Health & medicine fact checks

وفاة أول رجل عربي يخوض تجربة الحمل والولادة

Publisher’s rating: مش حقيقي

The review says posts circulating on May 24, 2025, falsely claimed that an Algerian named Ahmed al-Fateh had died. It identifies the person in the videos as Ukrainian content creator Vitalii Semenov, says the pregnancy videos were satirical, and reports that his Instagram post on May 25 contradicted the death rumor.

Ratusan siswa sekolah sakit setelah menyantap makan bergizi gratis (MBG) terkontaminasi bangkai ular.

Publisher’s rating: Salah

Sultratop.com traced the photo to a January 6, 2025 report about students eating in Depok, Indonesia. It found that the reported incident involving more than 100 children who became ill after eating contaminated food occurred in Mokama, India—not in Indonesia as the viral claim implied.

Die Masern sind eine harmlose Kinderkrankheit

Publisher’s rating: Falsch und irreführend. Die Masern können einen schweren Verlauf nehmen und tödlich enden

A lab leak is "the true origins" of COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

A lab leak “is now the leading theory among scientists” for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

全国の知事がワクチンを接種していないのに、国民には打たせている?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The circulated table reflected governors’ vaccination status around May 2021, when healthcare workers and older people were being prioritized. The review says all governors listed in the table were subsequently vaccinated.

Früher hatten alle die Masern, das war ganz normal

Publisher’s rating: Irreführend. Bevor es die Masern-Impfung gab, war es zwar üblich, dass Kinder daran erkrankten, jedoch starben auch viele daran.

Multiple agencies “have all agreed that NIH research almost certainly led to the pandemic.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Die Masern-Impfung löst Autismus aus

Publisher’s rating: Falsch. Groß angelegte Studien zeigen, dass es keinen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Auftreten von Autismus und der Masern-Impfung gibt.

سرطان یک تجارت است و روش‌های رایج درمان سرطان مانند شیمی‌درمانی و رادیوتراپی مضرند.

Publisher’s rating: شاخ‌دار

「大阪万博にマラリア蚊など様々なウィルスを持った蚊が撒き散らされた」?

Publisher’s rating: 誤り

The review says the insects reported at the Osaka Expo were chironomid midges, not mosquitoes. It cites an expert who identified the sampled insects as chironomids and said they do not bite people or pose a significant risk of transmitting disease; therefore, the claim that malaria or other viruses were being spread at the Expo is unsupported. [S1]

ریختن نوشابه روی گوشت خوک باعث بیرون آمدن انگل‌ها از آن می‌شود

Publisher’s rating: شاخ‌دار

‘Stop met ijs leggen na een blessure’

Publisher’s rating: Waar

Bill Gates Tulis Artikel ''Vaksinasi untuk Mengurangi Populasi Dunia'' di Tahun 2011

Publisher’s rating: salah

درمان لکنت زبان و سایر بیماری‌ها با روش «شبیه‌سازی ذهن» و ثبت رکورد جهانی گینس برای طولانی‌ترین صف درمان

Publisher’s rating: شاخ‌دار

Fenugreek can eliminate diabetes in 6 weeks.

Publisher’s rating: User's claim is false

Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. […] For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. [...] It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.

Publisher’s rating: Unproven

DW describes Quay’s assertion that Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer while president and that the public was uninformed as unproven. The review says Biden’s 2024 health summary did not mention the small nodule found during a routine physical exam the previous week; the excerpt does not establish when the cancer began.

Ich würde gerne wissen, wie Dr. Jill Biden Krebs im fünften Stadium übersehen hat. Oder ist dies eine weitere Vertuschung?

Publisher’s rating: Falsch

The review says the claim of “stage five” cancer is inaccurate: prostate cancer staging under the TNM system is generally described from I to IV, and Biden’s Gleason score of 9 is a different classification. It also notes that Jill Biden’s doctorate is in education, not medicine, and concludes that the allegation she overlooked his cancer is misleading.

Prostatakrebs ist der im Anfangsstadium am einfachsten zu diagnostizierende Krebs. [...] Denn selbst bei der aggressivsten Form dauert es ohne Behandlung 5-7 Jahre, bis er Metastasen bildet. [...] Es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass er während seiner Amtszeit im Weißen Haus bereits von der Diagnose Prostatakrebs wusste und das amerikanische Volk nicht darüber informiert hat.

Publisher’s rating: Unbelegt

DW says the allegation that Biden knew of his prostate cancer during his presidency and concealed it is unsupported. It notes that reporting and a book examining his health from 2021 to 2024 did not address the current prostate cancer diagnosis.

Former President Joe Biden’s cancer is a form of “turbo cancer” caused by mRNA vaccines.

Publisher’s rating: False