Original article (in Serbian) was published on 14/07/2022
“Monkeypox arose as a result of the Pfizer vaccine”, claims British conspiracy theorist David Icke, emphasizing an argument that in countries where the Pfizer vaccine against Covid is administered, there has been an increase in people infected with monkeypox. However, this is not proof that Pfizer affects the development of monkeypox, and the Pfizer company and several doctors have denied claims about this connection.
“Monkeypox circulates only in countries where the population has received a fake Pfizer vaccine and is being used to advance the big reset”, claims conspiracy theorist David Icke in a video shared on the Facebook profile “Simun news room“ and Viber groups “ Budjenje naroda” (The awakening of the people) and “Istinom protiv plandemije” (Truth against the plandemia).
Icke, who speaks directly to the camera, uses parts of an article that was previously published on the anti-vaxxer web portal from Great Britain, “The Expose”, which normally spreads disinformation and conspiracy theories. At the beginning of 2022, this web portal claimed without logical arguments that the fully vaccinated would lose their immunity by the end of February this year, which Raskrikavanje wrote about.
This time, Icke cites an article claiming that monkeypox is being used to “cover up the consequences of injecting millions of people with an experimental mRNA vaccine that causes damage to the immune system”.
Monkeypox, as written on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO), was registered in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and mainly spread across African countries until 2003, when 70 cases were registered in the USA. As Raskrikavanje recently wrote, during the previous five and a half years (from 2017 to April 2022), a total of 241 cases were recorded in the countries of the world, of which eight people died. So, this type of smallpox was registered even before the advent of the vaccine against the coronavirus.
Since the middle of May of this year, an increase in the number of cases of monkeypox has been observed in the countries of Europe and America, and according to the latest WHO data, 9,200 infected people have been registered in 63 countries.
The WHO is investigating the cause of the increase in the number of people infected with monkeypox.
On the other hand, since the end of May this year, over three and a half billion Pfizer vaccines have been delivered to 179 countries worldwide, states the company’s website.
Vaccination against Covid started at the beginning of 2021, and there was a sudden increase in the number of people infected with monkeypox in May of this year, which also indicates that there is no connection between them.
Icke also claims that monkeypox is used to cover up that the Pfizer vaccine weakens human immunity, but he does not provide any arguments for these claims.
In the text of the British site “The Expose”, the unknown author claims the same thing – that it is not monkeypox but an autoimmune disease of blisters – a disease with changes on the skin in the form of blisters.
This claim appeared earlier based on a report that was part of Pfizer’s documentation for obtaining a license for biological dispensing from the US Food and Drug Administration.
The autoimmune blistering disease is indeed mentioned in the report, but as part of “adverse effects of special interest”. Istinomer, who previously analyzed these claims, notes that “the listed side effects do not represent confirmed side effects of the vaccine, but a set of side effects to various vaccines, medicines, and the disease Covid-19, which is used for monitoring”.
However, monkeypox is not mentioned anywhere in the aforementioned report.
The company Pfizer denied to Reuters the claims about the connection between the vaccine and monkeypox, stating that “monkeypox is not among the listed side effects of the vaccine against Covid”.
Pfizer’s vaccine “does not contain any live virus and is completely synthetic. The vaccine does not release any virus that is transmitted from person to person”, Pfizer stated.
Dr. Ames Adalja from John Hopkins University told Reuters that “monkeypox is an infectious disease, not an autoimmune disease”.
“Monkeypox is a well-known viral infection that causes more than just a rash – swollen lymph nodes, fever, malaise, fatigue, and the like”.
Speaking about the differences, Adalja explained that the diagnosis of monkeypox is based on the isolation of the genetic material of the virus, and a wrong diagnosis cannot “happen easily”. The diagnosis of the autoimmune blistering disease, on the other hand, involves the identification of specific autoantibodies or proteins of the immune system.
The autoimmune blistering disease is a rare disorder of the immune system that can develop at any age, including in children, but mostly affects the elderly. It occurs as a result of diseases of the immune system and leads to skin rashes and blisters.
As Raskrikavanje wrote recently – Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines are based on the informative RNA of the virus, which gives cells “instructions” on how to form antibodies to defend themselves against the coronavirus infection. After delivering the informational “instructions”, the RNA is degraded in the body.
In May this year, similar claims appeared on anti-vaxxer groups – suggesting that the AstraZeneca vaccine causes monkeypox. Why this is not true, you can read in a separate text.