “Recombinant, replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus vector encoding the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein.”

They believe that it is this virus that causes monkeypox, and that the AstraZeneca vaccine is responsible for spreading monkeypox to vaccinated people.

Here are some of the comments that accompany these viral posts :

Who is surprised that after millions of people have been injected with genetically modified chimp virus, there is now an outbreak of monkeypox?

“The AstraZeneca vaccine uses a chimpanzee adenovirus vaccine vector” Makes you wonder doesn’t it.🤔🤔🤔🤔

More monkey business #AstraZeneca #monkeypox

Truth : AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine won’t give you monkeypox!

This is yet another example of fake news created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Adenovirus used in AstraZeneca vaccine cannot replicate

The AstraZeneca Vaxzevria vaccine, codenamed AZD1222, uses a chimpanzee adenovirus to “teach” some of our cells to produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins to trigger an immune response.

Fact #2 : Monkeypox is not caused by chimpanzee adenovirus

Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, which is completely different from the chimpanzee adenovirus.

The monkeypox virus is a double-stranded DNA virus from the Orthopoxvirus genus in the Poxviridae family. It is closely related to the smallpox virus (variola).

These two viruses are as different as cats and dogs. Cats and dogs are both mammals, but as you can tell – they are quite different animals!

Fact #3 : Monkeypox is a misnomer

Monkeypox was first identified and named in 1958, when it was identified in laboratory monkeys in Copenhagen, Denmark.

However, the name monkeypox is a misnomer, as it is not very common in monkeys. Neither did it originate in monkeys, nor does it spread only through monkeys.

It is known to spread through prairie dogs, dormice, squirrels, and non-human primates. It may possibly also spread through rabbits, rats and mice.

Fact #4 : Chimpanzees are not monkeys

Not that it matters, but you should know that chimpanzees and monkeys are of different species.

Chimpanzees and monkeys are both primates, but their last common ancestor dates back some 30 million years ago.

Monkeys are simians; while chimpanzees are great apes, and are genetically closest to human beings.

Fact #5 : 2022, 2024 monkeypox outbreaks started years later

Fact #6 : Monkeypox started infecting people in 1970

The first human monkeypox infections were reported in 1970. As you can tell – that’s almost 50 years before the COVID-19 pandemic, and 51 years before the AstraZeneca vaccine was introduced.

Fact #7 : Monkeypox cases were increasing before COVID-19

At first, monkeypox infections in humans were relatively few – about 400 cases from 1970 to 1986, and they were mostly limited to Central and Weest Africa.

However, it started becoming more common, with 2000 cases per year reported between 2011 and 2014. There were also several small outbreaks in the US (2003 and 2021), UK (2018 and 2021), and Singapore (2019).

These cases all happened long before the COVID-19 pandemic, and certainly long before AstraZeneca and Oxford developed their Vaxzevria vaccine against COVID-19!

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Is Mpox a side effect of COVID-19 vaccines?!

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Is Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) actually a side effect of COVID-19 vaccines?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : Mpox is a side effect of COVID-19 vaccines!

Some people are claiming or suggesting that Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is actually a side effect of COVID-19 vaccines!

Concerned Citizen : Autoimmune disease VS Mpox

Autoimmune disease was a well known & listed common side effect from Pfizer’s experimental mRNA Gene Therapy Roll out. It looks remarkably identical to Monkey pox. Must be a coincidence.

Shadow of Ezra : A comparison between Autoimmune Blistering Disease and Monkeypox. Autoimmune Blistering Disease is identified as an Adverse Event of Special Interest in Pfizer’s COVID mRNA vaccines, as disclosed in the court-ordered Pfizer documents, which the company initially wanted to keep confidential for 72 years.

Dr Jane Ruby : MONKEYPOX IS C19 INJECTION CAUSED “Autoimmune blistering disease,” aka opportunistic Shingles. This is an attempt to prepare the public to accept a “monkeypox vaccine”

HealthRanger : “Monkeypox” is just another name for vaccine-induced autoimmune disease. Do not forget this. As they roll out the monkeypox “pandemic,” they WILL be able to produce lots of scary-looking people with horrific skin outbreaks. They will lie to you and tell you that you need a vaccine to be safe. If you believe the lie, you may die after being injected with their death jabs.

