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WHO, Unicef say tetanus vaccine is safe

Kenya: The tetanus vaccine being given to Kenyan women is not contaminated with a human hormone used to sterilise women, a top World Health Organisation (WHO) official has revealed.

WHO Reproductive Health and Research Director Marleen Temmerman said the vaccine did not contain the beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone said to sterilise women.

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