[NVIC] Gardasil Meets Measles: A Coincidence?

[Guest guest]

" Last week, a CDC apparently weary of all the bad

publicity about GARDASIL got its taxpayer-funded

PR machine in gear and issued a

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advisory warning that 131 cases of measles have been reported in the U.S. "

" The publicizing of 131 cases of measles out of a

population of 300 million people in the U.S. and

blaming the " outbreak " on 63 cases that occurred

in unvaccinated children, whose parents hold

religious or conscientious objections to

vaccination or homeschool, is a transparent

attempt by federal employees to persecute fellow

citizens holding religious beliefs, moral

convictions, intellectual positions and wellness

lifestyles different from their own. Adopting a

strategy that " the best defense is a good

offense, " CDC officials are whipping up fear of

those who do not vaccinate in order to cover up a

three decade

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to scientifically investigate reports of children

regressing into autism and other kinds of chronic

illness after administration of MMR and other

vaccines. They know the truth about vaccine risks

is becoming more widely known and are lobbying

hard for removal vaccine exemptions they do not

control so all Americans will be forced without

exception to get every vaccine marketed by

industry and mandated by government officials.

"

Sheri

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Gardasil Meets Measles: A Coincidence?

by Barbara Loe Fisher

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www.NVIC.org

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The bad news about GARDASIL vaccine keeps getting

worse and it was only a matter of time before

government health officials promoted an

" epidemic " to deflect attention from GARDASIL

risks and create an excuse to point accusing

fingers at parents who decline to give their

children one or more of the 16 federally promoted

vaccines. They did the same thing in 1985, when

publicity about DPT vaccine reactions prompted

officials at the CDC and American Academy of

Pediatrics to allege there were whooping cough

epidemics in eight states due to parents

rejecting DPT. Then as now, the cases of disease

were divided between vaccinated and unvaccinated

children and adults, which is hardly big news.

The government's dire warnings came late last

week after

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articles examined the muscle that Merck used to

get GARDASIL fast tracked and licensed, followed

by an aggressive multi-media advertising and

lobbying campaign targeting teenage girls which

has already netted the big pharmaceutical company

more than $1.5 billion in sales worldwide. The

New England Journal of Medicine published an

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discussed in the

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Street Journal asking good questions about the

evidence for long term protection and cost

effectiveness of mass use of GARDASIL vaccine,

questions that

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first raised in 2007.

And new concerns are being voiced about whether

the vaccine is safe to give to

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girls, whose bodies are undergoing hormonal

changes, as no studies have been published to

evaluate whether there are increased risks for

vaccine reactions depending upon when the vaccine

is administered during a girl's monthly hormonal cycle.

Last week, a CDC apparently weary of all the bad

publicity about GARDASIL got its taxpayer-funded

PR machine in gear and issued a

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advisory warning that 131 cases of measles have

been reported in the U.S. this year and that half

of those cases involved unvaccinated children

whose parents homeschooled their children or held

religious or philosophical beliefs opposing use

of one or more vaccines.

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news stories and

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news coverage examined the measles outbreaks and

allegations of growing parental vaccine refusal.

The New York Times published an

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and repeated unsubstantiated claims made by the

CDC about the numbers of children, who were

injured and died from measles in the past,

stating that there were 400-500 deaths; 48,000

hospitalizations and 1,000 cases of brain injury

out of 3-4 million measles cases every year prior

to mass use of measles vaccine. A quick look at

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historical charts reveals that the highest number

of reported cases of measles in the U.S. since

1945 (and before the measles vaccine was licensed

in 1963) was 763,094 cases in 1958. Why don't CDC

officials publicly release the documented cases

of hospitalization, injury and death due to

measles in that year - or ANY year - instead of

demanding blind faith in their version of the

facts? (For decades, parents have been waiting

for the CDC to document the widely published

allegation that there are

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deaths " due to influenza every year in the U.S.,

a statistic that is promoted to justify new

directives that every baby and child through age 18 get annual flu shots.)

