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My Girl Died As Guinea Pig For GARDASIL
nypost.com — Jessica Ericzon collapsed dead days after receiving a shot of the cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil...
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- Onechrisn, on 07/21/2008, -1/+9Because "300,000 young women take Gardasil and are perfectly fine!" doesn't make for high ratings.
- cutchyacokov, on 07/21/2008, -0/+12I don't mean to sound callous here but anecdotal evidence really isn't evidence at all. All medical drugs, including vaccines, have side effects and sometimes people die from them. The real questions are how often do these side effects occur? (and how bad are they normally?) As well as how common is the disease? (and how bad is it?) This article does nothing to address the real issues and only tries to appeal to the emotions of the reader, which really does nothing, at all, for the debate.
Without more knowledge about the issue I'm not going to jump in on either side of the debate. However, according to this article on CBC News (which seems to be using the same information to get the 8000 figure that this article does):
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/07/07/adverser ...
It seems that, of the 8000 who complained of adverse reactions to the vaccine "pain at the injection site" was the most common problem and this 8000 is out of a total of 13.5 million girls who received the vaccine within the passed couple of years. That is only 0.6% of the field, which actually seems rather low to me (especially when we consider that this includes people who complained of a sore arm). However, since I have no clue how large a threat the cervical cancer poses or how bad the average adverse reaction is I'm still not sure whether this vaccine is a good thing or a bad thing. So far, though, it seems like the problems with it are being somewhat exaggerated but that is just my current (rather weak) opinion.- ruforealz, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but couldn't this be avoided if instead of getting vaccinated you just got regular checkups to look for cervical cancer?
- mindy624, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Tell that to the girls who have gullian barre syndrome now.
They should not be giving this to women of CHILDBEARING age now.
They haven't done any real studies on it.
THIS is the study...these girl ARE the guinea pigs!!
FDA Report
140 "serious" adverse reactions, including 27 "life threatening" cases, 10 spontaneous abortions, and 6 cases of the debilitating Guillain-Barre Syndrome reported since January 2008
http://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/2008/JWRepo ...
There is going to be a mother of CLASS ACTION suites concerning Gardasil and EVERY one who has any hand in 'recommending it' to young women from magazines and websites to your average OB, is going to be forced to contribute to the class action fund.
mindy
Gardasil causing "one death per month"
Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month: FDA Report
140 "serious" adverse reactions, including 27 "life threatening" cases, 10
spontaneous abortions, and 6 cases of the debilitating Guillain-Barre
Syndrome reported since January 2008
By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - One death per month is
the average loss of life associated with the cervical cancer vaccine
Gardasil according to an FDA report obtained by a government watchdog
agency.
Merck, the makers of Gardasil, are poised to make profits in the billions
from the vaccine, which protects against some cancer-causing forms of the
sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), but the pharmaceutical
giant has come under heavy criticism for fast-tracking the drug onto the
market without adequate testing in order to beat out its rivals.
Judicial Watch, a public interest group that campaigns against government
corruption, uncovered documents through the Freedom of Information Act that
show the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received reports of 10 deaths
associated with Gardasil since September 2007, and 140 "serious" reports of
adverse reactions, including 27 "life threatening" cases, 10 spontaneous
abortions, and 6 cases of the debilitating Guillain-Barre Syndrome since
January 2008.
Judicial Watch also found 8,864 Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
(VAERS) records associated with Gardasil, more than double the 3,461 events
that had been reported with the HPV vaccine in Fall 2007. Many experienced
outbreaks of genital warts from the HPV vaccine.
The watchdog group says the number of deaths associated with the vaccine is
at least 18 and possibly as many as 20.
Eleven deaths occurred less than a week after receiving the vaccine. Seven
women died in less than two days. The most common diagnosed cause was blood
clotting. One woman died from a clot within 3 hours of the vaccine. One
20-year-old woman, with no medical history reported, died April 4, 2008 just four days after receiving Gardasil.
The serious adverse events include anaphylactic shock, grand mal convulsion, foaming at mouth, coma, paralysis, and death.
Another 23 year-old woman was vaccinated with her first dose of Gardasil on
January 31, 2008 and thereupon went into anaphylactic shock. The report
says, "patient experienced anaphylactic shock 2 minutes after vaccination
characterized by a brief loss of consciousness... respiratory arrest, eyes
rolled upwards, blurred vision and greyish skin tone... Anaphylactic shock
was considered to be immediately life-threatening."
A 14 year-old girl took six steps after being injected with the vaccine
before she collapsed to the floor unconscious and foaming at the mouth. The
girl regained consciousness after "a 60 second grand mal seizure" and had
"pale clammy skin" and blood pressure of 60/40.
A VAERS report from a physician stated a female patient was inoculated with
a dose of Gardasil and, "Subsequently, the patient experienced a coma and is now paralyzed."
Merck & Co. has invested heavily in getting US states to mandate Gardasil to schoolgirls as young as 11 for sexually transmitted HPV in order to beat out rival Glaxo Smith Kline's vaccine Cervarix. Merck successfully lobbied the FDA to fast track Gardasil to the market, which critics have charged essentially makes US women part of a massive testing experiment.
JPMorgan Analyst Chris Schott told Forbes.com that since GlaxoSmithKline PLC was delaying submitting more information to the FDA on its cervical cancer treatment Cervarix until the first half of 2009, he projects Merck to dominate the market, while Cervarix will manage only 25% market share by
2012.
"Given all the questions about Gardasil, the best public health policy would be to re-evaluate its safety and to prohibit its distribution to minors," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "In the least, governments should rethink any efforts to mandate or promote this vaccine for children."
Read the special report by Judicial Watch:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/2008/JWRepo ...
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