Does the Corona vaccine contain lung cells from a Caucasian male fetus that was aborted?

Social media users, especially WhatsApp groups, circulate a video in English with Arabic subtitles, in which a woman speaks, and says that the new Corona virus vaccine contains lung cells from a Caucasian male fetus, who was aborted at 14 weeks of pregnancy, so what is this true?

The video mixes many allegations, and until we discuss it methodically we will put it in questions and answers.

When was the video broadcast?

The video was first broadcast live on Facebook on November 15, according to a special report on it published by "Reuters" (Reuters).

Today we entered the original video link on Facebook;

But we found it deleted.

What vaccine does the video talk about?

The video talks about the vaccine, which was developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in cooperation with the University of Oxford.

What is the name of this vaccine?

The name of the vaccine is "HDX1S" (ChAdOx1-S9). Also, this vaccine is known as "AZD1222" (AZD1222).

What did the video claim?

The spokeswoman shows a picture on the computer screen of the cover for the "HDX1S" Corona vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca, then moves to a window showing a search page for "AZD122222", which says that we "used" the direct RNA sequence to analyze "H ADX1S in human cell strains MRC-5″ (MRC-5) and A549″ (A549).

The screen then moves to the Wikipedia page for further research on this reference to "MRC-5″, which indicates that it is a cell line" that was originally developed from research extracting lung tissue from a Caucasian male fetus that was aborted at the age of 14 Week ".

"There is one thing for sure that it contains the lung tissue of a 14-week-old Caucasian fetus that was aborted," the spokeswoman says, addressing her audience about the vaccine formula.

Does the Corona HDX1S vaccine contain lung tissue from a 14-week-old Caucasian fetus that was aborted?

no never.

AstraZeneca confirmed to Reuters by email that its vaccine was not developed using MRC-5 cell lines.

For his part, Dr. Michael Head, a researcher in global health at the University of Southampton, told Reuters that there are no "embryonic cells" (foetal cells) used in any vaccine production process.

But the spokeswoman in the video showed a study talking about a Corona vaccine and embryonic cells?

The study shown by the spokeswoman is an independent study led by scientists at the University of Bristol to test the potential effectiveness of a vaccine before human trials.

The study tested the effect of the vaccine when it was introduced to human cells, and this is completely different from developing a vaccine, where human cells are a component in the final product, and this did not happen.

What exactly are MRC-5 cells?

Well, this question needs to be elaborated: These cells are "cell lines" grown in the laboratory from primary cell culture originally taken from an embryo.

For the MRC-5 specifically, it was taken from a Caucasian embryo that was voluntarily aborted in the 1960s.

Another cell line called WI-38 was also taken from an embryo that was aborted in the 1960s.

Also, one of the cell lines used is T-Rex 293 HEK cells, which refer to human embryonic kidney cells.

By cell lines, we mean that the original cell is cultivated so that it replicates and multiplies, sometimes indefinitely, as it arises from primary cell cultures.

And the primary cultivation begins directly from cells, tissues or animal organs, according to scientific sources.

MRC-5 cells, and other cell lines, were taken from tissue samples from embryos that were aborted in the 1960s and 1970s, and the cells have been grown in laboratories around the world since then.

It must be understood that these embryos were not aborted for the purpose of producing vaccines, confirms Gary MacLean, professor of molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University, to Reuters, who said, "It is important to note that the embryos were not aborted for use in research and development."

A report published in 2015 on ABC News, which addressed the issue of using embryonic cell lines in the production of vaccines in general, confirms what we have mentioned.

A spokeswoman for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quotes, "The abortions that occurred decades ago were not carried out with the intention of producing vaccines."

What is meant here is that the abortion occurred for other reasons, and then the cells were taken.

Scientists did not abort fetuses until they conducted their experiments, and any promotion or claim that would benefit this is false and deceit.

So - according to an ABC News report - the original cells were obtained more than 50 years ago, and preserved, according to strict federal guidelines by the American Type Culture Collection.

Why were these cells preserved?

These cells are being used in experiments around the world, by continuously growing them.

While living human cells can only divide about 50 times, these embryonic cells have been genetically modified so that they can divide an infinite number of times.

"This is why we can use cells that we harvested (decades ago) today," says Bill Lott, a virologist at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation of Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Australian ABC.

"They are not the actual parent cells. They have been immortalized and then multiplied for decades," he adds.

What does the HDX1S vaccine consist of?

What does the name ChAdOx1-S stand for?

• Ch indicates that it was taken from a "chimpanzee".

• Ad refers to it as an "adenovirus".

• Oxford University of Oxford

This vaccine is a weak and unable to reproduce version of a common "adenovirus" virus (Adenovirus) taken from chimpanzees, and this virus was designed to contain instructions for creating a spike protein for the emerging corona virus, whose scientific name is SARS-Cove-2, The causative agent of Covid-19 disease.

Adenoviruses are common, cause a range of diseases, and can cause symptoms similar to cold, fever, sore throat, bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, and pink eye (conjunctivitis), according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An article published in Nature says that the vaccine used T-Rex 293 HEK cells in the "virus propagation stage".

Dr David Matthews, from the University of Bristol and co-author of the vaccine study, told Reuters.

“Many virus vaccines are manufactured into cell strains derived from embryos, and then the vaccine is purified from these cells to exceptionally high standards. Most of these cell lines (including MRC-5 cells) were derived from tissue samples taken from embryos , Which was aborted in the 1960s and 1970s, and cells have been grown in laboratories around the world since then. "

Gary McLean, professor of molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University, told Reuters that this vaccine will also be "purified" of any contaminants before using it on humans, and added, "The AstraZeneca vaccine requires the production of an adenoviral vector in these cells, and then it is purified before it is given to people." .

So what's the bottom line?

There is no lung tissue of a male fetus that was aborted on the Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine.

The study referring to MRC-5 cells, which was mentioned in the video, was part of preclinical research using embryonic cell lines, and was not included in the manufacture of the vaccine itself.

Embryonic cell lines are being used to develop vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines.

But the vaccine goes through a purification process before obtaining the final product, and these cells do not form one of the components of the vaccine.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for Corona does not contain lung tissue from a 14-week-old Caucasian fetus that was aborted, nor does it contain any fetal tissue.