Vaccine laced with birth control drugs?

[BillyJoe]

Read this article:
(Sorry, it's an old story about tetanus vaccines laced with birth control drugs given to women in the Phillipines and Mexico, dating back to 1995)

http://www.thinktwice.com/birthcon.htm

It is obviously an anti-vaccination site, and I have found numerous other anti-vaccintion sites that carry the same article. What I can't find, despite lots of googling, is a site that debunks it.

Several claims are made:

- Only women between the ages of 15 and 45 were vaccinated
- Human chorionic gonadotrophin hormone was found in the vaccines.
- HCG antibodies were found in vaccinated women.

- WHO has been actively involved for more than 20 years in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine using hCG tied to tetanus toxoid as a carrier

I would appreciate any information or links that anyone may have.

BillyJoe

[Capsid]

There's some mis-information there. The vaccines are not laced with birth control drugs but rather their very purpose is to induce anti-hCG antibodies in women by vaccinating them with hCG. The anti-hCG antibodies then sterilise the women for a period of time until the antibody titres susbside. There's no subterfuge unless the women who were vacinated were not informed that this is what the vaccine does. The tetanus vaccine is used merely to carry the hCG protein and facilitate the immune response.

The only test to show the tetanus vaccine was "laced" is the anti-hCG test in some women which could be due to false positives as the article states.

[BillyJoe]

Capsid,

Sorry, I was not clear.
The accusation was that these women were ostensibly being vaccinated against tetanus, but secretly being given tetanus vaccine laced with HCG to produce reduced fertility.
Why, otherwise were the men and children no vaccinated for tetanus, the accusers asked.

BillyJoe

[Capsid]

Capsid,

Sorry, I was not clear.
The accusation was that these women were ostensibly being vaccinated against tetanus, but secretly being given tetanus vaccine laced with HCG to produce reduced fertility.
Why, otherwise were the men and children no vaccinated for tetanus, the accusers asked.

BillyJoe
But I didn't see any evidence that it is secretly administered. The WHO were promoting the campaign openly, weren't they?

[BillyJoe]

Perhaps they were, I don't know.
But the anti-vaccination site linked above made the following claim:

During the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) had been overseeing massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries, among them Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. In October 1994, HLI received a communication from its Mexican affiliate, the Comite' Pro Vida de Mexico, regarding that country's anti-tetanus campaign. Suspicious of the campaign protocols, the Comite' obtained several vials of the vaccine and had them analyzed by chemists. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), a naturally occurring hormone essential for maintaining a pregnancy.


But, perhaps you are correct.
Perhaps it was actually a plan to reduce fertility and the anti-vaccination movement "misunderstood".
The original complaint was made by the Catholic Church, so that would make sense.

[BillyJoe]

I have found a relevant link:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0968-8080(199511)3%3A6%3C24%3ADTIPFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

I can only read a sample page because the rest has access restrictions.
In the sample page it says that the accusations were unfounded.
Pity I can't get the details though.

If anyone knows where to find them please let me know.

[Deetee]

There is likely to be some economy with the truth in all these reports. Antivaxers will jump at any chance to denigrate a vaccination campaign, so things may not be as they seem.

A tetanus vaccine would be marketed/promoted as a tetanus vaccine, and would say on the box/label that it was a tetanus vaccine.

A contraceptive vaccine (with a tetanus carrier) would be promoted as a contraceptive vaccine. Now it is possible for recipients of one of these vaccines to be confused as to what was being administered, but the reports cited might indicate that the contraceptive vaccine was being deliberately given under the guise of being a vaccine specifically for tetanus. If this actually happened then this is quite unacceptable. What is suggested by the reports is that Tetanus vaccine itself was adulterated by the addition of HCG. Again, this would be unacceptable and presumably a criminal offence.

My electronic sources for journals such as the Lancet only go back to 1990, so I cannot yet find more solid confirmation that this is what happened. I'll keep looking.



ETA:
However - I am waiting for someone to email me a pdf of the "Reproductive Health Matters" article as I write...........


ETA:
I have it now.
The article explains how concerns about tetanus vaccination schedules in women of child-bearing age (Extra boosters to raise immunity and to prevent neonatal tetanus) were jumped on by groups keen to conflate vaccination with attempts at surreptitious contraception.
Initial analysis of vaccine by a lab using a kit to dtect HCG in urine was marginally positive - thought to be falsely so because of a reaction with other adjuvants in the vaccine.
Retesting with a proper assay confirmed vaccine was not contaminated/adulterated with HCG, but pro-lifers obviously went to town with their attempts to confuse the issue.

Thanks to the Pro-lifers I wonder how many women went unvaccinated against tetanus, only to have their babies die from neonatal tetanus. Some twisted type of Pro-life policy, that one....

BJ, PM me your email and I'll send you the pdf.

[BillyJoe]

Deetee,

Thanks for that effort.
I look forward to your email.

regards,
BillyJoe