News agency AFP went through allegations that began circulating online as monkey pox cases began to be found outside of West and East Africa.
With the increase in monkey pox cases around the world, false claims and false news have also begun to spread on the internet and social media services, according to AFP news agency.
About 30 countries have reported monkey pox cases since May. For example, a large proportion of the more than 900 reported cases are in Europe. Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL (you switch to another service) according to Africa, the disease occurs from time to time. Monkey pox occurs in tropical rainforests in Central and West Africa.
AFP went through three allegations of monkey pox that are false.
Claim 1) Monkey pox is a side effect of Astra Zeneca’s coronary vaccine
According to AFP, this claim is circumvented in social media posts. The claim relates to Astra Zeneca’s coronavirus vaccine, which uses chimpanzee adenovirus to carry genetic instructions to elicit a response in humans.
Experts told AFP that the claim is false, in part because the viruses belong to different families and because the vaccine is unable to give rise to another virus within a human and thus cause monkey pox. As with other viral vector vaccines, chimpanzee adenovirus has been altered so that it does not infect or replicate in humans.
Professor Yoo Jin-hong, An epidemiologist at the Catholic University of Korea, tells AFP that Astra Zeneca ‘s claim “seems to stem from the idea that chimpanzees are commonly referred to as monkeys.” He says the rumor is due to ignorance and has no basis in reality.
Claim 2) In the United States, only Pfizer has received FDA approval for its monkeypox vaccination
This false rumor is also related to the coronavirus, as Pfizer was the first to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus in the United States during the pandemic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the monkey vaccine vaccine as early as 2019 and Pfizer will not manufacture the vaccine.
The Jynneus vaccine is being manufactured by Bavarian Nordic, which announced in May that the U.S. administration had ordered $ 119 million in doses. The smallpox vaccine also has 85 percent effectiveness against monkey pox, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control told AFP.
Claim 3) According to a Canadian television company, 95% of cases are shingles
According to the Canadian CTV channel, the article featured in the social media updates is not on its website, as that news has never existed on the company’s website.
Professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty School of Medicine Isaac Bogoch tells AFP that while some symptoms may be similar in cases of shingles and monkeypox, they are not caused by the same virus.
According to Bogoch, shingles and monkeypox are “completely different infections.”