Viruses have been definitively proven to exist. There is an immense amount of evidence to support the germ theory of disease.
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Logically→ Consuming bottle gourd will help cure chronic heart ailments.
Limited clinical evidence suggests bottle gourd as a cure for heart diseases. More research is required to assert its medicinal properties.
Logically→ Rife machine’s electromagnetic therapy can cure cancer
According to medical research, Rife machine is not found to be effective in getting rid of cancer cells. Patients have been advised to not use it.
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Logically→ Pride celebrations led to the outbreak of Monkeypox.
No outbreaks of monkeypox have been linked to or traced back to Pride events.
Poynter→ What we know about how monkeypox is spreading — and what we still don’t know
As monkeypox cases mount and the disease spreads, some people might have déjà vu — here comes another potentially life-disrupting virus. Although monkeypox first surfaced more than six decades ago, […] The post What we know about how monkeypo
Logically→ Fast-growing tumors are a result of needle biopsies performed on ordinary tumors.
Needle biopsies do not spread cancer; they are used to collect a sample of cancerous cells. Studies confirm that needle seeding rarely occurs.
Logically→ The poliovirus discovered in the U.K. is a new variant resulting from the polio vaccines modified by Bill Gates in 2000.
Logically→ Cases of paralysis from the polio outbreak in the early 20th century were caused by the insecticide DDT.
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Logically→ The monkeypox virus can mutate as rapidly as COVID-19.
Monkeypox is a DNA virus and SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus. DNA viruses are less likely to undergo significant mutations.
Logically→ Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease.
Public health experts worldwide agree that sexual contact is not needed for the spread of the monkeypox virus.
Logically→ Angela Merkel has Kuru, a rare disease caused by cannibalism.
The former German Chancellor suffered from dehydration in 2019, which gave her tremors or muscle jerks. She does not have Kuru.
Logically→ Governments are using nanotechnology to create mosquitoes and spread disease.
Genetically modified mosquitoes have been created to prevent diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and malaria; not to spread or develop them.
Logically→ The BBC has admitted HIV is used to make the COVID-19 vaccines.
A BBC documentary shows the safe use of an HIV protein in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. This particular vaccine trial was later abandoned.
Logically→ There’s an outbreak of gastrointestinal virus affecting dogs in the northeast of England.
While there is a seasonal rise of gastroenteritis in dogs, the information being shared is from 2020, and is not accurate.
Logically→ Omicron is leading the COVID-19 pandemic to the endemic stage.
Expert virologists have indicated that it is difficult to predict the endemic stage for the virus, given the high infection rates around the globe.
Logically→ Vaccines are a means of population control.
Vaccines are the means of providing active acquired immunity against diseases.
Logically→ Manitoba chief microbiologist and laboratory specialist says 56 percent of positive COVID-19 cases are not infectious.
RT-PCR test results may show inaccurate results if not taken or read properly. No evidence suggests that 56 percent of cases are not infectious.
Logically→ Two cases of monkeypox have been identified in the United Kingdom.
The World Health Organisation stated that two cases of monkeypox, both from the same household, had been detected on May 25 and 31 in North Wales.
Logically→ The Delta variant is 2.5 times more likely to lead to hospitalization than the Alpha variant.
Early data released by Public Health England suggests an increased risk of hospitalization with the Delta variant compared to the Alpha variant.
Logically→ Excessive steam inhalation can cause black fungus in COVID-19 patients.
Steaming therapy uses to soothe and relieve cold symptoms. Studies on oversteaming can cause black fungus in COVID-19 patients are in progress.
Logically→ Applying cow dung all over the body can prevent one from contracting COVID-19.
There is no evidence that cow dung or cow urine can cure COVID-19.
Logically→ The government of India has recommended increasing the duration between two doses of Covishield due to a shortage in vaccines.
Amid a shortage of the Covishield vaccine in India, the NTAGI recommends increasing the dosage to 12-16 weeks to strengthen the vaccine's efficacy.
Logically→ Fully vaccinated individuals in the U.S do not have to wear masks indoors.
The CDC suggested that fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks, but must follow local and state guidance on masks and social distancing.
Logically→ Indian spiritual leader Baba Ramdev has been hospitalized and is on ventilator support.
An old image of Baba Ramdev hospitalized has gone viral on social media. The post falsely claims that he is on ventilator support in the hospital.
Logically→ COVID-19-induced black fungus cases reported in Delhi hospitals.
Cases of mucormycosis induced after COVID-19 recovery have increased in Delhi and other Indian places in May 2021.
Logically→ COVID-19 lockdowns have led to the deaths of about 228,000 children in South Asia.
UNICEF estimated 228,000 deaths among South Asian children in 2020 due to cuts in the availability and use of public health services, not lockdowns.
Logically→ A single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can nearly halve the transmission of the virus.
The results are restricted to Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca vaccines and in the case of passing on the infection to household contacts.
Logically→ Indian State governments are receiving money from the PM CARES Fund to build new oxygen plants.
The center allocated PM CARES funds to the Central Medical Services Society for installing PSA oxygen plants Pan India. Not to the state governments.
Logically→ Maharashtra is receiving funds from the PM CARES Fund for setting up oxygen plants.
The Center allocated PM CARES Fund to the CMSS, a Center's autonomous body, to install PSA oxygen plants across India, not to the state governments,
Logically→ A triple mutation variant of COVID-19 has emerged in India.
Amid the COVID-19 surge in India, B.1.618 - a new variant of SARS-CoV-2- has been identified in West Bengal.
Logically→ The practice of wearing facemasks can cause hypoxia, compromising safety from COVID-19.
Wearing a facemask for longer periods may be uncomfortable but there is no scientific evidence to prove that it can cause hypoxia.
Logically→ A Stanford University study concluded that face masks worn to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 do not work.
The study has been rejected by Stanford. The University has clarified that the author Baruch Vainshelboim is not affiliated with them.
Logically→ The U.S. documentary Plandemic has the support of at least 27,000 medical doctors.
The documentary "Plandemic" spreads harmful misinformation on COVID-19. There is no evidence that doctors support it.
Logically→ There are more cases of COVID-19 among children and young people than the rest of the population in India.
Children and youth ventured out of their homes & interacted more publicly in recent months after the pandemic protocols were relaxed compared to 2020.
Logically→ The South African COVID-19 variant is in 18 countries in Europe.
Several countries in the EU have now seen the strain of coronavirus that was first reported in South Africa in December.
Logically→ 5G can be used to shoot weaponized EMFs and produce deadly viruses.
5G technology cannot contribute to constructing deadly viruses. The publisher has retracted the study.
Logically→ Seasonal flu was renamed COVID.
COVID-19 is not the same as the seasonal flu. COVID-19 is caused by the 2019 coronavirus, also known as SARS-CoV-2.
Logically→ A cleric from Furfura Sharif in Bengal said that he wished 50 crore Hindus in India would die of coronavirus.
A snippet available on Twitter shows him saying this, but since the original video was taken down we cannot ascertain if this was taken out of context
Logically→ Herpesyl cure herpes.
There is no cure for herpes. The claims mentioned are advertisements for the drug and are not reliable sources.