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		<title>Malia and Gardasil Vaccine: What Will Michelle Obama Do?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter where you stand within the American, political color-spectrum, Reds and Blues all agree: Michelle Obama is a fiercely protective Momma. To my mind that is a very good thing. However as the Adverse Reactions to the HPV vaccine Garasil continue to mount, I find myself asking WWMOD? What Will Michelle Obama DO?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><em><strong>Will <em><strong>Malia and</strong></em> Sasha</strong><strong>Obama be TWO More Girls Put at Risk </strong></em></h2>
<h2><em><strong>by The HPV Vaccine, Gardasil</strong></em><em><br />
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<p><em>Malia Obama celebrated her 11th birthday over the Fourth of July weekend. The  festivities included a Camp David birthday party with about 20 of her friends and as part of America&#8217;s first family, hosting 1,200 military families for a Fourth of July barbecue on the White House South Lawn. </em></p>
<p><em>As I looked at the happy images of Malia, Sasha and their mom, the formidable Michelle Obama, I still wonder WWMOD, What Will Michelle Obama DO? I first ask the question a few months ago as additional states seemed poised to mandate the HPV vaccine Gardasil for all school girls, some legislation targeting girls as young as the age of ten.  In 2007, Virginia, the District of Columbia&#8217;s very close southern neighbor passed House Bill 2035 requiring that 12 year-olds girls be vaccinated for the sexually transmitted disease Human papillomavirus (HPV). So as Malia, and soon Sasha enter the targeted demographic, I again ask the question,  WWMOD <strong>—What Will Michelle Obama Do?</strong></em></p>
<p>No matter where you stand within the American, political color-spectrum, Reds and Blues all agree: Michelle Obama is a fiercely protective Momma. To my mind that is a very good thing. However as the Adverse Reactions to the HPV vaccine Garasil continue to mount, I find myself asking <strong>WWMOD?</strong> <strong>What Will Michelle Obama DO?</strong></p>
<p>Like many moms out there she wants what is best for her girls. At 7 and 11years old, Sasha and Malia are in Merck&#8217;s TARGETED demographic. Thanks to some well-spent lobby-bucks several States mandated Gardasil vaccinations. The parents of those public school girls might not have the choices available to Mrs. Obama.</p>
<p>Several months ago, President Obama stated that his youngest liked PB&amp;J sandwiches and she has a right to expect a safe sandwich. Sasha, Malia and every other American girl have a right to expect safe vaccines. MERCK is experimenting with the reproductive systems of an entire generation of young woman… so what, if anything with President Obama do to insure the safety of his as well as all the other girls of this nation?<br />
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<h2><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>NVIC Petitions White House and Congress to Investigate Gardasil</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"> </span></p>
<p>On February 9, the NVIC launched a <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aGVwZXRpdGlvbnNpdGUuY29tLzE0L2ludmVzdGlnYXRlLWdhcmRhc2lsLXZhY2NpbmUtcmlza3Mtbm93" target=\"_blank\">petition </a>and issued a <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5idXNpbmVzc3dpcmUuY29tL3BvcnRhbC9zaXRlL2hvbWUvcGVybWFsaW5rLz9uZG1WaWV3SWQ9bmV3c192aWV3JmFtcDtuZXdzSWQ9MjAwOTAyMDkwMDUzNTgmYW1wO25ld3NMYW5nPWVu" target=\"_blank\">national press release</a> calling on President Barack Obama, his Administration and Congress, to investigate the fast track licensure and universal use recommendation of Gardasil in 2006, and the dismissal of more than 10,000 reports of Gardasil-related reactions, injuries and deaths to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System as a &#8220;coincidence&#8221; by federal health officials.</p>
<p>NVIC&#8217;s latest <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy8=" target=\"_blank\">Gardasil risk report</a>, which compares the number and severity of adverse events reported to VAERS through November 30, 2008, reveals that death and serious health problems such as stroke, blood clots, cardiac arrest, seizures, fainting, lupus and rechallenge cases are reported three to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil vaccination than after meningococcal (Menactra) vaccination.<br />
Barbara Loe Fisher explains the significance of this fact:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“If the deaths and serious injuries reported after Gardasil were only a &#8220;coincidence,&#8221; there would be little or no difference between the frequency and severity of vaccine-related adverse events between two vaccines, if the vaccines were equally reactive, and the number of doses were roughly the same.</em></p>
<p><em>Gardasil and Menactra vaccines were licensed within a year of each other and recommended by the CDC for universal use in 11-12 year olds. </em></p>
