An Italian court seized by an individual opposed to anti-COVID vaccination has ordered the laboratory analysis of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, we learned on Saturday from the plaintiff’s lawyer.
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The court in Pesaro, near San Marino (east), has commissioned an expert to identify the content of Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech messenger RNA anti-COVID vaccines. These analyzes will be carried out in September, lawyer Nicoletta Morante told AFP.
According to her, this is “a first in Italy, and perhaps in Europe”.
The complainant, who has already contracted the disease in the past, is a fifty-year-old working in particular in education, and whose activity in Italy is subject to the vaccination obligation. Refractory, he is under administrative sanctions, according to Me Morante.
In addition to “he asks to establish whether vaccinating people cured of Covid satisfies the good administration of medicine”, he wants to know what proteins are present in these vaccines and whether they contain “excipients for non-human or dangerous use for health,” according to a summary of the complaint seen by AFP.
The messenger RNA treatment allows the cells to reproduce proteins present in the virus – the “antigens” -, in order to accustom the immune system to recognize and neutralize it.
In support of the civil complaint presented to Pesaro, the lawyer produced the opinion of a medical researcher, presented as an independent virologist, who believes that mRNA vaccines do not fulfill the protective function for which they are injected. . These vaccines, he wrote in the complaint, “do not have the declared functional conformation” and the immune response they engender “is ineffective”.
According to the WHO, more than 12 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered worldwide and 60% of the population has received two doses.
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