The publicizing of 131 cases of measles out of a

population of 300 million people in the U.S. and

blaming the " outbreak " on 63 cases that occurred

in unvaccinated children, whose parents hold

religious or conscientious objections to

vaccination or homeschool, is a transparent

attempt by federal employees to persecute fellow

citizens holding religious beliefs, moral

convictions, intellectual positions and wellness

lifestyles different from their own. Adopting a

strategy that " the best defense is a good

offense, " CDC officials are whipping up fear of

those who do not vaccinate in order to cover up a

three decade

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to scientifically investigate reports of children

regressing into autism and other kinds of chronic

illness after administration of MMR and other

vaccines. They know the truth about vaccine risks

is becoming more widely known and are lobbying

hard for removal vaccine exemptions they do not

control so all Americans will be forced without

exception to get every vaccine marketed by

industry and mandated by government officials.

The premature licensure and universal use

recommendation of GARDASIL is just the latest

example of what is wrong with the mass

vaccination system. If there is a crisis of

confidence in the safety of vaccines, which

prompts parents to ask pediatricians more

questions and seek alternative health care

options for keeping their children well, that

crisis of confidence can be laid squarely at the

feet of those operating the mass vaccination

system for failing to do their job. As Generation

Rescue founder

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Handley recently commented, " Most parents I know will take measles over autism.

There is a

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to 100 percent uptake of MMR vaccine and many

other federally recommended childhood vaccines

among children entering kindergarten in every

state. This is one of the highest vaccination

rates in the world, especially in such a large

population. If the MMR vaccine is so unreliable

that a few hundred cases or even a few thousand

cases of measles among 300 million people is a

cause for panic, then the benefits of MMR vaccine

weighed against its risks are far less than

industry, government and medical organizations have admitted.

In the 1960's, when the live virus measles

vaccine was licensed, parents were told it would

give their babies the same lifelong immunity that

having the natural disease confers. By the late

1980's, it was clear that was not true because

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was occurring in both vaccinated and unvaccinated

children. Government officials eventually

recommended another dose of measles vaccine

(usually given as MMR) for all children even

though there were outstanding questions about the

multiplication of

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genetic strains of measles and how this may

affect the vaccine's ability to prevent measles

on an individual and population basis long term.

Today's young mothers do not have qualitatively

superior measles antibodies to transfer to their

newborns to protect them in the first year of

life as past generations of mothers did because

most young mothers giving birth today have been

vaccinated and never had measles as children,

which confers lifelong immunity. So babies born

today are vulnerable to measles from birth

instead of from ages 15 months to six years,

which is when most children in the past

experienced measles by age six and severe

complications were rare. For several decades,

vaccinologists have been attempting to create a

" high titer " EZ measles vaccine that can be given

to infants under one year that will

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any existing natural maternal antibodies and

replace them with vaccine induced antibodies but

there have been long-standing questions about

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measles vaccine safety.

Vaccination does not mimic the natural disease

process and offers only temporary immunity, which

is why vaccine boosters are frequently given.

Every vaccine carries a reaction risk that can be

greater for some than others. Measles vaccine,

which is part of the combination live virus MMR

(measles-mumps- rubella) vaccine can cause brain

inflammation and

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brain damage. There have been more than 46,000

reports of health problems associated with MMR

vaccination made to the federal

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Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) .

However, there is gross underreporting of

vaccine- related health problems to VAERS and it

is estimated that, for example,

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than 4 percent of all cases of thrombocytopenia

(potentially fatal blood disorder) following MMR

vaccination are ever reported to VAERS.

The CDC's one-size-fits-all, no-exceptions MMR

vaccine policies allow

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no contraindications to MMR vaccine use.

According to the CDC, a child can be sick at the

time of vaccination or recovering from an

illness; have a fever; be taking antibiotics;

have a history of allergies; or have experienced

a seizure or regression after a previous MMR shot

and still be eligible for more MMR vaccine. This

kind of cavalier disregard for minimizing vaccine

risks is one reason why more parents are

questioning government vaccine policies.

Parents, whether they do or do not vaccinate

their children, should

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informed and clearly understand the symptoms and

complications of every infectious disease,

including measles. Parents who choose to

vaccinate should have a 99 to 100 percent

guarantee that the vaccine will, indeed protect

their child. They should have a similar guarantee

that the vaccine will not injure or kill their child.

