"This ‘Wuhan market' just happened to be near one of the world's few Biosafety Level 4 labs in a Communist Chinese country that lied about the pandemic while it spread around the world," tweeted Kyle Becker, the CEO and chief editor of his eponymous conservative news website. While the studies found the virus most likely spilled over into humans at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in 2019, a number of commentators from conservative US news outlets, as well as from anti-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) publications, took to social media to suggest otherwise. ( Reuters: Stringer)Ī pair of new studies analysing the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has sparked a fresh wave of debate about whether the initial spread of COVID-19 could be pinned to a live animal market or to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is housed in the city in which the first cases of the disease were reported in December 2019.
"So to use it as evidence that these things change … or get incorporated into our DNA, is presumptive at best, misleading at worst," he said.Įvidence still points to a Wuhan seafood market as the likely source of the COVID-19 outbreak in humans. Stephen Turner, head of Monash University's Department of Microbiology, also raised concerns about the concentrated dose tested, along with the absence of controls for the study's use of cultured cells, which he said "don't represent the tissues of our body". In an email to Fact Check, Archa Fox, an associate professor at the University of Western Australia's School of Molecular Sciences, noted several issues with the design of the study, including that it relied on an artificially high dose of the vaccine.īut in any event, "the fact that something is found in DNA format is neither here nor there … it was integrated into the genome", she said. "But that simply doesn't happen," she added, explaining that human cells have "myriad mechanisms" to prevent it, and that there were "many experimental tests available to researchers to detect even vanishingly rare retrotransposition events".Įven so, the authors wrote that they did "not know if DNA reverse transcribed from is integrated into the cell genome". She said that if the vaccine had triggered the retrotransposition process "then the other 10,000 mRNAs within the cell should be ending up in the genome too".
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Read our full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic However, inserting that DNA into our genome requires a secondary process called "retrotransposition", which, as experts writing in The Conversation have explained, is exceedingly rare.Īccording to a fact sheet written by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the genetic material contained in mRNA vaccines "never enters the nucleus of your cells, which is where your DNA is kept".Ĭlaims of mRNA vaccines altering human DNA have persisted throughout the pandemic, despite being debunked by fact checkers at Reuters, PolitiFact and AFP.Īs for the latest study, Traude Beilharz, an associate professor and RNA biologist at Monash University, told Fact Check that "the level of evidence for reverse-transcription is low, the evidence for genome integration is non-existent". This is a process whereby RNA ( itself a product of DNA) creates DNA. Published by academics in Sweden, the study purports to show that the "messenger" RNA at the heart of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine can be converted to DNA inside a human cell via "reverse transcription". Not according to three experts consulted by Fact Check, who separately described the latest study as "regrettably weak", " very robust" and "very limited" in its findings.
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"YES THE ‘VACCINE' ALTERS YOUR DNA," read one post in a popular conspiracy forum, viewed more than 30,000 times.įormer TV chef Pete Evans also used his Telegram channel to announce that "mRNA could alter human DNA!", while also sharing an edited extract from the study that suggested this process may "potentially mediate GENOTOXIC SIDE EFFECTS". ( Reuters: David W Cerny)Ĭlaims that COVID-19 jabs can alter human DNA resurfaced this week as vaccine sceptics across social media seized upon the results of a new study to suggest that people receiving the vaccine risked changing or even poisoning their genes.
Anti-vaxxers have claimed a recent study shows mRNA vaccines can damage or alter your DNA.
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