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!
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...