<p><em>Although Menactra is given to boys and girls and has already been mandated in many states for high school and college entry, Gardasil is only given to girls and is not yet mandated. </em></p>
<p><em>Menatra is given as a one-dose series and, by February 25, 2008, the CDC reported that about <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L3ZhY2NpbmVzYWZldHkvY29uY2VybnMvZ2JzZmFjdHNoZWV0Lmh0bQ==" target=\"_blank\">15.5 million doses of Menactra </a>had been distributed in the U.S.. Gardasil is given in a three dose series and the CDC reported that, by July 2008, about <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L3ZhY2NpbmVzYWZldHkvdmFlcnMvRkRBX2FuZF9DRENfU3RhdGVtZW50Lmh0bQ==" target=\"_blank\">16 million doses </a>had been distributed in the U.S.</em></p>
<p><em>This means that about 15 million doses of Menactra were given to about 15 million boys and/or girls and about 16 million doses of Gardasil &#8211; if every girl got three doses &#8211; were given to about five million girls. </em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-right: 0px;" dir="ltr"><p><em>It is individuals &#8211; not doses of vaccine &#8211; who collapse, convulse, become paralyzed, have heart attacks, develop lupus and other chronic health problems after being vaccinated. The fact that death and serious health problems are reported 3 to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil than after Menactra is highly significant and it is irresponsible for federal health officials and Merck to blow it off as unimportant.” </em></p></blockquote>
<h2><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>What Does Merck Have to Say About it?</strong></span></h2>
<p>It’s incomprehensible that the CDC, FDA, and Merck &#8212; the makers of Gardasil – cannot see the facts presented in this VAERS analysis, and choose instead to cling to worn-out propaganda slogans and pre-written advertising messages that fly in the face of reason.</p>
<p>In the hours before a resent CBS News broadcast, Merck addressed the differences between adverse events associated with Gardasil and Menactra as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to remember that the proven benefit of GARDASIL is that it helps prevent cervical cancer caused by the two virus types responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. </em></p>
<p><em>Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of our products and we carefully monitor the safety of GARDASIL on a routine basis. Experts at the FDA and CDC also continue to review data and, as recently as four months ago, said &#8220;GARDASIL continues to be safe and effective, and its benefits continue to outweigh its risks.&#8221; </em></p>
<p><em>NVIC is not a medical organization and has a long history of raising concerns about vaccines that are in direct conflict with the opinion of leading medical experts. We encourage consumers to get reliable information about the safety of vaccines from www.cdc.gov.&#8221;</em></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Spain</strong><strong> Already Removed the Vaccine</strong></span></h2>
<p>Spain has, recently <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL25ld3MueWFob28uY29tL3MvYWZwLzIwMDkwMjEwL2hsX2FmcC9zcGFpbmhlYWx0aGNhbmNlcnZhY2NpbmU=">withdrawn 75, 000 doses of the HPV vaccine</a> from their market, after two teenagers who received the shots were hospitalized.</p>
<p>Seems  they weren’t as influenced by the drug company’s rhetoric as U.S. authorities, and are more concerned about the safety of their citizens.</p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Get Involved and Help Save the Daughters of This Nation</strong></span></p>
<p>Says Fisher:</p>
<blockquote style="margin-right: 0px;" dir="ltr"><p><em>“In the past 27 years, the stories of death and brain damage that have been reported to the NVIC have never changed. Whether the vaccine victims are 15 months old or 15 years old, the stories are the same: a trusting parent took a bright, healthy child to a doctor for a routine vaccination and the child was never the same again.</em></p>
<p><em>The Gardasil vaccine was inappropriately fast tracked and licensed by the FDA and recommended by the CDC with too little attention paid to the reports of brain and immune system dysfunction that developed after vaccination in pre-licensure clinical trials.</em></p>
<p><em>That same cavalier attitude toward Gardasil-related deaths and serious health problems, which have been experienced by many girls and young women after licensure, is inexcusable.”<br />
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Most Americans have blindly placed their trust in the vaccine makers and in federal health agencies, whose responsibility is to ensure that drugs and vaccines licensed for public use are safe, effective and necessary.</p></blockquote>
<p>However, over the years it has become very clear that those responsible for protecting your health are not looking out for your best interest and that of your children.</p>
