As the campaign was beginning, Kenya's Catholic bishops justified8 their boycott call by saying it had not been thoroughly9 tested. The bishops also alleged10 that the vaccines11 were birth control in disguise. They had raised similar objections earlier this year to a tetanus vaccination12 campaign.
就在这项运动开始之时，肯尼亚天主教主教为其抵制行为辩护，称疫苗没有得到详细的测试，这位主教还说疫苗是在为生育控制做掩护，他们还赞扬了今年早些时候对破伤风疫苗接种活动类似的反对。
“We are in the status where now we must be able to kind of determine our own destiny,” said Cardinal13 John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi.
内罗毕大主教说，“我们目前必须能够决定自己的命运。”
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“The polio vaccine that is being used in this campaign from the 1st to the 5th of August is safe," he insisted. "It has gone all through the quality assurance system, including our own confirmation14 in our laboratories that the vaccine is safe."
“从8月1日到5日这次运动中使用的脊髓灰质炎疫苗是安全的，已经经过质量保证体系的详细验证，而且我们在自己实验室的化验表明疫苗是安全的。”
Catholic officials VOA contacted elsewhere in the world would not comment specifically on the Kenyan bishops' position, saying only that local Church leaders have a responsibility to protect their congregations. But writings from Catholic Church leaders approve of vaccines and see them as a both a way to protect individual lives and public health.
美国之音联系的世界其他地区的天主教官员没有对肯尼亚大主教的立场做出专门的评论，只是表示当地教堂领袖有责任保护其会众。但天主教堂领袖撰写的文章批准了该疫苗，称疫苗是保护个体生命和公共健康的办法。
