http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Church-misinterpreted-test-results/-/1056/2523968/-/smap3pz/-/index.html

“The tetanus vaccine does not contain the Beta hCG group,” said the [managing director] of Lancet, one of the six labs contracted, Dr Ahmed Kalebi.

The pathologist said the church misinterpreted the results of the tests that were conducted in his lab in March and October.

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ALTERNATIVE LABS
Dr Kalebi said the vials delivered to Lancet by the church were treated as human samples and not as vaccines. “We tested these samples as we would a request to determine pregnancy”.

The hCG hormone is produced in large amounts throughout pregnancy and therefore aids in determining results of a pregnancy test.

He added that it was not communicated to him and his team that the vials were a vaccine and not a human specimen.

“Had we been informed from the very beginning, we would have advised them on alternative labs to take the tests to for accurate results and even interpreted the data properly,” Dr Kalebi said.

He explained to the Sunday Nation on the telephone that there are specific procedures for conducting tests, and a numerical figure in a test cannot be interpreted to mean the presence or absence of an element in another test.

“We are a human-sample testing laboratory with equipment developed to carry out tests on serum, urine and other human specimens; the same procedures used on clinical tests on a matter such as pregnancy are not appropriate for tests such as a vaccine”.

INAPPROPRIATE TESTS
As a consequence of using these inappropriate tests, he said, low levels of hCG-like activity were found in some samples of the vaccine.”

I am wondering when the Kenyan Catholic Medical Association and the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops will apologize and make amends, by promoting prenatal tetanus vaccination. I’m not holding my breath.