Is there any correlation between monkeypox and the Covid-19 Vaccine?
Blog post by Marica Micallef
On the 13th of May, the very first case of monkeypox was notified to the WHO. On the 21st of May, the WHO issued a statement in which it mentioned that 92 cases were notified to it from about 12 countries. The vast majority of those cases came from three countries which are UK, Portugal and Spain. The characteristics of monkeypox are rash with scabbing and high temperatures.
This blog already asked as to why there was no mention of a monkeypox case which was detected last November in Massachusetts. Another question to ask is how come the WHO didn’t mention that the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine was manufactured on the “chimpanzee adenovirus vector”, which, as Dr Vincent Carrol explained, comes from the bowel movement or the stool of the chimpanzee. The reason why it was used is for its simplified manufacturing process. Could it be that the AstraZeneca vaccine is causing this monkeypox outbreak? According to the Daily Mail, this is not the case and to claim such a connection is another bogus conspiracy theory because “Adenoviruses are a different family to orthopox viruses, the technical classification for monkeypox”, they have been “genetically modified to contain material carried by the coronavirus so that the body recognises it,” and “it cannot physically grow in humans”.[1]
However, according to Dr Carrol, although viruses are attenuated or modified so that they usually cannot revert to their wild state, it could happen that there occurs one reversion where the virus goes back to its wild state, and this would then allow human to human transmission. As an example, he gives that of the Sabin and Salk polio vaccines. The difference is that while the Sabin vaccine was made with a live but weakened, or attenuated (genetically modified) virus, the Salk was made with a killed virus. The Sabin was also given orally, via drops in the mouth but it was withdrawn in some countries like Ireland and replaced by the injectable vaccine, the Salk, because the Sabin vaccine carried the risk that the genetically modified virus that it contained would revert to its wild state, because genetically modified viruses can do that. So, Dr Carrol wondered if there has been the possibility of even one case of the genetically modified adenovirus present in the AstraZeneca vaccines, to return to its wild state and once things are transmitted from human to human, then it leaves the animal reservoir and it enters the human population. Then the spread starts. Although right now, no one can make a true connection, for those who are interested in true science, it would be worthy to ask and investigate via research if there is any correlation between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the monkeypox outbreak. Can the public know if those first cases which were detected, were vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine, and if yes, what kind of vaccine were they administered?
[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10849463/Monkeypox-myths-DEBUNKED-Bogus-conspiracy-theories-say-AstraZenecas-Covid-vaccine-contains-virus.html
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