A 1972 WHO task force researched how vaccines could be used for pregnancy prevention. Researchers were not directed to create a vaccine that caused permanent sterilization.
of an anti-HCG vaccine involving 30 volunteers showed"potentially contraceptive levels of antibodies to HCG" for up to six months. No adverse reactions were reported.
Clinical trials by researchers at the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi, on another anti-HCG vaccine showed the vaccine was . That vaccine used a slightly different approach than the WHO-favored version, but both were anti-HCG vaccines.about the status of contraceptive vaccines written by researchers from Government Medical College in Chandigarh, India, said that all anti-HCG vaccines currently being researched require multiple injections to achieve and maintain the contraceptive effect.
An Instagram video claimed,"the World Health Organization has been working since 1974 on vaccines to create permanent sterility."A WHO task force researched contraceptive vaccines and helped create an anti-HCG vaccine designed to temporarily prevent the production of a hormone that supports a pregnancy. But that’s not the same as sterilization.We rate this claim False.
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