Tetanus Vaccines: What you need to know
Despite claims online, there’s no evidence the jabs make you infertile.
There’s loads of misinformation online about vaccines. For years, there have been false claims about the tetanus jab causing infertility. One of our listeners, Henry, got in touch to ask us if they were true. Fauziyya Tukur, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Disinformation journalist in Abuja, looks into the claims with us.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's medical editor, Fergus Walsh explains why vaccine hesitancy is on the rise around the world - and the impact vaccines have had on global health. And we hear from Sahar Baloch, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ journalist in Islamabad, who talks about efforts to eradicate polio in Pakistan, amid misinformation about the jab (fuelled in part by a CIA fake vaccine campaign to seek out Osama bin Laden!).
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