Chris Wick News : Is ‘Monkeypox’ Just a Convenient Rebrand for Vaccine-Induced Autoimmune Disease?”

Could it be that “Monkeypox” is nothing more than a flashy new name for vaccine-induced autoimmune disease? Are we really supposed to believe that as they roll out this latest “pandemic,” they’ll conveniently have a supply of scary-looking individuals with terrifying skin outbreaks to keep us all on edge? Will they, once again, try to sell us the idea that the only way to be “safe” is by lining up for another jab—despite the risks?

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Truth : Mpox is not a side effect of COVID-19 vaccines!

This is yet another example of fake news created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : Mpox is caused by a virus

Let me start by quickly pointing out that mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) is not a side effect of COVID-19 vaccines. Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus (MPV, MPXV, or hMPXV) – a double-stranded DNA virus from the Orthopoxvirus genus.

Fact #2 : Mpox virus was first identified in 1958

Fact #3 : First human mpox infection was diagnosed in 1970

In addition, the first known human mpox infection was diagnosed in 1970, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where mpox is endemic.

This occurred more than 50 years before the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved, so mpox infections have nothing to do with COVID-19 vaccines.

Fact #4 : DRC has very low COVID-19 vaccination rate

It is also ludicrous to claim or suggest that the current mpox outbreak is caused by COVID-19 vaccination, because it started in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has very low COVID-19 vaccination rates due to poor healthcare infrastructure, political instability and… misinformation!

Fact #5 : COVID-19 vaccines are not associated with autoimmune disease

After billions of doses were administered and over 3.5 years of monitoring, COVID-19 vaccines are not known to cause any autoimmune disease.

People claiming that mpox is really autoimmune blistering disease, or pemphigus, or bullous pemphigoid, appear to base their “opinions” on the Pfizer list of 1,291 Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) that some claim the FDA tried to block for 75 years.

Fact #6 : Autoimmune diseases cannot spread like a virus

Mpox infections, on the other hand, are caused by a viral infection that spreads through close or sexual contact.

So it is really silly to claim or suggest that the current outbreak of mpox is really vaccine-induced autoimmune diseases that spread from person-to-person… like a virus!

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Is Bill Gates using chemtrails to spread monkeypox?!

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Is Bill Gates using chemtrails to spread monkeypox in major cities?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : Bill Gates is using chemtrails to spread monkeypox!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claims that a whistleblower at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed that Bill Gates is using chemtrails to spread monkeypox in major cities!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

Whistleblower: Bill Gates Seeding Monkeypox in Major Cities via Chemtrails

A disturbing revelation has emerged from within the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as a whistleblower comes forward to expose a plan to use the existing chemtrails operation to unleash the next pandemic.

A senior scientist has bravely broken her silence to reveal a covert operation known as “Project Skypox” which involves spraying a highly contagious variety of aerosolized monkeypox over unsuspecting civilian populations with a view to causing a new pandemic and rolling out a punishing regime of vaccines and restrictions.

Claiming that staff at the Gates Foundation are divided over the morality of this operation, the senior scientist warns that Gates is laser-focused on the plan and determined to push ahead with it whether his staff agree with him or not.

According to WHO chief Dr. Tedros, who receives the vast bulk of his paycheck from Bill Gates, sovereign nations to coordinate a global response to what he describes as the “Mpox international health emergency” following a minor outbreak in isolated parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Gates Foundation conveniently already has enough mpox vaccinations ready to vaccinate the bulk of the world but there is just one problem, according to a brave Gates Foundation scientist who has become the highest placed whistleblower in the history of the organization.

According to the whistleblower, Mpox just isn’t contagious enough and the elite are desperately seeking new ways to infect the global population so they can roll out the next phase of their totalitarian master plan to enslave humanity

The Gates Foundation whistleblower revealed the organization is working with globalist institutions including the United Nations and World Economic Forum to expedite an mRNA vaccine rollout in the same manner as the Covid pandemic.

