{"id":425,"date":"2022-11-23T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fakenews.pl\/en\/?p=425"},"modified":"2022-11-23T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:27:46","slug":"covid-19-vaccination-does-not-result-in-a-positive-hiv-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fakenews.pl\/en\/health\/covid-19-vaccination-does-not-result-in-a-positive-hiv-test\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccination does not result in a positive HIV test"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo of the late Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who became famous for his complicity in the discovery of HIV, has been very popular on social media. It illustrates a post with a quote attributed to the virologist that after receiving the third dose of COVID-19<\/a> vaccine, people should get tested for AIDS. The second part of the statement suggests that the result will be positive. In fact, there is no credible evidence that Luc Montagnier said that, and available COVID-19<\/a> vaccines do not result in a positive HIV test.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This false information has spread all over the world. It was refuted by\u00a0Reuters<\/a>,\u00a0Lead Stories<\/a>,\u00a0Bolivia Verifica<\/a>,\u00a0Turkish\u00a0Teyit<\/a>, Indian\u00a0The Economic Times<\/a>\u00a0or Greek\u00a0Ellinika Hoaxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Luc Montagnier<\/h2>\n

Luc Montagnier was a French virologist who received the 2008\u00a0Nobel Prize<\/a>\u00a0in Physiology and Medicine for his complicity in the discovery of HIV. We wrote about him in the context of another statement incorrectly attributed to him (Luc Montagnier said that all vaccinated people would die within two years? That is not true<\/a>). In final years of life, Montagnier supported the anti-vaccine movement with statements inconsistent with current medical knowledge, for instance by claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are\u00a0responsible<\/a>\u00a0for the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2. Montagnier was also the founder of the controversial\u00a0Chronimed<\/a> association, whose doctors used to prescribe antibiotics and antifungal, antiparasitic, antiviral and chelating agents (for the removal of heavy metals) without medical indications, to allegedly treat children with autism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAIDS test\u201d<\/h2>\n

While searching for the source of this statement, we did not come across any reliable confirmation that Luc Montagnier was the author of these words. Moreover, it is also unlikely for another reason.\u00a0Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).\u00a0However, HIV infection is not synonymous with the development of AIDS \u2013 asymptomatic HIV infection can last\u00a0<\/strong>8-10 years<\/strong><\/a>, and with recent developments in medicine, early antiretroviral treatment may\u00a0<\/strong>prevent AIDS from developing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0For this reason, diagnostic tests are performed for the presence of HIV, and not for the disease caused by the virus. The virologist who discovered HIV must have been aware of this, hence it is unlikely that he would use the phrase \u201cAIDS test\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Source of the Quote<\/h2>\n

The described image has been widely shared, primarily on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, but it can also be found on Twitter or on the\u00a0gloria.tv<\/a> portal. In addition, it has been circulating on a\u00a0German-speaking conspiracy channel<\/a>\u00a0on Telegram associated with the QAnon movement called\u00a0Q+++<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Source: Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To identify its source, we used the reverse image search method, thanks to which we found a similar\u00a0screenshot<\/a>, but cropped differently. It included information that the post had been translated into English from Greek. After translating the contents into Greek, we came across this\u00a0post<\/a>, the original (unedited<\/a>) version of which had been used to create the fake image (as indicated by the specific punctuation and publication date.)<\/p>\n

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Original facebook post\u00a0 (edited version)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After some time, the misinformation began to live his own life, and this narrative was used by e.g.\u00a0Jacek Wilk<\/a>\u00a0or Rafa\u0142 Piech.<\/p>\n

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Source: Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It also appeared several times on Telegram, for instance on the following channels:\u00a0Ocali\u0107 \u017cycie<\/a>,\u00a0STRA\u017bNICY WOLNO\u015aCI<\/a>,\u00a0Rebel24<\/a>,\u00a0C-19 Bitwa o prawd\u0119<\/a>,\u00a0OSTATNI SPRAWIEDLIWI<\/a>,\u00a0Anielskie Siostry Jasnowidzki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reiner Fuellmich’s “Non-parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on the Coronavirus”<\/h2>\n

