VACCINE AstraZeneca in a number of statements on the social network Twitter, was cited as the trigger for the emergence of monkey pox.
The claim was attributed to the attenuated chimpanzee adenovirus vector content in the AstraZeneca vaccine.
One of the narratives about monkeypox was published in a post by the owner of a Twitter account named @irishcatholic16 on June 19, 2022.
The following is the text of the narrative which has been changed to use Indonesian, “Monkeypox was made from the AstraZeneca vaccine because the vaccine contains a chimpanzee virus…”.
However, is it true that the AstraZeneca vaccine is the trigger for the current monkeypox outbreak?
An epidemiologist at the Catholic University of Korea Professor Yoo Jin-hong explained, the chimpanzee adenovirus used in the AstraZeneca vaccine has been modified to prevent it from replicating, so it is harmless and causes disease in humans.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the monkeypox virus belongs to a group called “Orthopoxvirus” or the viruses that cause smallpox and cowpox.
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Meanwhile, adenovirus causes common or flu -like symptoms to inflammation of the stomach.
As reported by Antara, Infectious Diseases Expert at Gachon University Gil Medical Center Professor Eom Jung-shik also emphasized that vaccines cannot produce new viruses in humans and cause something like monkeypox.
With a number of these objections, the claim of the AstraZeneca vaccine being the trigger for the current monkeypox outbreak can be categorized as misleading information aka hoax!
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