Except this vaccine will be pumped into the arms of the masses even faster, without any testing, and the consequences will be even worse.

According to the Gates Foundation insider, the organization is being placed under enormous strain by Gates’ increasingly psychopathic methods.

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Truth : Bill Gates is not using chemtrails to spread monkeypox!

This is yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : There is no whistleblower

Let me start by pointing out that there is no whistleblower scientist at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

If a high-level employee at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation actually blew the whistle on a conspiracy to spread monkeypox (now known as mpox), it would have been covered widely by the mainstream media. There would also have been massive outrage not only by the public, but also public health officials. In fact, such a shocking revelation would have triggered criminal investigations across the world!

Yet, there has been no media coverage, no outraged public health officials or public, not even a single criminal investigation. That’s because it never happened, and the story was completely made up!

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article provided no evidence that such a whistleblower exists, never mind actually proving the claims he/she made.

Fact #2 : Monkeypox cannot spread through chemtrails

The whole concept of using airplanes to spread monkeypox through chemtrails is utter nonsense. Any genuine whistleblower scientist would know it’s impossible to spread monkeypox by spraying it from 10 kilometres up in the sky.

For one thing – human transmission of mpox occurs mainly through direct contact with the infectious skin, or other lesions in the mouth or on genitals. According to the WHO, it can also spread through very close contact, like:

face-to-face (talking or breathing)
skin-to-skin (touching or vaginal/anal sex)
mouth-to-mouth (kissing)
mouth-to-skin contact (oral sex or kissing the skin)
respiratory droplets or short-range aerosols from prolonged close contact

In other words – you cannot spread mpox by spraying it from tens of thousands of feet up in the sky. Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence to back up its “fact checked” claim.

Fact #3 : Chemtrails do not exist

The term “chemtrails” refers to the belief that condensation trails (contrails) left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually chemical or biological agents being deliberately spread for various nefarious purposes.

The truth is – chemtrails do not exist. The white trails you see behind airplanes flying at high altitudes are contrails – trails of water vapour from aircraft engines that condenses into ice crystals in the extremely cold air.

In fact, these contrails have been seen since aircraft were able to fly at high altitudes, and were prominent during World War 2, when contrails were often seen during high-altitude bombing missions.

On top of that, it would require many tens of thousands of people in the aviation industry to work in perfect unison to cover up an industry-wide conspiracy to spray people with chemicals or biological agents like mpox. In truth – such a conspiracy would have been exposed within hours, if not days.

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence of an industry-wide conspiracy to spray major cities with monkeypox, never mind actual evidence that Bill Gates was involved in such a nefarious plot.

Fact #4 : The People’s Voice Is Known For Fake News

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should never share anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice. Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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Did Mpox Clade 1b hit Singapore with 9-10 cases so far?!

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Did Mpox Clade 1b hit Singapore with 9 or 10 cases so far?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

Claim : Mpox Clade Ib hit Singapore with 9-10 cases so far!

People are sharing a photo of an mpox patient, claiming that Mpox Clade 1b has already hit Singapore with 9 cases so far.

Mpox has arrived in Singapore. 9 cases so far.
Mpox 已抵达新加坡。目前已有 9 例.

Fwd from SG friend.
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Mpox is now spreading in Singapore… with 10 cases reported so far. Time to SERIOUSLY resume your personal safety measures IMMEDIATELY.
Start wearing Masks, Wash your hands & stay away from crowds.
MOH warns that this is a HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.
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Stay safe, stay healthy

Mpox has arrived in Singapore. 10 cases so far.

Truth : Mpox Clade 1b has not hit Singapore with 9-10 cases so far!

This is yet another example of fake news circulating on WhatsApp, and here are the reasons why…

Fact #1 : WHO only declared PHEIC over Mpox Clade Ib

Let me start by quickly pointing out that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 14 August 2024 for Mpox Clade 1b (Clade Ib).

Here is the relevant section of the WHO PHEIC declaration, with our emphasis in bold.

The emergence last year and rapid spread of a new virus strain in DRC, clade 1b, which appears to be spreading mainly through sexual networks, and its detection in countries neighbouring the DRC is especially concerning, and one of the main reasons for the declaration of the PHEIC.

