🌎 Posts shared on Facebook and Twitter claim monkeypox is 'only circulating in countries distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine'. This is false ❌ There is no link between monkeypox and the vaccine, experts say
But medical experts told AFP the claim that monkeypox outbreaks are linked to Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid vaccine is false., although monkeypox is not highly contagious, it can be"transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding.
" Jaya Dantas, professor of international health at Australia's Curtin University, said she had found no correlation between recent monkeypox outbreaks and the countries where the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been administered. "The Pfizer vaccine has been administered in 180 countries and most of these do not have any cases of monkeypox," Dantas told AFP. Peter Collignon, a professor from the Australian National University Medical School, told AFP that monkeypox existed for decades before Covid-19 vaccines were created. "Monkeypox has been known for decades, long before Covid-19 vaccines have been developed," Collignon said. He went on to say that some mRNA vaccines -- such as the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech -- have"side effects but serious ones are relatively uncommon". The claim that the WHO has not received reports of monkeypox cases from countries not using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is also false.-- have reported at least one case of monkeypox as of August 9 but their respective health authorities do not administer Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine to the public. A Pfizer spokesperson told AFP that governments and experts around the world have continually reviewed the vaccine's data to ensure it is safe."The safety profile for the vaccine for all authorised groups continues to be favourable," the spokesperson said.The WHO also told AFP that the map that purports to show the spread of monkeypox around the world had been altered. "The red writing and circle have been added. Also, the heading in bold is not ours," a WHO spokesperson said.published on June 27, 2022.The spokesperson went on to say the claim that"health authorities are scrambling to cover up the damage of injecting millions of people with an experimental mRNA injection" is false. The other map in the false posts that purports to show the distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is outdated.in the Postgraduate Medical Journal first published in August 2021 showing the distribution of Pfizer vaccines as of May 16, 2021Collignon said mutations and increasing levels of international travel after the lifting of Covid-related restrictions have contributed to recent outbreaks outside of Africa.The WHO wrote in its latest update inthat the wide geographic spread of cases indicates that the monkeypox virus"might have been circulating below levels detectable by the surveillance systems and sustained human-to-human transmission might have been undetected for a period of time". AFP has previously debunked claims of adverse effects caused by the Covid vaccine; including that the vaccine is
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