On December 14, 2024, a was published post on . According to the author of the post there is a correlation between the two events.
This post spreads false news.
The two articles were originally published in English on September 14th and the December 6 2024 ago The People’s Voicea site which was previously called NewsPunch. This is a site noto per spread note false e unfounded are various topics.
Mpox it is a disease caused by a virus that belongs to the same family as smallpox. On August 14, 2024, the WHO had declared that the epidemic of this disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other central African countries is a “public health emergency of international concern”.
Last September 13, the World Health Organization (WHO) actually prequalified a Vaccine against Mpox, produced by a Danish biotechnology company. Its administration in the Democratic Republic of Congo she left from the following month. Contributing to its distribution was Unicef - the United Nations Children’s Fund – e GAVIa public-private initiative that aims to increase access to vaccines in poor countries.
GAVI, what he purchased 500 thousand doses of vaccine, receives funding also from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationbut that doesn’t mean it’s a “Bill Gates vaccine.”
Despite what the post on X insinuates, there is no relationship between this vaccine against Mpox and the «illness mysterious” appeared in a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, of which they talked the media in recent weeks.
The disease had also caused alarm outside the borders of the African country, because it had caused a relatively high number of deaths, especially among children, and it was suspected that it could be an unknown pathogen. The WHO and local health authorities had taken steps to investigate and find the cause of the disease.
I results Initial analyses, released a week ago, indicated that it was malaria, a disease that is not caused by a virus. On December 17, confirmation arrived from the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo: the unknown disease is a severe form of malariaaggravated by malnutrition.
