New Delhi: There is no scientific evidence to back a widely shared claim on social media that Covid boosters can lead to HIV, a supposition attributed to French virologist Luc Montagnier, say experts.

Montagnier, a joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that can lead to AIDS, died earlier this month. Since then, several Twitter users have shared a quote attributed to him which reads, “For those of you that have taken the third dose, go and take a test for AIDS. The results may surprise you. Then sue your government.

There is no evidence he made this claim or that Covid boosters make a person susceptible to HIV infection, several experts told PTI.

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