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Is monkeypox a vaccine-induced autoimmune disease?!

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.

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

 

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 1958more 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.

Recommended : Does AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contain mpox virus?!

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”!

Recommended : Did FDA ask for 75 years to release Pfizer vaccine data?!

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.

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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