Like all pharmaceutical products, vaccines should

be subject to the law of supply and demand. When

people are captive and unable to make informed,

voluntary decisions about vaccines that have been

rushed to market on greased skids by federal

health agencies, where every vaccine reaction is

unscientifically labeled a " coincidence, " the

first casualty is freedom and the second is the health of innocent children.

Public health officials and pediatricians should

explain why 20 percent of America's highly

vaccinated child population suffers with chronic

illness and disability rather than blaming

parents who refuse to salute smartly and take the

risk of watching the child they love become one more victim of vaccine damage.

To report a vaccine reaction to

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Vaccine Reaction Registry, go to

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To view vaccine reaction reports, go to the

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VictimMemorial at

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rial.org/

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" Ms. Kim and Harvard colleague Sue Goldie

concluded that it cost about $43,600 per

" quality- adjusted life year " gained, when HPV

vaccine is administered to 12-year-old girls.

This falls below the $50,000 per quality-adjusted

life year threshold that some researchers use as

a maximum for cost- effectiveness. Other

researchers use a higher maximum benchmark of

$100,000 per QALY to gauge

cost-effectiveness..... At least one of the

factors in the primary Harvard calculations may

be a relatively optimistic assumption -- that

vaccination would produce lifelong immunity.

Because the vaccine was only studied for five

years and has been on the market for two years,

no one knows for certain if its protection is

lifelong, or if it wanes over time. The Harvard

researchers concluded that the cost per QALY

would rise if the vaccine's effect wanes after 10

years. Merck says the vaccine will offer

protection well beyond five years, Dr. Haupt

said. The Merck economic model that arrived at

the cost per QALY below $50,000 assumed lifelong

immunity, he said. Still, the study is likely to

fuel skepticism about Gardasil, which has already

faced questions surrounding its safety and

effectiveness (Merck and the CDC maintain it is

safe and effective, with the most common side

effect being soreness at site of injection.) " -

Loftus, Wall Street Journal (August 21,

2008)

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" Why has there not been any mention of the

potentially adverse effects of Merck's cervical

cancer vaccination, Gardasil® in relationship to

the timing of the vaccination and where a young

woman is in her menstrual cycle? This information

is especially critical considering the

vaccination is recommended for adolescent girls

from the age of nine to young women up to

26-years. Why is it that women are constantly

forced into a male medical model which blatantly

ignores their menstrual health and administers

drugs, surgeries, and vaccinations without any

regard to where women are in their hormone

cycle?....As the female hormone levels of

estrogen and progesterone decrease during the

premenstrual phase, the female body begins the

process of releasing the uterine lining in the

act of menstruation. The decrease in hormones

actually affects a woman's energy levels and her

emotions. The immune system becomes more

compromised, and that translates to a lowered

defense system to fight off invading, foreign

toxins..... In her 1977 groundbreaking book, " The

Premenstrual Syndrome " , Katharina Dalton noted

that drug reactions " .....are common during the

premenstruum and may follow administration of

antibiotics and inoculations. Confusion may occur

as to the real origin of such reactions. In

double-blind, clinical trials the placebo drugs

are often reported to have side effects such as

increased drowsiness, headache, nausea, or

increased pain; which may be no more than the

usual premenstrual symptoms which have not been

meticulously observed and reported. " -

Carol Botha and H. Chevalier-Batik, Holy Hormones (August 21, 2008)

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" Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest

level in more than a decade, with nearly half of

those involving children whose parents rejected

vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

Worried doctors are troubled by the trend fueled

by unfounded fears that vaccines may cause

autism. The number of cases is still small, just

131, but that's only for the first seven months

of the year. There were only 42 cases for all of

last year.....The CDC's review found that a

number of cases involved home-schooled children

not required to get the vaccines. Others can

avoid vaccination by seeking exemptions, such as

for religious reasons.....The vaccine is

considered highly effective but not perfect; 11

of this year's cases had at least one dose of the

vaccine. Of this year's total, 122 were

unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status.

