On January 28, 2021, Facebook user Paata Zaqaidze published a video, in which Galina Kirilicheva, head of the Laboratory of Bacteriology at the Academician Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex, gives a presentation on vaccination. The speaker states in the video, that 1. None of the vaccines is safe and it may result in deterioration of children’s health and complications; 2. A human body has self-healing ability, while vaccination worsens its ecology and causes various serious diseases; 3. Vaccines can become a weapon of mass destruction and represent the „optimal tool to microchip the population“. Based on the ideas expressed in the video, the author of the Facebook post tries to prove that vaccination is dangerous for people.
The idea expressed in the video by the head of Moscow Laboratory of Bacteriology, as if vaccination is dangerous to human health, is wrong: 1. Vaccines do not cause children’s health problems. 2. The claim, as if measles and rubella vaccines cause cancer and leukemia, is false and is not supported by scientific evidence. 3. The claim, as if vaccines are the weapon of mass destruction and aim to microchip people, represents a widely-spread conspiracy theory.
It is noteworthy that the video, in which the head of the Laboratory of Bacteriology is speaking, is a fragment of conference held in the conference room of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) on June 10, 2010, entitled „To the issue of recognition of genocide of the Russian people“. The conference was organized by Russian public movement „Renaissance. Golden Age “, established by academician Nikolai Levashov. Levashov, who also participated in the conference, is marked by nationalistic and anti-Semitic sentiments. Furthermore, he spread conspiracy theories on vaccines, and noted that he could treat any disease with the power of his mind. The organization states in the video published on its personal YouTube channel in 2012, that Levashov „passed away under the influence of genetic, wave and radiation weapon“.
Vaccines do not cause health problems
Kirilicheva states in the video that there are no safe vaccines, accordingly, mass vaccination causes sharp deterioration of children’s health and various complications. In fact, before a vaccine is approved and licensed for use, clinical trials are conducted, the risk factors are evaluated, possible side effects are identified, a vaccine’s safety and efficacy are evaluated.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published questions frequently asked by parents concerning children’s vaccination. To a parent’s question “How do we know vaccines aren’t causing long-term health problems?”, the center responds that scientists are working to identify risk factors that may cause conditions, such as canсer, stroke, heart disease, and autoimmune diseases, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. Moreover, thousands of studies have already been done with the view to examining hundreds of potential risk factors. None of the studies has revealed vaccination as a risk factor.
In addition, the Center notes that before the vaccine is licenzed, its safety is evaluated during clinical trials and is continually monitored. Moreover, there is not a valid biological reason to believe that vaccines can cause any serious long-term effect. More than 50 years of experience with using vaccines shows that the likelihood of unexpectable long-term problems caused by a vaccine, is very low
Measles and rubella vaccines do not cause cancer and leukemia
In her speech, Kirilicheva relied on the anti-vaxxer pediatrician Robert Mendelsohn’s idea, according to which „our bodies have incredible self-healing abilities“. According to the speaker, vaccination worsens ecology of the human body. In addition, according to her, adaptation systems of the human body cannot bear the burden, and eventually, it may develop a serious disease. Kirilicheva noted that „we changed measles and rubella to cancer and leukemia“.
American pediatrician Robert Mendelsohn, who refered to himself as „medical heretic“, opposed vaccination and claimed that vaccines do more harm than good. In a medical newsletter (The People’s Doctor) published in 1978, Mendelsohn states that vaccines caused broad variety of diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer.
According to a study published on the website of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is not linked to the risk of leukemia.
to the information of the World Health Organization, in 2000-2018, measles vaccination have decreased global measles deaths by 73%. At the same period, measles vaccination prevented deaths of 23.2 million people worldwide. For comparison, before the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963 and its widespread practise, epidemics occurred almost every 2-3 years, resulting in 2.6 million measles deaths each year.
As for the importance of rubella vaccine, as a result of expanding global coverage of vaccine use, detected rubella cases decreased by 97% in 2018 (14 621 cases in 151 countries), as compared to 2000 (670 894 cases in 102 countries).
It is also wrong to assume that it is better to be immunized through natural disease than through vaccines. According to the World Health Organization, the immune response to vaccine is identical to the response produced as a result of natural infection. However, natural infection can cause serious problems, such as Haemophilus influenzae type b, birth defects caused by congenital rubella infection, liver cancer from hepatitis B virus or death from measles.
The claim, as if vaccines are a weapon of mass destruction, is a conspiracy theory
Kirilicheva states that vaccines may become a weapon of mass destruction. According to her, based on their mass character, vaccines represent the optimal tool to microchip the population. In fact, Kirilicheva’s claim, as if vaccines aim to microchip and destroy the people, is a conspiracy theory. Depopulation and chipping are often linked to Bill Gates, whose name is also mentioned by the author of the Facebook post. This allegation is false and has already been checked by Myth Detector.
According to the World Health Organization, it is technically impossible for vaccines to contain microchips. In addition, vaccines are developed and produced with observance of a very restricted setting.
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