Rafa\u0142 Piech, the president of Siemianowice \u015al\u0105skie, regularly publishes videos containing disinforming content about vaccines on the website of his foundation called Polska Jest Jedna<\/em>. In\u00a0one of them<\/a>,\u00a0he discusses the increase in HIV infections in Poland and recalls Montagnier’s alleged statement. His video has been viewed more than 26 thousand times and was also cited by the\u00a0Wolnosc.TV<\/a> portal.<\/p>\n

In the recording, however, Piech did not limit himself to referring to Montagnier’s alleged statement only. Later on in the video, he also refers to an\u00a0online conference<\/a>\u00a0of the German self-proclaimed “Non-Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on the Coronavirus” chaired by Reiner Fuellmich (we wrote about him in an article discussing the\u00a0Nuremberg 2.0 project<\/a>). Piech calls the conference participants \u201cexperts who know what they are talking about\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, in the video we can see two lawyers \u2013 the aforementioned Reiner Fuellmich and Todd Callender. The latter refers to measures related to the COVID-19<\/a> pandemic as a global military operation, and calls vaccination programmes a coordinated genocide. Apart from them, one of the remaining participants is Wolfgang Wodarg, a doctor and politician who became famous for employing\u00a0Gert Postel<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an impostor claiming to be a doctor (who was in fact a postman) \u2013 as a public health officer. Wodarg is also the author of the book entitled Faked Pandemics<\/em>. Both he and Fuellmich belong to the German party\u00a0die Basis<\/a>, founded in 2020, whose members are known for spreading conspiracy theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Fuellmich asked Callender about the reason behind the increase in the number of excessive deaths:<\/p>\n

[Reiner Fuellmich] I saw a little video clip, in which you were interviewed. I forgot who it was that interviewed you but you told them about the incredible, well should I say excess mortality, and I don’t know what caused this excess mortality. It must have something to do with the so-called vaccinations, of course<\/strong>. It may be lipid nanoparticles, maybe the Spike protein. I don’t know. What do you know about this?<\/p>\n

[Todd Callender] I do know. It’s not even a question. We’ve figured this out.<\/strong> The lipid nanoparticles, think of them like little bombers, and they are carrying payloads. Those payloads are oligonucleotides, mRNA and synthetic DNA. (…) In order to slip those little bombers pass the humans\u2019 natural immunity, they had to disarm peoples\u2019 natural immunity. They used 3 different HIV proteins: GP120, AD5 as an adjuvant and PP14.<\/strong> (…) What is particularly alarming in terms of all this numbers, excess mortality and morbidity, is that the people that put those three HIV proteins into the shots disarmed peoples\u2019 natural immunity, gave them vaccines and AIDS, and they didn’t give them anything to reverse it. (…) Everybody knows that. The short answer to this whole thing is that everybody that got the shots was given some form or level of AIDS. The ones that got one shot, it seems they have about 30% of natural immunity destroyed. By the time they get three shots, all their natural immunity is completely gone<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Piech refers to this statement by the lawyer, suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the increase in HIV infections. We are to be infected intentionally in order to create the demand for an HIV vaccine. According to Piech, this is all part of a broad conspiracy to make all of us suffer from various diseases, including cancer.<\/p>\n

In July 2022, LegaArtis published a\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0entitled \u201cIf you get a positive test after vaccination and need to be hospitalized, you probably have AIDS\u201d. The article, which looks like a machine translation from a foreign language, contains a statement by the aforementioned lawyer Reiner Fuellmich recorded a few months earlier during the InfoWars show hosted by Alex Jones. In the video, Fuellmich claims that he heard these words in person while interviewing Montagnier a few months before his death.<\/p>\n

Gp120, pp14 and Ad5 Proteins<\/h2>\n

The only factor leading to AIDS is HIV infection. The mere presence of a protein which is also a part of the HIV molecule cannot result in the development of AIDS. Moreover, only one of the 3 proteins mentioned by the lawyer occurs in the HIV molecule \u2013 the gp120<\/strong>.\u00a0Surface glycoprotein (a component of the HIV envelope) plays a key role in infection, enabling the virus molecule to\u00a0enter<\/a>\u00a0the host cell. The gp120 protein is also used as an antigen in\u00a0HIV vaccines<\/a>\u00a0currently under development (its use\u00a0does not pose<\/a>\u00a0any danger).<\/p>\n

The other two molecules mentioned by Callender, which\u00a0do not occur<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0HIV molecule<\/a>, are:<\/p>\n