Thanks, anti-vaxxers!
Including this halfassed "doctor."
… last week, a polio vaccination campaign in Kenya faced an unlikely opponent: The country’s Conference of Catholic Bishops declared a boycott of the World Health Organization’s vaccination campaign, saying they needed to “test” whether ingredients contain a derivative of estrogen. Dr. Wahome Ngare of the Kenyan Catholic Doctor’s Association alleged that the presence of the female hormone could sterilize children.
Ngare is a practicing gynecologist with no infectious disease experience.
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NPR’s Gregory Warner notes that some of the opposition to immunization efforts in the area are fueled more by suspicions about the international organizations administering them and the tactics of those organizations, rather than the vaccines themselves. But in the case of Dr. Ngare, while he emphasizes that “regular immunizations are safe and they must continue,” many of his objections to the polio vaccine are the standard anti-vaccine pseudo-science you hear in the U.S.
He raises the specter of eugenics — sterilizing segments of human populations. He put forth other objections as well: “There are all sorts of stories out there,” he told me. “Vaccines can cause autism. Vaccines have been used for spread of HIV. There are some cancer-causing viruses that you’d find in vaccines. So there are lot of stories. Some of them we don’t know whether they’re true or not true.”
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