Monkeypox

Fact checks about the monkeypox outbreak, including symptoms, transmission, relation to other diseases and the latest information from public health bodies

30 August 2024

Mpox isn’t misdiagnosed shingles

A video has been widely shared on social media, in which a German doctor claims that shingles cases are being wrongly diagnosed as mpox.

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29 August 2024

No evidence WHO has ordered preparation for mpox ‘mega lockdowns’

A screenshot of a headline circulating online falsely claims that World Health Organisation chiefs have ordered preparation for lockdowns over an mpox strain.

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24 August 2022

Monkeypox simulation event doesn’t mean outbreak was planned

The virus was used in a fictional scenario during a theoretical planning event in March 2021.

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15 August 2022

No evidence shingles ‘renamed’ as monkeypox is a Pfizer vaccine side effect

Shingles and monkeypox are caused by two totally different viruses.

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12 August 2022

Monkeypox is not a government conspiracy to cover up ‘vaccine-induced’ diseases

Thousands of monkeypox infections have been directly confirmed in laboratories, and the Covid-19 vaccines have not caused widespread damage to people’s immune systems

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9 August 2022

Monkeypox isn’t just spread by sexual contact

Monkeypox is thought to be primarily spreading through sexual contact, but there are other ways to catch the disease. A small number of cases in children have been confirmed in the US and Europe.

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29 July 2022

Article about monkeypox living on door handles for 120 years is fake

The altered screenshot also claims the virus “can infect anyone from 5 miles away”.

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29 July 2022

Monkeypox is not a cover-up for the effects of the Covid-19 vaccine

There’s no evidence of any link between the recent monkeypox virus outbreak and the Covid-19 vaccines, which do not damage immune systems, as a video claims.

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10 June 2022

Monkeypox is being detected in countries with and without wild monkeys

The bigger question is why there are outbreaks in countries where it isn’t endemic.

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31 May 2022

Modified chimpanzee virus in AstraZeneca vaccine isn’t linked to monkeypox

Claims that the use of a modified chimpanzee virus in the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine are the cause of monkeypox are untrue.

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