<p>And if they won’t do it, then it is up to you and me to do it.</p>
<p>I urge you to sign the <em>Investigate Gardasil Vaccine Risks Now!</em> petition available on the <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy8=">http://www.NVIC.org</a> web site that my team helped create for them.</p>
<p>If you believe strongly in NVIC&#8217;s effort to inform the  public about these types of issues, you can <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuZ3JvdW5kc3ByaW5nLm9yZy9kbi9pbmRleC5waHA/YWlkPTIyMzU0">support their cause by making a donation</a> of $25 or more to NVIC and receive a gift of Barbara&#8217;s 2008 book <em>Vaccines, Autism &amp; Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic</em>. Click <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuZ3JvdW5kc3ByaW5nLm9yZy9kbi9pbmRleC5waHA/YWlkPTIyMzU0">HERE</a> to make a donation.</p>
<p>You may also print out this NVIC <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL21lcmNvbGEuZmlsZWJ1cnN0LmNvbS9QREYvbnZpYy1mbHllci12YWNjaW5hdGlvbnMucGRm">flyer detailing how to recognize a vaccine reaction</a>.</p>
<p>Says Fisher:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In 2009, I have a sense of déjà vu as the story of Gardasil vaccine plays out real time. There are striking parallels between how those operating the mass vaccination system reacted in the 1980&#8242;s to persistent reports that the DPT vaccine was harming more children than originally assumed, and the way they are reacting now to persistent reports that Gardasil is more reactive than it was originally assumed.</em></p>
<p><em>Assumption of safety is no substitute for proof of safety. </em></p>
<p><em>And turning away from human suffering in order to protect the status quo is not the way to run a government that needs the trust and support of the people.<br />
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<p><em>In the 18th century, Queen Marie Antoinette looked down at a starving people pleading for bread to stay alive and said &#8220;Let them eat cake.&#8221; It is time for everyone in government, industry and medicine to take a different approach to persistent reports of vaccine injuries and deaths or risk metaphorically suffering the same fate that ended the monarchy in France. </em></p>
<p><em>In the 21st century, today&#8217;s peasants don&#8217;t have pitchforks &#8211; they have laptops, desktops, smartphones and the internet.” </em></p></blockquote>
<p>I strongly urge you to join in petitioning our new U.S. administration and Congress to take a close, hard look at the HPV vaccine, to end the needless suffering of tens of thousands of young, bright, innocent girls.</p>
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		<title>HPV Vaccine, Garasil, Blamed for Teen&#8217;s Paralysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>“The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is playing out real time in the homes of trusting parents, who thought they were doing the right thing to try to make their daughters &#8220;one less,&#8221; and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as on television.”</em></p></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><strong>Barbara Loe Fisher, President and co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC):</strong></p>
<p>The Gardasil Marketing campaign is one of egregious deception. With its catchy tune and wholesome images, mothers and Doctors who don’t take the time to do their own research are drawn into a misleading, intricately drawn lie. Merck has come up with a billion dollar fix to a non-existent problem. Cervical cancer is no longer a clear and present danger to modern teenagers with access to normal preventative health care and PAP tests. We are putting a generation of young women at risk and ‘playing dice’ with the reproductive future of our nation.  The FDA, CDC and a raft of either uncaring, or simply corrupt, political hacks are taking Merck’s money and looking the other way, while an unsafe drug and a flawed medical hypothesis are irreparably harming our girls and bankrupting public health care coffers.</p>
<p>While the FDA and CDC refuse to take action, well-meaning mothers are being deceived into thinking the Gardasil HPV vaccination  will protect their daughters from cervical cancer, and some of them are now wondering HOW and WHY their young child died or became suddenly paralyzed.</p>
<h3>Another GARDASIL VICTIM&#8217;S Story</h3>
<p>A month after 13 year old Jenny Tetlock was vaccinated against the HPV virus, she missed the lowest hurdle in gym class. It was the first sign of a degenerative muscle disease that 15 months later left her nearly completely paralyzed.</p>
<p>Her father, Philip Tetlock, a professor at UC-Berkeley, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine, Gardasil, is to blame.</p>
