The exact ingredients are all well documented. You have to research your particular vaccine by name to find the scientific published data. General statements are the first sign of, misinformation and out right antivaxxer lies.
For example, if you read an argument about aborted fetal cells used in vaccines they should be specific about which vaccines they are talking about. Otherwise they are making blanket statements that do not apply to all vaccines.
Many of the current COVID-19 vaccines under development and final phased testing
used ethically derived cells to resolve this issue and do not deserve to continually be lumped in the same list of vaccines that do still use the strain of cells originally obtained from fetus cells. When one rejects ALL vaccines based on this argument about fetus cells they expose their ignorance of vaccines.
Now I don't like the idea of using vaccines that were developed with the use of aborted fetus cells either but there is more to the story than that so here are a couple of things to add to your consideration:
The race is on to find a vaccine for COVID-19.
The good news is that many of the world’s largest vaccine companies are developing promising vaccine candidates using ethically-derived cells. The bad news is that many of the leading vaccine candidates for the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) are being developed using fetal cell lines that were originally derived from the tissues of aborted babies in the 1970s and 80s.
An example explanation about Fetus cells in vaccines:
Varicella (chickenpox),
rubella (the “R” in the MMR vaccine),
hepatitis A, and one preparation of
rabies vaccine are all made by growing the viruses in fetal embryo fibroblast cells. Fibroblast cells are the cells needed to hold skin and other connective tissue together. The fetal embryo fibroblast cells used to grow vaccine viruses were first obtained from elective termination of two pregnancies in the early 1960s. These same embryonic cells obtained from the early 1960s have continued to grow in the laboratory and are used to make vaccines today. No further sources of fetal cells are needed to make these vaccines.
The reasons that fetal cells were originally used included:
- Viruses need cells to grow and tend to grow better in cells from humans than animals (because they infect humans).
- Almost all cells die after they have divided a certain number of times; scientifically, this number is known as the Hayflick limit. For most cell lines, including fetal cells, it is around 50 divisions; however, because fetal cells have not divided as many times as other cell types, they can be used longer. In addition, because of the ability to maintain cells at very low temperatures, such as in liquid nitrogen, scientists are able to continue using the same fetal cell lines that were isolated in the 1960s.
As scientists studied these viruses in the lab, they found that the best cells to use were the fetal cells mentioned above. When it was time to make a vaccine, they continued growing the viruses in the cells that worked best during these earlier studies.
Even though fetal cells are used to grow vaccine viruses, vaccines do not contain these cells or pieces of DNA that are recognizable as human DNA. People can be reassured by the following:
- When viruses grow in cells, the cells are killed because in most cases the new viruses burst the cells to be released.
- Once the vaccine virus is grown, it is purified, so that cellular debris and and growth reagents are removed.
- During this process of purification, any remaining cellular DNA is also broken down. To learn more about DNA and vaccine, visit the “Vaccine ingredients – DNA” page.
As to what ingredients are in a vaccine, it depends on which vaccine.
FLUXELVAX QUAD can be researched. That is the flu vaccine that I just received. This will be a completely different list than what is in the Moderna mRNA vaccine. So making blanket statements about ingredients of vaccines is a sure sign you are reading or listening to deliberate liars. Stay sharp people and use that common sense and those research skills you learned in school.
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