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Gardasil Danger Zone
This kind of information will scare the hell out of you initially, but
then you begin to wake up and see that drug companies are really just in
it for the money, and this should make everyone very concerned about
accepting any vaccinations whatsoever.
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Gardasil Researcher Criticizes Moves to Make HPV Vaccine Manditory
08 MAY 2008 - newsinferno.com
A scientist who helped Merck & Co. conduct clinical
trials for the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil is questioning
efforts to mandate the controversial vaccine for young girls,
whether their parents want them to have it or not. Dr. Diane Harper,
a top expert on the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), says Merck’s
aggressive campaign to convince states to adopt mandatory Gardasil
vaccine guidelines enters into a “real danger zone.”
Gardasil was approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in
June 2006. At the time of its approval, Merck & Co. said that
clinical trials had proven the vaccine to be between 90-100%
effective in preventing the transmission of some strains of HPV that
cause cervical cancer. The approval of Gardasil was much hyped,
with Merck claiming that it had the potential to eventually
eliminate most cervical cancers.
Just weeks after its approval, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
recommended that all young girls between the ages of 11 and 12
receive the Gardasil vaccine. Merck was more than happy to echo the
CDC recommendations, and actually began an intensive lobbying
effort to convince state health authorities to make Gardasil
vaccinations mandatory for young girls. Merck’s heavy promotion
of Gardasil has been effective, as some analysts estimate that
Gardasil could net the company as much as $1.4 billion in its
first full year on the market.
Dr. Harper, who has dedicated two decades of her career to research
on HPV, told Florida TV station WFOR-TV that the rush to recommend
and mandate the vaccination of very young girls “went too fast
without any breaks.” Dr. Harper says that there has not been enough
post-marketing surveillance of Gardasil to insure that it is free of
side effects that could prove particularly dangerous to young
girls. “We don’t know yet what’s going to happen when millions
of doses of the vaccine have been given and to put in place a
process that says you must have this vaccine, it means you must be
part of a big public experiment. So we can’t do that until we
have more data.” Dr. Harper said.
Dr. Harper’s concerns are well-founded as the FDA has received
reports of possible reactions to Gardasil. A 2007 analysis by
Judicial Watch of Gardasil adverse event reports revealed that there
had been at least 3,461 complaints of adverse reactions to the
Gardasil vaccine, and there could have been as many as eight deaths
attributable to Gardasil. According to Judicial Watch, in several
instances, blood clots were reported to have occurred after the
administration of Gardasil. The Gardasil side effect reports also
included 28 women who miscarried after receiving Gardasil. Other
side effects reported to the FDA included paralysis, Bells Palsy,
Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures were also reported. As some
have pointed out, Judicial Watch is a conservative organization with
an agenda. But Judicial Watch did not fabricate these adverse event
reports, and the seriousness of some of them indicate a need for
further investigation.
While working as a professor at Dartmouth College Dr. Harper served
as a researcher on study trials for Gardasil and another HPV
vaccine, Cervarix, which is being developed by GlaxoSmithKline. In
fact, she is the lead author on two Cervarix papers. While Dr.
Harper said says she is convinced HPV vaccines can help prevent
cancers in the long run, she believes that parents and women
should have a choice. Dr. Harper said she would also be opposed
to any measure to make Cervarix mandatory if it receives FDA
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