Is it true that the COVID-19 virus contains DNA from the HIV virus?

There is no HIV DNA in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus that causes COVID-19. This claim arose from a misinterpretation of scientific data and is not supported by the scientific community.

Prof Luc Montagnier claims that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a Chinese lab in Wuhan where they were trying to make a vaccine against HIV. To do this, DNA from the HIV virus would have been inserted into a coronavirus. And that virus would have escaped. This is a hypothesis that is not based on any scientific observation.

From the analysis of the COVID-19 virus, most scientists conclude that this virus arose through natural mutations of the first coronaviruses. Luc Montagnier is an 88-year-old French professor who received the Nobel Prize in 2008 as co-discoverer of the HIV virus. In recent years, he has been in the media as a proponent of homeopathy and opponent of vaccination.

The claim that there is DNA from the HIV virus in the COVID-19 virus is unfounded and has been thoroughly refuted by genetic analyses and scientific research. SARS-CoV-2 and HIV are two different viruses with different genetic structures and evolutionary paths.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8050477/

Author: Prof. Dr. Dirk Devroey - Latest update: 2024-07-15 - Copyright: Clinifacts 2024