Robert F. Kennedy JR, the best United States official he recently claimed Some religious groups avoid opposite vaccines, pigs and rubella (MMR) because it contains “Fetal residues“And” DNA particles “.
The United States has been in the face of the worst explosions of the Oder Almost 900 cases throughout the country and energetic explosions in several states.
At the same time, Kennedy, secretary of the Health and Social Welfare Department, continues Eoode Trust in vaccines.
So what can we submit about his latest claims?
There are no fetal residues in the MMR vaccine
Kennedy said that “interrupted fetal remains” in MMR vaccines is the reason why many religious people refuse to vaccinate. He referred specifically to Mennonites in Texas, a deeply religious community that was Among the most difficult hits by the current bonfires of the Oder.
Many vaccines work using a compact amount of weakened (weakened) form of the virus or in the case of MMR vaccine, weakened forms of viruses that cause measles, pig and rubella. This gives the immune system a secure opportunity to learn how to recognize and respond to these viruses.
As a result, if a person is later exposed to an actual infection, his immune system can react quickly and effectively, preventing a earnest illness.
Kennedy’s theorem with fetal remains is particularly referred to by the component of the MMR vaccine rose. The rose virus is generally grown in a human cell line known as WI-38which originally comes from a single abortion pulmonary tissue to the plan in the 1960s. This cellular line has been used for decades and has not been used fresh fetal tissue since then.
Some vaccines for other diseasesSuch as OPAX Kurcing, hepatitis of A and rabies, were also made by the cultivation of viruses in the fetal cells.
These cells are used not because of their origin, but because they provide a stable, secure and reliable environment to grow weakened virus. They serve only as an upward benefit for the virus and are not part of the end product.
You can think about cells as factories producing viruses. After growing the virus, it is separated and cleaned as part of a strict process that meets raw safety and quality standards. What remains in the final vaccine is the virus itself and stabilizing agents, but not human cells or fetal tissue.
So the claims about “fetal remains” in the vaccine are false.
It is also worth paying attention to the main religions in the world Allow the use of vaccines Developed from originally derived from fetal tissue, when there are no alternative products available.
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Are there DNA fragments in MMR vaccine?
Kennedy claimed that the reluctance of Mennonites to vaccinate the stems from “religious reservations” to what he described as “a lot of interrupted fetal residues and DNA particles” in the MMR vaccine.
This last statement about the vaccine containing DNA particles is technically true. Trace of quantity DNA fragments From human cell lines used to produce the ingredient of the MMR vaccine rose, it can remain even after cleaning.
However, with this claim there is an implication that these fragments pose a health threat. This is false.
Each DNA that can be present in this vaccine exists in extremely compact amounts, is highly crushed and degraded and is biologically indifferent – that is, that is, This cannot cause harm.
Even if hypothetically intact DNA was present in the vaccine (which is not), he would not have the ability to hurt. One of the common (but unjustified) fears is that foreign DNA can integrate with the own DNA of a given person and change their genes.
The introduction of DNA into human cells in an integration way is very tough. Even when scientists intentionally try to do it, for example in gene therapyRequires precise tools, special virus supply systems and controlled conditions.
It is also critical to remember that our bodies are exposed to foreign DNA Still, through food, bacteria and even our own microbiome. Our immune system routinely digests and gets rid of this material without including it in our genome.
This question was widely studied for decades. Many health organs, including Australia Administration of therapeutic goodsThey were disinformation about perceived residual DNA damage in vaccines.
Ultimately, the idea that crushed DNA in the vaccine can cause genetic damage is false.
Lower line
Despite what Kennedy would believe, there are no fetal remains in the MMR vaccine, and trace amounts of DNA fragments that may remain a health threat.
Evidence shows, however, that vaccines such as MMR vaccine offer excellent protection against deadly and preventive diseases and saved millions of human lives around the world.