Posted on 10/22/2014 6:24:38 PM PDT by Coleus
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Health Commission has criticised the Government’s planned nation-wide Tetanus vaccination campaign. The statement has expressed deep concern regarding the vaccinations. It says that the campaign leaves many questions unanswered hence the alarm.
This is contained in a media statement released by the Catholic Health Commission of Kenya currently meeting at St Patrick’s Pastoral Centre, Kabula in Bungoma. The statement is co-signed by Bishop Paul Kariuki Njiru of Embu Diocese with his counterpart, Bishop Joseph Mbatia of Nyahururu on behalf of the Commisssion of the Bishops' Conference. The Commission includes 24 health facility managers drawn from Kenya’s Catholic Dioceses.
The Catholic Commission argues that the Government has not sufficiently prepared stakeholders for the vaccinations scheduled for 13 to 19 October 2014. “There has not been adequate stakeholder engagement for consultation in the preparation for the campaign,” the statement says.
The Commission is suspicious about the limited public awareness with this particular campaign unlike in previous ones such as that of the Polio vaccination. This time, the public has not been told of the rationale and background for the Tetanus campaign. The Commission urges the Government to publicly declare a Tetanus crisis in Kenya, if at all there is one. It also questions why the campaign is only targeting women of 14 to 49 years. “Why is the campaign leaving out young girls, boys and men when all are prone to tetanus?” The statement asks. In the midst of so many life-threatening diseases, in Kenya, they are surprised that Tetanus is being prioritised by the Government?
The Commission asserts that “When injected as a vaccine to a non-pregnant woman, the Beta HCG sub unit combined with Tetanus toxoid develops antibodies against Tetanus and HCG so that if a woman’s egg becomes fertilised, her own natural HCG will be destroyed rendering her permanently infertile. In this situation the Tetanus vaccination has been used as a birth control method.” The Commission says that the Catholic Church’s health institutions want to participate in ensuring that the vaccines to be administered are free of this hormone.
The statement ends by saying that the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person must always be priorities in health care and that the Catholic Church, in the absence of proper and adequate information, will not shy away from raising moral questions on matters affecting human life.
The Catholic Church in Kenya has an extensive network of health facilities that include 58 hospitals, 83 health centers, 311 dispensaries and 17 medical training institutions. The Church coordinates these services through the Catholic Health Commission of Kenya, an arm of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB).
Now here's a topic for a Synod on the Family.
Yeah, really. Government super sneaky war on women.
If it’s true that they are targeting only women between 14 and 49 that would at least be a little suspicious...
And is that the worst health issue in Kenya right now? Do they all have clean drinking water and adequate disposal of human waste? Those are probably more pressing issues in the immediate time frame.
Catholic bishops around the world often stand up to their government in defense of the people.
This is something the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops never does. IRS harassment? Silence. Obamacare dumping people left and right? Silence. EPA persecuting innocent ranchers and farmers? Silence. The Global Warming Hoax? They support it. The Carbon Tax Swindle? They support it.
The USCCB promotes open borders, hordes of disease-carrying aliens, free education and health care for illegal aliens, higher taxes, higher welfare, tens of millions of new pro-abortion voters, etc., etc., etc. Everything that is designed to collapse the U.S.
the reason you give tetanus vaccine to pregnant women it to prevent neonatal tetanus. Often the cord is cut with dirty scissors or a dirty knife and they put herbs on the cut cord. The result is neonatal tetanus.
If the mom has had a recent tetanus shot, the baby inherits a lot of her anti tetanus antibodies, so doesn’t get the disease.
There has been an urban legend about various vaccines causing miscarriages or sterilizations, but it is just that: An urban legend.
Of course, there have been experimental vaccines that make women sterile that have been tested on African women, and then there is the Depo provera type shots that cause temporary infertility. Those are the reasons that the urban legend started.
But tetanus vaccine causing sterility? Nope. No way.
If you link this story with the rioting in Sierra Leone about vaccinations for Ebola, it makes more sense why people are very suspicious about UN and WHO immunization programs.
This vaccine consists in part of an alpha-subunit of ovine luteinizing hormone, beta hCG:alpha oLH) linked to tetanus toxoid (TT) or diphtheria toxoid (DT) as carriers. The vaccine was praised by researchers ten years ago, when it first was discovered that "women of proven fertility leading active sexual life were protected from becoming pregnant."
I.e. thousands of women getting tetanus shots were --- so to speak ---as an added bonus at no extra cost (!!!)---- rendered temporarily or permanently sterile without all that complicated business of having to get their consent...
Because it’s easier and cheaper to vaccinate EVERY SINGLE FEMALE between the ages of 14 and 49 than it is to instruct the midwives to dip the scissors in bleach (they even have that in Kenya these days!) prior to cutting the cord.
