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Nigerian tests show vaccines do not contain harmful hormones.
2003 DEC 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Polio vaccines used in a recent nationwide vaccination campaign do not contain hormones linked to infertility and sterility, despite persistent fears to the contrary among Nigerian Muslim fundamentalists, government-ordered tests showed.
Laboratory tests carried out by the National Hospital in the capital showed a random sample of polio vaccines did not contain sterility- or infertility-inducing hormones, the hospital said in a statement.
Hospital administrators did not say whether the vaccines were also being checked for the AIDS virus, which Islamic radicals had also expressed concerns about.
"From the evidence of the assays ... it was concluded that there was no evidence that the oral polio vaccine samples contained reproductive hormones," the hospital said.
Ibrahim Shekarau, governor of the predominantly Muslim state of Kano, declined to reveal the outcome of a separate investigation carried out by his state, explaining only that, "Unless we listen and verify the allegations about the vaccine, we can't say whether or not they are true."
Nigerian President Atiku Abubakar ordered the laboratory tests after U.N. health officials warned that an international drive to eradicate polio was being hampered in Nigeria by the persistent assertion of Islamic fundamentalists that the vaccination drive is part of a U.S. plan to decimate the Muslim population by spreading AIDS and infertility.
International health officials and the Nigerian government have called the allegations ridiculous.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Nigerian tests show vaccines do not contain harmful hormones.