The Claim:
After her sudden death in January, vaccine conspiracy theorists promoted the unfounded hypothesis that vaccines killed Lisa Marie Presley. What really killed her?
The Facts:
Lisa Marie Presley passed away at 54 after being rushed to a California hospital in cardiac arrest. Predictably, antivaccine conspiracy theorists blamed vaccines. Here, a cardiologist says the vaccines must be pulled off the market. Others tried to take Snopes to task for reporting a lack of evidence of vaccine involvement with her death.
Autopsy reports have been released, and the medical examiner states Lisa Marie Presley passed away due to a bowel obstruction. The obstruction was caused by scar tissue, known as adhesions, resulting from surgery several years prior.
Vaccines typically contain only tiny amounts of the germ or parts of it, not enough to physically block any part of the body, including the intestines, or cause adhesions that would do so. They cannot cause bowel obstruction because they don’t interact with the digestive system in that way. Instead, vaccines help the body develop immunity without causing the disease itself, providing a valuable defense against harmful illnesses.
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