20 years ago a good friend of mine stepped on a rusty nail during her 8th month of pregnancy. She rushed to her OB for a tetanus shot and was told absolutely not, tetanus toxoid exposure was detrimental to the fetus. They cleaned the wound very carefully and thoroughly and mom and baby somehow managed to survive the perilous experience...
And they are vaccinating every woman, not just the pregnant ones.
And this pressing medical issue (neonatal tetanus) is far more important to fix than say, clean drinking water or adequate disposal of human waste. I’m sure neonatal tetanus kills FAR more women and children than dirty unclean drinking water...
I'm sure that was a huge coincidence..
I am not in any way supportive of forced sterilizations, but I think certain South American governments are overwhelmed with street children and massive social unrest in their cities. It is a very tempting to believe forced birth control is the answer rather than give up the century-old socialist governmental structure and initiate true free market reforms that would provide jobs for all of their citizens.
On a side note, I read that even the Israeli conducted forced sterilization among Ethiopian immigrants and had to apologize when it was made public. Shame on them!
A lot of people approach “social problems” with a kind of idiot arithmetic, consisting solely of subtraction.
actually, rubella vaccine is only given to young kids for fear of infecting pregnant women.
So unless the 11 year olds didn’t have kids two years later, it did not cause the fertility drop.
The fertility drop is due to 1) increased prosperity and 2) the flight of Brazilians from Catholicism, thanks to “liberation theology”, which removes the cultural Catholic way of worshiping in favor of the religion of socialism...
Most Brazilians need “meat” in their religion not this watered down pap...that is why many poor “catholics” there actually have reverted to African like pagan cults and the pious have become Protestant, especially Pentecosal Christians, who of course encourage limiting families in the name of responsible parenthood.
Tetanus vaccine is given at your first visit at prenatal clinic, which is where this urban legend started. However, it is given so the mom’s antibodies will stop the babies from dying of neonatal tetanus.
And this urban legend is at least 20 years old, starting as propaganda from the old USSR propaganda machine against western vaccination programs. A variation of this urban legend is the panic against measles and polio vaccines in Muslim lands.
Alas, the result will be dead or crippled kids...
They were sending TROOPS to remote villages to collect women in their mid 40’s for the mandated vaccination. Including women with DOCUMENTED prior cases of rubella...
Even little girls who had DOCUMENTED prior cases of rubella.
They force vaccinated every single woman in those age groups for a disease that 400 people (people, total, not just pregnant women...) in the entire country had had before.
Because THAT was the MOST pressing healthcare/infrastructure need?
Not clean drinking water, better sterile/antiseptic practices at health clinics, treatment of diabetes and hypertension in pregnant women, prenatal nutrition, good transition foods for babies at weaning age?
Do a lookup on brazil and rubella vaccination.
and then look at their fertility rate over the past decade.
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=br&v=31
http://www.hknc.org
/Rubella%20Watch_Special%20Brazil%20Edition_ENG_final.pdf
As opposed to about 50 other things which they really need more.
This round-up-all-the-women scare was promoted on the grounds that local midwives are, for instance, using unsterilized scissors to cut umbilical cords. Wouldn't it be somewhat more efficient to give every midwife a couple gallons of bleach and show her how to sterilize her scissors?
link from 1993 article lauding the vaccine might soon be released
report on phase one trial on women in 1988, that checked for side effects on women, but not a study if they got pregnant, since the Lancet aricle notes that it was used only on women already sterilized. I can't find phase two or phase three studies.
link to review article on these vaccines from 1996
However, I can't find any articles after those dates, except for articles on anti vaccine and other sites that aren't known for their scientific knowledge.
Since I've seen babies die of neonatal tetanus, I have little patience with this type of stuff.
and giving "sterile" scissors to midwives that one stupid person suggested won't work, because trained midwives already boil their scissors, and many tribes use a self trained midwife or even untrained relatives to deliver the baby. (In Liberia, we had a program to retrain these women to help prevent such problems)... Yet even if the stump was cut with a clean knife and dressed by the midwife, often mom (or grandmom) will remove it and place dirty herbs on the umbillical site.
I am sincerely interested understanding the above information. It's not like "they might use" or "they are accused of using" β-hCG to sterilize women. They do it intentionally as a birth control method. Except often the women are told it's just a tetanus vaccine.
Important as it is to prevent tetanus, don't you think that simultaneously sterilizing the women without their informed consent is unjustified?
but notice they only cite two "experts" without noting what the credentials of these experts were, nor any real evidence backing their claims... and the rest of the information is based on non scientific conspiracy sites.
There have been illegal sterilization programs, for example in Peru, but usually the Human Rights organizations verify such things occurred. Yet they kept quiet here, as did physicians working in the area, who ordinarily will write "letters to the editor" about things like a spike in the rate of miscarriage in these women, Human rights watch usually notes sterlization coercion: example: link
Anti vaccine hysteria is not new: vaccine revolt of 1904.
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