Posts misrepresent Health Canada statement on DNA in Covid vaccines

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Social media users and websites claim Health Canada acknowledged the presence of harmful DNA in Covid-19 vaccines after an October 2023 paper purportedly confirmed previously undisclosed carcinogenic genetic fragments.

This is misleading; the public health agency told AFP the posts misrepresent its position, and independent experts say the research does not prove the shots are"In what one scientist described as an 'admission of epic proportions,' Health Canada on Thursday confirmed the presence of DNA contamination in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines," says Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine...

"Health Canada has confirmed the presence of a Simian Virus 40 DNA sequence in the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which the manufacturer had not previously disclosed," theEpoch Times quotes Health Canada saying it had confirmed"the presence of the enhancer based on the plasmid DNA sequence submitted by Pfizer."that claims the shot has"billions to hundreds of billions of DNA molecules per dose" -- findings the authors say"extend existing concerns about vaccine safety.

Imperiale confirmed that to AFP on November 1, saying it is"not unexpected that there would be a little bit of DNA" in the shot due to the manufacturing process and that such remnants are"inert" and harmless."Any claims that the presence of the SV40 promoter enhancer sequence is linked to an increased risk of cancer are unfounded," Health Canada said.

."They used a log scale to make the total DNA appear to be much closer to the FDA-recommended limit than it really is." For example, Gorski noted the researchers found the vial with the"very highest concentration of DNA" had"less than one-half the maximum DNA amount recommended by the

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