New alert in the world of antivaccines.
For several weeks, groups skeptical about vaccination against Covid-19 have been worried about a curious phenomenon: “vaccine shedding” (in English, “vaccine shedding”), which would attest to the contagiousness of vaccines.
A theory questioned by several scientists, but which pushes antivax to promote social distancing.
And even - ironically -, according to Vice, wearing a mask.
To read its whistleblowers, the "vaccine excretions" from vaccinated people would be particularly harmful to those around them.
“Vaccinated individuals excrete any of the vaccine particles - whether messenger RNA, genetic material or adenoviruses”, but also the Covid-19 virus and “spike proteins”, summarizes Bryan Ardis, a American chiropractor who specializes in the sale of food supplements fighting against acne.
In a podcast hosted by Lifesite, a religious alternative information site, the man, who identifies himself as a “doctor”, claims that vaccinated people will emit toxic particles through “exhalations, […] perspiration via the pores of the skin ”, as well as“ urine, excretions ”, but also“ semen ”.
Miscarriages, reptiles and dying pets
These excretions, according to Bryan Ardis, “will create antibodies which will attack your own cells, attack your DNA”.
An idea also taken up by a site entitled "Truth Unmasked" ("The Truth Unmasked"), where several people claiming to be doctors or nurses assure that the vaccine would cause autoimmune diseases, forcing the organs to destroy themselves.
A 20-page document, edited by anti-vaccine osteopath Sherri Tenpenny, a well-followed activist on social networks, speaks of “translation” to discuss the presumed dangerous consequences of the vaccine.
In anti-vaccine Facebook groups, rumors are roaring, especially among English-speaking internet users.
“Tens of thousands of cases of secretions / transmissions occur regularly, not to mention massive cases of stroke, people gone blind, miscarriages, dying pets, menstrual cycles of affected women, heart attacks, and many other horrible side effects of these experimental poisons… ”, details Sam, an Australian very active in the group“ Covid19 vaccine discussion group ”.
In English-speaking anti -ax groups, several people are calling for distance from vaccinated people.
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Ed, a Filipino who questions the existence of the pandemic, goes even further.
According to him, the vaccine causes effects similar to molting in an animal.
"These secretions (similar to those of insects, reptiles), mean that they allow something innate (your original state, skin, shell) to disintegrate and be replaced by something that pushed below, ”he explains on Facebook, links to disinformation sites in support.
"Stay away from the vaccinated"
Faced with these presumed risks, some activists recommend practicing social distancing in the presence of vaccinated people. “When you pass people who have been vaccinated, you have dizziness, pain, miscarriages, and even loss of blood. There are plenty of testimonials to this effect. Stay away from vaccinated people, ”says Bernestine, still in the same group.
Other skeptics seek advice.
“My father had his vaccine a month ago, and I promised to visit him to allow my mother out of her house for the first time in two years.
I haven't had a vaccine, but I'm afraid it will secrete it on me, ”worries Katherine, an American.
The rumor is so persistent that a Florida school recently became controversial after banning its teachers from getting vaccinated.
Its principal believed that vaccinated people caused "negative effects" on unvaccinated people nearby.
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According to the Vice site, some anti-vaccines (which are often also anti-masks), even come to wonder if it would not be useful to "wear a mask near the vaccinated people", in order to avoid these. excretions.
Former American researcher Judy Mikovits, known for having participated in a conspiratorial documentary on the pandemic, also praises the merits of a "colloidal silver mask" against the Covid-19 virus and "vaccine excretions ".
A strange shift in gear for the fiercely anti-mask activist, recalls Vice.
"It's just rubbish"
In the camp of health authorities and vaccination experts, it is the shock.
“It's like asking me if I thought someone vaccinated might develop ray vision.
No, vaccine shedding is not possible, ”says Dr. Paul Offit, member of the committee responsible for the evaluation of vaccines within the Food and Drug Administration, to the site FactCheck.
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“The spike protein is just a protein. It only produces antibodies against the virus. You don't shed the protein, you don't shed the antibodies. We only produce antibodies to a protein. So it can't affect someone else, because the proteins don't spread, ”he thunders. Contacted by Le Parisien, the French virologist Yves Gaudin believes that it is "just rubbish". "My arms are falling away", he slips, saying to himself "too overwhelmed to go into details".
Same story with Pfizer, one of the vaccines involved.
“It does not contain any virus particles.
As no virus is produced in the body, there is no excretion produced in the human body.
The vaccine cannot be inhaled through excretions and can only enter the human body via a dose administered by an intramuscular injection ”, explains the laboratory.
On Facebook, the rumor of infectious vaccines is also spreading in France.
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In France, the theory of “vaccine excretion” is also spreading, in particular via alternative platforms assimilating the vaccine to a “biological weapon” which “spreads from one person to another”. The idea has already been popularized by controversial geneticist Alexandra Henrion-Caude, star of the conspiracy movement. In a video circulating since January, she ensures that those vaccinated against influenza emit "more particles", and believes that the vaccine against Covid-19 works on the same principle. An assertion, again, unfounded.
