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2025-01-31 22:05:52 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 26012DB41998749E13092F4B8EC6D51209C7B84643ACA81CE448D595A34F54E8
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The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine does not contain the Simian Virus 40 (SV40) virus itself: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-vaccine-pfizer-sv40-dna-853343189368 While non-functional fragments of SV40's DNA sequence are used as starting material in vaccine production, these fragments can't alter DNA and are quickly broken down: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-f3c1d54f2d059de0532360d638335e99 https://www.pfizer.com/about/responsibility/misinformation Myth: https://www.contagionlive.com/view/mrna-covid-19-vaccines-and-turbo-cancer-the-latest-myth-that-won-t-disappear SV40: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/fact-check-is-sv40-present-in-experimental-vaccines-7288647 https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/scicheck-covid-19-vaccines-have-not-been-shown-to-alter-dna-cause-cancer/ https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/did-the-polio-vaccine-cause-cancer/
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