Some were unvaccinated because the children were

under age 1 - too young to get their first

measles shot. In 63 of those cases - almost all

of them 19 or under - the patient or their

parents refused the shots for philosophical or

religious reasons, the CDC reported. In

Washington state, an outbreak was traced to a

church conference, including 16 school-aged

children who were not vaccinated. Eleven of those

kids were home schooled and not subject to

vaccination rules in public schools. It's unclear

why the parents rejected the vaccine. The

Illinois outbreak - triggered by a teenager who

had traveled to Italy - included 25 home-schooled

children, according to the CDC report. " - Mike

Stobbe, Associated Press (August 21, 2008)

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" He was advanced for his age. He was talking when

he was 11 months old, " recalls Delean. The

father of 4 says everything changed after his now

9 year old son who has autism was vaccinated

against measles, mumps, and rubella or MMR. It

was like that was it. He never talked again, he

still doesn't talk. He has about 10 words, " he

says, adding, " it really devastated our family. I

just destroyed us. " Testimonials like that have

led some parents to shun vaccinations altogether.

The Centers for Disease Control says measles

cases have dramatically increased from 42 cases

in all of last year to 131 in just the first

seven months of this year because of parents who

are rejecting the MMR vaccine for their kids. " It

doesn't serve us well when we have government

officials trying to create fear and anxiety " says

Barbara Loe Fisher with the National Vaccine

Information Center. She says some parents opt out

of immunizations for religious or philosophical

reasons. Others have said no because their kids

have had adverse reactions to the vaccines that

are usually given on a set schedule. " Right now

we're seeing a one-size fits all approach to

vaccination that doesn't really recognize that

children are different, that children react

differently to vaccinations, " she says. " -

Yamada, WUSA9-TV (August 21, 2008)

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Study Questions Cost-Effectiveness Of Gardasil Cervical-Cancer Vaccine

by Loftus

Wall Street Journal

August 21, 2008

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A new study suggests that giving Merck & Co.'s

cervical-cancer vaccine Gardasil to women through

their mid-20s may not be worth the price, despite

U.S. recommendations that this age group receive the costly shot.

The study, published online Wednesday by The New

England Journal of Medicine, comes as Merck

already is having difficulty persuading

college-age and older women to get the vaccine,

which was introduced in 2006 and costs about $360

for a three-dose regimen. This has contributed to

a slowdown in Gardasil sales, casting a cloud on Merck's financial outlook.

Questions surrounding Gardasil's cost-

effectiveness also could make for tougher market

conditions for GlaxoKline PLC's Cervarix, a

cervical-cancer vaccine that is available outside

the U.S. and is under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Gardasil is designed to prevent infection by four

strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV,

which is transmitted through sexual activity. Two

of the targeted HPV strains are believed to cause

about 70% of all cervical-cancer cases, while the

other targeted strains cause most cases of

genital warts. HPV also can cause other, rare

tumor types such as vaginal and anal cancers.

Gardasil isn't guaranteed to prevent cervical

cancer because it doesn't protect against certain cancer-causing HPV strains.

The FDA approved Gardasil for use in females ages

9 to 26. The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention recommends routine HPV vaccination for

girls 11 and 12 years old, as well as a temporary

" catchup " vaccination for girls and women ages 13

through 26 who were never immunized. The CDC says

it's ideal to get vaccinated before becoming

sexually active, but vaccination after becoming

sexually active can still offer protection

because girls and women may not become exposed to

all four HPV strains for many years. The vaccine

doesn't treat existing infections, however.

The study published by researchers from the

Harvard School of Public Health suggests

Gardasil's cost is justified in pre-adolescent

girls, partly because they are less likely to

have already been exposed to HPV. But among older

females, the cost-effectiveness of Gardasil

becomes less and less favorable, researchers

concluded. " Under most scenarios, extending the

catchup to 26 wasn't cost-effective, " Jane Kim,

an assistant Harvard professor, said in an interview.

Merck, Whitehouse Station, N.J., disputed the

conclusions, saying its own health-economic

models suggest the vaccine is worth the cost. " We

believe there's important value in vaccinating

all women who are in the indicated age groups, "

said Rick Haupt, Merck's head of clinical

research for Gardasil. Ms. Kim and Harvard

colleague Sue Goldie concluded that it cost about

$43,600 per " quality-adjusted life year " gained,

when HPV vaccine is administered to 12- year-old

girls. This falls below the $50,000 per quality-

adjusted life year threshold that some

researchers use as a maximum for

cost-effectiveness. Other researchers use a

higher maximum benchmark of $100,000 per QALY to

gauge cost-effectiveness. It would cost $97,300

per QALY, however, to vaccinate girls and women

through age 18, $120,400 per QALY for girls and

women up to age 21, and $152,700 for girls and

women up to age 26. The cost-effectiveness

becomes more attractive when protection against genital warts is factored in.

