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Fact Check: Hantavirus infection is not a confirmed side effect of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine
Key takeaways
- The narrative was also shared on X, with one post suggesting the COVID vaccine contained a hantavirus.
- The reference to hantavirus pulmonary infection in the Pfizer document is on the fourth page of the nine-page appendix, titled “List of Adverse Events of Special Interest”.
- However, this is not confirmation that the vaccine causes hantavirus pulmonary infection, a spokesperson for Pfizer said in an email.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Hantavirus pulmonary infection is a disease caused by some hantaviruses, not the Pfizer-Bio NTech COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to widely shared online posts that misrepresented a document listing medical events after inoculation.
“List of Pfizer Covid jab side effects includes Hantavirus pulmonary infection!” said a widely shared May 7 post, opens new tab on Facebook, which shared a screenshot of submissions Pfizer filed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2021 to get a biological license for its vaccine.
The narrative was also shared on X, with one post suggesting the COVID vaccine contained a hantavirus.
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