<p><a name="read_more"></a>Tetlock is not the only one concerned. The public watchdog group Judicial Watch has been periodically obtaining adverse event reports on Gardasil from the FDA. 10 deaths have been linked to Gardasil since September 2007, and there have been 140 reports so far this year of serious side effects such as miscarriage and Guillain-Barré syndrome.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #993300;"><span class="RatedArticles">Sources:</span></span></h3>
<div class="shiftleft"><span id="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_rptSources_ctl01_cslSource"><a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy51c25ld3MuY29tL2Jsb2dzL29uLXdvbWVuLzIwMDgvNy8yL2lzLWhwdi12YWNjaW5lLXRvLWJsYW1lLWZvci1hLXRlZW5zLXBhcmFseXNpcy5odG1s">U.S. News and World Report July 2, 2008</a></span></div>
<p><span id="ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_rptSources_ctl02_cslSource"><a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qdWRpY2lhbHdhdGNoLm9yZy9kb2N1bWVudHMvMjAwOC9KV1JlcG9ydEZEQWhwdlZhY2NpbmVSZWNvcmRzLnBkZg==">A Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA’s HPV Vaccine Records June 30, 2008</a></span></p>
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		<title>Gardasil—What Will Michelle Obama Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><em><strong>Will  Sasha and Malia </strong><strong>Obama be TWO More Girls Put at Risk </strong></em></h2>
<h2><em><strong>by The HPV Vaccine, Gardasil</strong></em><em><br />
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<p>No matter where you stand within the American, political color-spectrum, Reds and Blues all agree: Michelle Obama is a fiercely protective Momma. To my mind that is a very good thing. However as the Adverse Reactions to the HPV vaccine Garasil continue to mount, I find myself asking <strong>WWMOD?</strong> <strong>What Will Michelle Obama DO?</strong></p>
<p>Like many moms out there she wants what is best for her girls. At 7 and 11years old, Sasha and Malia are in Merck&#8217;s TARGETED demographic. Thanks to some well-spent lobby-bucks several States mandated Gardasil vaccinations. The parents of those public school girls might not have the choices available to Mrs. Obama.</p>
<p>Several months ago, President Obama stated that his youngest liked PB&amp;J sandwiches and she has a right to expect a safe sandwich. Sasha, Malia and every other American girl have a right to expect safe vaccines. MERCK is experimenting with the reproductive systems of an entire generation of young woman… so what, if anything with President Obama do to insure the safety of his as well as all the other girls of this nation?<br />
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<h2><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>NVIC Petitions White House and Congress to Investigate Gardasil</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"> </span></p>
<p>On February 9, the NVIC launched a <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aGVwZXRpdGlvbnNpdGUuY29tLzE0L2ludmVzdGlnYXRlLWdhcmRhc2lsLXZhY2NpbmUtcmlza3Mtbm93" target=\"_blank\">petition </a>and issued a <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5idXNpbmVzc3dpcmUuY29tL3BvcnRhbC9zaXRlL2hvbWUvcGVybWFsaW5rLz9uZG1WaWV3SWQ9bmV3c192aWV3JmFtcDtuZXdzSWQ9MjAwOTAyMDkwMDUzNTgmYW1wO25ld3NMYW5nPWVu" target=\"_blank\">national press release</a> calling on President Barack Obama, his Administration and Congress, to investigate the fast track licensure and universal use recommendation of Gardasil in 2006, and the dismissal of more than 10,000 reports of Gardasil-related reactions, injuries and deaths to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System as a &#8220;coincidence&#8221; by federal health officials.</p>
<p>NVIC&#8217;s latest <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy8=" target=\"_blank\">Gardasil risk report</a>, which compares the number and severity of adverse events reported to VAERS through November 30, 2008, reveals that death and serious health problems such as stroke, blood clots, cardiac arrest, seizures, fainting, lupus and rechallenge cases are reported three to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil vaccination than after meningococcal (Menactra) vaccination.<br />
Barbara Loe Fisher explains the significance of this fact:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“If the deaths and serious injuries reported after Gardasil were only a &#8220;coincidence,&#8221; there would be little or no difference between the frequency and severity of vaccine-related adverse events between two vaccines, if the vaccines were equally reactive, and the number of doses were roughly the same.</em></p>
<p><em>Gardasil and Menactra vaccines were licensed within a year of each other and recommended by the CDC for universal use in 11-12 year olds. </em></p>
<p><em>Although Menactra is given to boys and girls and has already been mandated in many states for high school and college entry, Gardasil is only given to girls and is not yet mandated. </em></p>