The researchers arrived at these numbers by

projecting HPV infection rates in various age

groups, gauging the effectiveness of the vaccine

and estimating cervical-cancer screening rates.

Screening via Pap smear is recommended for women

who are sexually active, even with the availability of Gardasil.

The screenings can detect pre-cancerous lesions

that can be removed; the availability of these

tests has helped reduce the cervical-cancer death

rate in the U.S. dramatically since the 1950s.

Merck's Dr. Haupt said the company's own models

show that the cost per QALY is " well under

$50,000 " for women up to age 26. Among the

differences between the models were that the

Harvard researchers included patient time and

travel costs, while Merck didn't, and the Harvard

researchers didn't include genital warts in

males, while Merck did, according to the CDC.

At least one of the factors in the primary

Harvard calculations may be a relatively

optimistic assumption -- that vaccination would

produce lifelong immunity. Because the vaccine

was only studied for five years and has been on

the market for two years, no one knows for

certain if its protection is lifelong, or if it wanes over time.

The Harvard researchers concluded that the cost

per QALY would rise if the vaccine's effect wanes after 10 years.

Merck says the vaccine will offer protection well

beyond five years, Dr. Haupt said. The Merck

economic model that arrived at the cost per QALY

below $50,000 assumed lifelong immunity, he said.

Still, the study is likely to fuel skepticism

about Gardasil, which has already faced questions

surrounding its safety and effectiveness (Merck

and the CDC maintain it is safe and effective,

with the most common side effect being soreness at site of injection.)

Now hold on one hormonal minute....

by Carol Botha and H. Chevalier- Batik

Special report on vaccinating adolescent girls requested by NVIC

August 21, 2008

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Why has there not been any mention of the

potentially adverse effects of Merck's cervical

cancer vaccination, Gardasil® in relationship to

the timing of the vaccination and where a young

woman is in her menstrual cycle? This information

is especially critical considering the

vaccination is recommended for adolescent girls

from the age of nine to young women up to 26-years.

Why is it that women are constantly forced into a

male medical model which blatantly ignores their

menstrual health and administers drugs,

surgeries, and vaccinations without any regard to

where women are in their hormone cycle?

This is outrageous. Even though women are asked

to fill out the date of their last menstrual

period (LMP) that information is used primarily

to note that a woman is not pregnant. But it is

much more valuable than that; the date of the LMP

could actually be indicative of why that woman is

in the doctor's office to begin with.

Every cycling woman, who is aware of the changes

that her body goes through prior to menstruation,

knows that she is more prone to infections,

colds, fatigue, irritability and a general

feeling of malaise at this time. All of these

issues are a direct result of hormonal changes

that are cycling through her entire body, from

the brain right on down to the uterus. Why

haven't the clinical researchers, FDA/CDC

oversight committees, gynecologists,

pediatricians or family practice physicians who

have approved and administered Gardasil®,

considered how the injection of this chemical

cocktail might affect a still maturing female

body that is least able to defend itself during the paramenstrum?*

As the female hormone levels of estrogen and

progesterone decrease during the premenstrual

phase, the female body begins the process of

releasing the uterine lining in the act of

menstruation. The decrease in hormones actually

affects a woman's energy levels and her emotions.

The immune system becomes more compromised, and

that translates to a lowered defense system to

fight off invading, foreign toxins.

Due to limited access to women's menstrual health

education, many women are totally unaware of the

systemic aspects of their feminine hormone cycle.

The medical, pharmaceutical industrial complex

continues to ignore the premenstrual phase of

menstrual cycle as a factor in testing and

administration of drugs and vaccines. The only

question women have to ask themselves is, " Is

that policy based in ignorance, arrogance or methodical design? "

In her 1977 groundbreaking book, " The

Premenstrual Syndrome " , Katharina Dalton noted

that drug reactions " ....are common during the

premenstruum and may follow administration of

antibiotics and inoculations. Confusion may occur

as to the real origin of such reactions. In

double-blind, clinical trials the placebo drugs

are often reported to have side effects such as

increased drowsiness, headache, nausea, or

increased pain; which may be no more than the

usual premenstrual symptoms which have not been

meticulously observed and reported. " 1.

