The current monkeypox outbreak has not yet caused mass hysteria throughout the globe but there is enough false information doing the rounds on social media to cause concern.
The latest stories circulating on social media suggest the outbreak of monkeypox is in fact shingles, while some others believe the flare-up is due to an adverse effect of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccination, and is being covered up.
Don Vinh, an associate professor in McGill University’s Division of Experimental Medicine, in Montreal, dismissed these claims, saying the shingles and monkeypox diseases are caused by viruses from different families.
“There are significant differences between monkeypox and shingles. Although both are viruses, they belong to different viral families.”
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an infectious diseases fellow at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, added,…
