Tetanus vaccine unsafe, say Catholics

The disputation close the tetanus vaccine resurfaces when a recent argument over the credibility of results of a joint take a look at between the ministry of Health and therefore the church. Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday later issued a press release questioning the style during which the tests were conducted by the ministry. This comes despite the very fact that each parties had given the vaccine a clean bill of health previous Sunday once they each released the result of the joint testing.

The statement was signed by Cardinal John Njue demanding that no additional mass tetanus vaccination campaigns ought to be administered before the vaccine is correctly tested and tested to be safe. The Church accuses the government of presenting forty vials for testing from its stores without previous consultation with the joint committee overseeing the tests.

“The results were loaded onto nineteen alternative vials bestowed by the joint committee,” the statement notes. in line with them, the aim was “to produce a dilution and bias of the 3 vials” out of a bunch of 9 that had been presented by the church.
They additionally fault the govt. for what they term as its reluctance to receive the results from the laboratories. “It finally accepted to try when the Cardinal threatened that Catholics would pull out of the exercise,” the statement says.

“In read of those facts, we the Catholic bishops would like to tell the vaccine used for the mass tetanus vaccination in March and Oct 2014 contained some vials laced with beta HGC. we are asking that no additional vaccinations to be undertaken before the vaccine has been properly tested and fully tested that it’s safe,” the statement added.

However, Health cabinet Secretary James Macharia reiterated that the vaccine was safe. “This issue has been confirmed by the joint committee,” he told the state on phone he said all vaccines by WHO and United Nations International Children\'s Emergency Fund were adequately tested for safety before being administered in fifty two countries.