In the past month, over 100 laboratory-confirmed cases of clade 1b have been reported in four countries neighbouring the DRC that have not reported mpox before: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Experts believe the true number of cases to be higher as a large proportion of clinically compatible cases have not been tested.

Fact #2 : Singapore has no Mpox Clade 1b cases yet

With that 2024 WHO PHEIC in mind, Singapore has not recorded any cases of Mpox Clade 1b yet, as of Monday, 19 August 2024.

On Saturday, 17 August 2024, Singapore Health Minister Ong Ye Huang said that the current risk of an outbreak in Asia and Singapore is low as there are no direct flights to the affected areas in Africa.

He said that the virus is mostly a concern for African countries, although it is expected to spread to the Middle East and Europe, and cases there could eventually spread to Singapore.

I would say, in general, this is a very worrying situation, especially for the African continent.

But I think we should work on the basis that mpox will arrive in Asia. And probably, Singapore will be one of the first places to find cases because of our flight connections (with Middle East and Europe).

In other words, there has been NO RECORDED CASES of Mpox Clade 1b cases in Singapore yet. There could be some in the future, but none at this point in time, as per the Singapore Ministry of Health (archive).

To date, all mpox infections detected in Singapore have been the milder Clade II infections, mostly during the 2022-2023 global outbreak.

Fact #3 : Singapore has had dozens of mpox cases

It appears that “rumours” that Singapore has 9 or 10 mpox recently is based on a misunderstanding of media reports like this:

Singapore has had 10 cases of mpox since January 2024, which the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed were from the clade II variant.

The problem is – people don’t understand that the current concern isn’t the Clade II strain that has been going around since the 2022 outbreaks.

In fact, Singapore reported 18 cases in 2022, and 32 cases in 2023, followed by 10 cases in 2024. So Singapore has had dozens – at least 60, of mpox Clade 2 cases since the 2022 outbreaks.

What Singapore has not encountered (yet) is the new mpox Clade 1b strain that is worrying health experts, and the reason why WHO issued its second mpox PHEIC in two years.

Fact #4 : Mpox photo was of immunocompromised patient from 2022

The viral photo of the patient with a large number of huge black scabs appears to have been misappropriated and wrongly (or falsely?) labelled by the Iran Human Rights Monitor, as a victim of buckshot fired by Iranian security forces (archive).

This photo appears to have been taken by Dr. Hiram Jerónimo, a Mexican infectious disease specialist, who posted it on 11 October 2022. He confirmed that it was an immunocompromised patient who suffered a severe case of monkeypox (Viruela símica) with more than 250 lesions.

Fact #5 : Mpox Clade Ib is different from Clade 2b from 2022 outbreaks

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, isn’t a new disease. The Orthopoxvirus causing mpox was first detected in humans in 1970, and has caused outbreaks now and then. But mpox only came into prominence in July 2022, when a multi-country outbreak of mpox Clade 2 cause concern enough for the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a PHEIC.

However, the 2022 outbreaks were caused by the mpox Clade 2b (Clade IIb) virus, which is a different strain from the mpox Clade 1b (Ib) virus that is causing the current health emergency in 2024.

As the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) explains, mpox Clade 1 and Clade 2 are “genetically distinct”, with different characteristics (WHO):

Mpox Clade 1 (also known as the Central African clade, or the Congo Basin clade) has a different genetic profile from Mpox Clade 2 (also known as the West African clade),
Mpox Clade 1 has more severe clinical symptoms, with higher rates of complications and fatalities, than Mpox Clade 2

While both clades are primarily transmitted through contact with infected animals, human-to-human transmission has occurred with the newer Clade 1b and Clade 2b strains.

Mpox Clade 2b outbreak of 2022-2023 primarily spreads through sexual contact.
The newer mpox Clade 1b outbreak of 2024 primarily spreads through close contact.

To be clear – what is concerning WHO and health officials worldwide isn’t the milder mpox Clade 2 strain that has been going around globally since 2022, but the new, and more virulent mpox Clade 1b that has started to spread out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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