Spain Withdraws Gardasil After Illnesses

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Spain Withdraws Gardasil After Illnesses

 

Spanish health authorities have withdrawn tens of thousands of doses of

Gardasil, a vaccine against the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), after two

teenagers who received the shots were hospitalized.

The two girls were vaccinated last week as part of a vast government program

targeting adolescents. A batch of nearly 76,000 doses of the vaccine has been

withdrawn from the market.

The vaccine has been available since 2006.

Since its launch in 2006, 40 million doses of the Gardasil vaccine have been

distributed worldwide, amidst a rash of side effects and complaints. At least

Spanish health authorities were quick to act this time, when two girls became

seriously ill just hours after receiving the shot.

In response, close to 76,000 doses of Gardasil were withdrawn from the market,

all of them part of batch NH52670. Unfortunately, this is not a move to pull the

vaccine from the market entirely; only use of shots from this particular batch

has been suspended.

I don’t know what more health officials from all over the world could be

waiting for to let them know how potentially dangerous this vaccine actually is.

Over 10,000 adverse reactions, including 29 deaths, have been reported to the

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in relation to Gardasil -- and

that is just from the United States.

Although Merck, which manufactures Gardasil, has reported a 16 percent decline

in quarterly sales of the vaccine, and said it expects sales this year to be

lower than expected, a massive campaign is still underway urging young girls to

get vaccinated and become “one less†victim to cervical cancer.

This is going on in many parts of the world, including in Sweden, which recently

announced all primary school girls will be able to be vaccinated with Gardasil

for free starting in 2010.

Merck has also been pushing for an expansion of uses for Gardasil. In the U..S.,

the vaccine can also be promoted to prevent two rare vaginal and vulvar cancers,

and Merck just recently filed for FDA approval to use Gardasil for boys!

What Types of Risks Does Gardasil Pose?

Side effects including paralysis and death have been reported in relation to

Gardasil, among many, many others. Yet, on October 21, 2008 the Centers for

Disease Control (CDC) in association with the FDA released a report alleging

that the vast majority, or even ALL, of the 10,000+ adverse reactions reported

are not related to the vaccine. Therefore, they say, Gardasil is safe.

How did they come to this conclusion? Only the investigators know, and the

information is not being made public so independent researchers can make their

own decisions.

Well, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which was co-founded by

Barbara Loe Fisher, one of the top vaccine experts in the world, is now calling

for the CDC and FDA to publicly release the study design, data, and names of

principal investigators involved.

To not properly evaluate the risks of Gardasil, they say, is “a callous

disregard for human life.†As Fisher said:

 “Parents of young girls and women cut down in their prime -- some of them

paralyzed or dead within hours or days of getting Gardasil vaccine -- deserve

better answers than a whitewashing of this vaccine’s very serious side

effects.â€

On NVIC’s Web site, you can read several stories of women and girls who have

been seriously injured, and in some cases died, shortly after receiving this

vaccine, including:

• Tarsell, a 21-year-old college student majoring in studio arts at

Bard College, who died suddenly and without explanation shortly after receiving

the third Gardasil shot in June 2008.

• le, a 15-year-old former gymnast and cheerleader who can no longer

attend school and is suffering from severe headaches, heart problems and

seizures since getting the vaccine. She has been diagnosed with Inflammation of

the Central Nervous System as a result of a Gardasil vaccine reaction, and her

condition continues to deteriorate.

• , a 20-year-old college student who died suddenly, without explanation,

about one month after receiving her third Gardasil shot. No cause of death was

found.

• , a 16-year-old who became chronically ill after receiving Gardasil,

and now suffers regular life-threatening episodes of seizure-like activity,

difficulty breathing, back spasms, paralysis, dehydration, memory loss and

tremors.

Sadly, Merck only studied the Gardasil vaccine in fewer than 1,200 girls under

16 prior to it being released to the market, and most of the serious side

effects that occurred during the pre-licensure clinical trials were merely

called a “coincidence.â€

It is beyond me how that explanation can hold water, considering all the bad

press coming out about this vaccine. NVIC has been following the risks of

Gardasil closely, and just released a new analysis comparing the vaccine to

another for meningitis (Menactra). They found, compared to Menactra, Gardasil

was associated with:

• At least twice as many emergency room visit reports (5,021)

• Four times as many death reports (29)

• Seven times as many disabled reports (261)

• Three to six times more fainting reports

Further, there have been a dizzying array of reactions reported among girls who

received Gardasil alone, without any other vaccines, such as:

• 34 reports of thrombosis

• 27 reports of lupus

• 23 reports of blood clots

• 16 reports of stroke

• 11 reports of vasculitis

• 544 reports of seizures

On top of this, in the VAERS database there are 467 “rechallenge†reports,

which involve cases where there was a worsening of symptoms after a repeated

vaccination -- and nearly 60 percent of them are for Gardasil!

What Makes The Gardasil Vaccine Even More of a Rip-Off?

It’s intended to prevent a virus (human papilloma virus, or HPV) your body can

clear up on its own, and does so more than 90 percent of the time!

At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV

infection at some point in their lives, according to the National Prevention

Information Network (NPIN). Most often, the infection causes no symptoms at all,

and is easily cleared up by your immune system. In some cases the infection can

result in genital warts, and much less often, cervical and other genital

cancers.

Even the National Cancer Institute says:

" It is important to note, however, that the great majority of high-risk HPV

infections go away on their own and do not cause cancer. "

 

So while Merck would like you to hear that 6 million women contract HPV annually

-- they do not tell you most of those cases are harmless. Cervical cancer

actually claims less than 3,900 women a year -- most of which are due to not

getting regular Pap smears.

You should also know that Gardasil does not protect against all types of HPV,

and you can still get cervical cancer even if you’ve been vaccinated. As the

CDC states: 

“About 30% of cervical cancers will not be prevented by the vaccine..â€

What this all boils down to is that Gardasil is largely ineffective, potentially

very dangerous and a major waste of money.

If you are a parent considering the Gardasil vaccine for your daughter, you

would likely be far better off teaching her how to keep her immune system strong

and healthy -- and discussing the realities of sexually transmitted diseases and

how to avoid them -- than having her injected with this worthless vaccine.

Sources:

  AFP February 10, 2009

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