Dalton's work is intriguing and her studies

compelling. However, feminists dismissed the book

and the author in the 1980's, because the premise

was considered damning to women suffering from

premenstrual syndrome. Dalton stated in the

preface to her book, " ....In those days we

believed that the premenstrual syndrome was a

rare condition, but we know now that it is the

world's commonest, and probably oldest, disease. " 2.

Classifying PMS as a disease provided the

pharmaceutical and medical industry the leveraged

justification that they skillfully exploited to

extort billions of dollars from the systematic

the medicalization of women's bodies.

Fortunately, there is a growing body of clinical

researchers, health practitioners, university

professors, media professionals, feminists, and

lay people who are beginning to realize that the

menstrual cycle is not an illness or disease.

Menstruation is becoming recognized as a natural

cycle, that when understood and experienced

holistically, could add healthy years to women's lives.

Regrettably, Dalton's work concerning

premenstrual syndrome as it related to common

drug reactions during the premenstruum was

ignored - the issue denied; and many women have

suffered in the past 40-years. The

pharmaceutical, medical industrial complex filled

the void of our self-knowledge and lack of

understanding with calculated marketing campaigns

that methodically exploited every aspect of a woman's natural cycle.

Gardasil®, as well as other immunizations

administered to adolescent women, are dispensed

without regard to where a woman is within her

menstrual cycle. During Gardasil®'s, clinical

trial period, FDA approval, and during the two

years it has been on the market, not one article

has been written about how a young woman might

tolerate the injection during premenstruum; nor

is there any information in the Patient Product

Information or the Prescribing Information on the

Gardasil® web site, that cites any corollary to

adverse reactions to the injection in relationship to the menstrual cycle.

Withholding this information is nothing less than a crime against women.

Jump in US measles cases linked to vaccine fears

by Mike Stobbe

Associated Press

August 21, 2008

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Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest

level in more than a decade, with nearly half of

those involving children whose parents rejected

vaccination, health officials reported Thursday.

Worried doctors are troubled by the trend fueled

by unfounded fears that vaccines may cause

autism. The number of cases is still small, just

131, but that's only for the first seven months

of the year. There were only 42 cases for all of last year.

" We're seeing a lot more spread. That is

concerning to us, " said Dr. Jane Seward, of the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pediatricians are frustrated, saying they are

having to spend more time convincing parents the

shot is safe. " This year, we certainly have had

parents asking more questions, " said Dr. Ari

Brown, an Austin, Texas, physician who is a

spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The CDC's review found that a number of cases

involved home-schooled children not required to

get the vaccines. Others can avoid vaccination by

seeking exemptions, such as for religious reasons.

Measles, best known for a red skin rash, is a

potentially deadly, highly infectious virus that

spreads through contact with a sneezing, coughing, infected person.

It is no longer endemic to the United States, but

every year cases enter the country through

foreign visitors or Americans returning from

abroad. Measles epidemics have exploded in

Israel, Switzerland and some other countries. But

high U.S. childhood vaccination rates have prevented major outbreaks here.

In a typical year, only one outbreak occurs in

the United States, infecting perhaps 10 to 20

people. So far this year through July 30 the

country has seen seven outbreaks, including one

in Illinois with 30 cases, said Seward, of the

CDC's Division of Viral Diseases.

None of the 131 patients died, but 15 were hospitalized.

Childhood measles vaccination rates have stayed

above 92 percent, according to 2006 data.

However, the recent outbreaks suggest potential

pockets of unvaccinated children are forming.

Health officials worry that vaccination rates

have begun to fall - something that won't show up

in the data for a couple of years.

The vaccine is considered highly effective but

not perfect; 11 of this year's cases had at least one dose of the vaccine.

Of this year's total, 122 were unvaccinated or

had unknown vaccination status. Some were

unvaccinated because the children were under age

1 - too young to get their first measles shot.

