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Responding to rising mpox cases in Africa, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern on Aug. 14. Social media posts subsequently repeated a plethora of false or baseless claims, including that COVID-19 vaccines cause the viral disease or that the current outbreak is part of a global conspiracy.
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Human coronaviruses first identified in the 1960s cause common colds. But a viral video misrepresents early research on common coronaviruses and cites unrelated patents to falsely suggest U.S. scientists created the viruses that cause SARS and COVID-19. The video also is not footage of official testimony before the European Parliament.
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Read MoreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that the next “plandemic” in the form of the Marburg virus will soon arrive. Its warning followed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in two African nations – Equatorial Guinea
Read MoreOn 30 March 2014, I received an email from one “Alan Tarica.” He had been reading my work on the psychology of conspiracy theories and decided to send me a link to his detailed website uncovering patterns of a vast
Read MoreSciCheck Digest Since his diagnosis in 1991, NBA player Magic Johnson has repeatedly said he contracted HIV through sexual transmission. But a viral social media post by a spreader of vaccine misinformation falsely claims that Johnson was exposed to the
Read MoreAn anti-vaccine protest in Dublin in January this year Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie FROM MID-OCTOBER, news reports across the world began to describe surging cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a common seasonal respiratory illness that most children are infected
Read MoreSciCheck Digest What appear to be ordinary postmortem blood clots are held up in a viral online video as supposed evidence that there’s a depopulation plot underway using COVID-19 vaccination to kill people. There’s no evidence for this theory. The
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