In 63 of those cases - almost all of them 19 or

under - the patient or their parents refused the

shots for philosophical or religious reasons, the CDC reported.

In Washington state, an outbreak was traced to a

church conference, including 16 school-aged

children who were not vaccinated. Eleven of those

kids were home schooled and not subject to

vaccination rules in public schools. It's unclear

why the parents rejected the vaccine.

The Illinois outbreak - triggered by a teenager

who had traveled to Italy - included 25 home-

schooled children, according to the CDC report.

The nation once routinely saw hundreds of

thousands of measles cases each year, and

hundreds of deaths. But immunization campaigns

were credited with dramatically reducing the

numbers. The last time health officials saw this

many cases was 1997, when 138 were reported.

The Academy of Pediatrics has made educating

parents about the safety of vaccines one of its

top priorities this year. That's partly because

busy doctors have grown frustrated by the amount

of time they're spending answering parents'

questions about things they read on the Internet or heard from TV talk shows.

In June, the CDC interviewed 33 physicians in

Austin, suburban Seattle and Hollywood, Fla.,

about childhood vaccinations. Several complained

about patient backlogs caused by parents stirred

up by information of dubious scientific merit, according to the CDC report.

Questions commonly center on autism and the fear

that it can be caused by the measles shots or by

a mercury-based preservative that used to be in

most vaccines. Health officials say there is no

good scientific proof either is a cause. Also,

since 2001, the preservative has been removed

from shots recommended for young children, and it

was never in the measles-mumps-rubella

combination vaccine. It can still be found in some flu shots.

Brown said she wrote a 16-page, single-spaced

document for parents that explains childhood

vaccinations and why doctors do not believe they

cause autism. She began handing it out this

spring, and thinks it's been a help to parents and a time-saver for her.

" People want that level of information, " she

said. At least one outbreak this year of another

preventable disease was blamed on lack of

immunizations. At least 17 children were sick

with whooping cough at a private school in the

San Francisco Bay area, and 13 were not

vaccinated against the disease, which can be fatal to children.

Associated Press writer Marcus Wohlsen in San

Francisco contributed to this story.

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Are Some Parents To Blame for Measles Outbreak?

by Yamada

WUSA9-TV (Washington, D.C.)

August 21, 2008

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(WUSA) -- Measles cases in the U.S. are at their

highest level in a decade. The Centers for

Disease Control says nearly half of those cases

involve children whose parents have made a

conscious choice not to get them vaccinated.

But are they doing that for valid reasons? " He

was advanced for his age. He was talking when he

was 11 months old, " recalls Delean. The

father of 4 says everything changed after his now

9 year old son who has autism was vaccinated

against measles, mumps, and rubella or MMR. It

was like that was it. He never talked again, he

still doesn't talk. He has about 10 words, " he

says, adding, " it really devastated our family. I just destroyed us. "

Testimonials like that have led some parents to

shun vaccinations altogether. The Centers for

Disease Control says measles cases have

dramatically increased from 42 cases in all of

last year to 131 in just the first seven months

of this year because of parents who are rejecting

the MMR vaccine for their kids.

" It doesn't serve us well when we have government

officials trying to create fear and anxiety " says

Barbara Loe Fisher with the National Vaccine

Information Center. She says some parents opt out

of immunizations for religious or philosophical

reasons. Others have said no because their kids

have had adverse reactions to the vaccines that

are usually given on a set schedule. " Right now

we're seeing a one-size fits all approach to

vaccination that doesn't really recognize that

children are different, that children react

differently to vaccinations, " she says.

That may be the case but the CC insists there's

no link between vaccines and autism and not

vaccinating puts people at risk. " If you don't

immunize like we saw in Britain, there was a

resurgence of measles, in many countries like

China " says Rosemarie McLaren, the program

manager for the DC immunization program.

But even with that warning, Delean says " I advise

other people to be be very careful. Look at your

child, don't look at the general population. "

In land, Virginia and the District, by law,

children are not allowed to go to school unless

they've been vaccinated or given an exemption.

Some parents who have a problem with that opt to

home school their children. But the numbers show

a majority of parents have faith in vaccinations.

The nationwide vaccination rate is 92 percent.

Written by Yamada

9NEWS NOW

National Vaccine Information Center

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