<p><em>Menatra is given as a one-dose series and, by February 25, 2008, the CDC reported that about <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L3ZhY2NpbmVzYWZldHkvY29uY2VybnMvZ2JzZmFjdHNoZWV0Lmh0bQ==" target=\"_blank\">15.5 million doses of Menactra </a>had been distributed in the U.S.. Gardasil is given in a three dose series and the CDC reported that, by July 2008, about <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L3ZhY2NpbmVzYWZldHkvdmFlcnMvRkRBX2FuZF9DRENfU3RhdGVtZW50Lmh0bQ==" target=\"_blank\">16 million doses </a>had been distributed in the U.S.</em></p>
<p><em>This means that about 15 million doses of Menactra were given to about 15 million boys and/or girls and about 16 million doses of Gardasil &#8211; if every girl got three doses &#8211; were given to about five million girls. </em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-right: 0px;" dir="ltr"><p><em>It is individuals &#8211; not doses of vaccine &#8211; who collapse, convulse, become paralyzed, have heart attacks, develop lupus and other chronic health problems after being vaccinated. The fact that death and serious health problems are reported 3 to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil than after Menactra is highly significant and it is irresponsible for federal health officials and Merck to blow it off as unimportant.” </em></p></blockquote>
<h2><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>What Does Merck Have to Say About it?</strong></span></h2>
<p>It’s incomprehensible that the CDC, FDA, and Merck &#8212; the makers of Gardasil – cannot see the facts presented in this VAERS analysis, and choose instead to cling to worn-out propaganda slogans and pre-written advertising messages that fly in the face of reason.</p>
<p>In the hours before a resent CBS News broadcast, Merck addressed the differences between adverse events associated with Gardasil and Menactra as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to remember that the proven benefit of GARDASIL is that it helps prevent cervical cancer caused by the two virus types responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. </em></p>
<p><em>Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of our products and we carefully monitor the safety of GARDASIL on a routine basis. Experts at the FDA and CDC also continue to review data and, as recently as four months ago, said &#8220;GARDASIL continues to be safe and effective, and its benefits continue to outweigh its risks.&#8221; </em></p>
<p><em>NVIC is not a medical organization and has a long history of raising concerns about vaccines that are in direct conflict with the opinion of leading medical experts. We encourage consumers to get reliable information about the safety of vaccines from www.cdc.gov.&#8221;</em></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Spain</strong><strong> Already Removed the Vaccine</strong></span></h2>
<p>Spain has, recently <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL25ld3MueWFob28uY29tL3MvYWZwLzIwMDkwMjEwL2hsX2FmcC9zcGFpbmhlYWx0aGNhbmNlcnZhY2NpbmU=">withdrawn 75, 000 doses of the HPV vaccine</a> from their market, after two teenagers who received the shots were hospitalized.</p>
<p>Seems  they weren’t as influenced by the drug company’s rhetoric as U.S. authorities, and are more concerned about the safety of their citizens.</p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Get Involved and Help Save the Daughters of This Nation</strong></span></p>
<p>Says Fisher:</p>
<blockquote style="margin-right: 0px;" dir="ltr"><p><em>“In the past 27 years, the stories of death and brain damage that have been reported to the NVIC have never changed. Whether the vaccine victims are 15 months old or 15 years old, the stories are the same: a trusting parent took a bright, healthy child to a doctor for a routine vaccination and the child was never the same again.</em></p>
<p><em>The Gardasil vaccine was inappropriately fast tracked and licensed by the FDA and recommended by the CDC with too little attention paid to the reports of brain and immune system dysfunction that developed after vaccination in pre-licensure clinical trials.</em></p>
<p><em></em><em>That same cavalier attitude toward Gardasil-related deaths and serious health problems, which have been experienced by many girls and young women after licensure, is inexcusable.”<br />
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Most Americans have blindly placed their trust in the vaccine makers and in federal health agencies, whose responsibility is to ensure that drugs and vaccines licensed for public use are safe, effective and necessary.</p></blockquote>
<p>However, over the years it has become very clear that those responsible for protecting your health are not looking out for your best interest and that of your children.</p>
<p>And if they won’t do it, then it is up to you and me to do it.</p>
<p>I urge you to sign the <em>Investigate Gardasil Vaccine Risks Now!</em> petition available on the <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy8=">http://www.NVIC.org</a> web site that my team helped create for them.</p>
<p>If you believe strongly in NVIC&#8217;s effort to inform the  public about these types of issues, you can <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuZ3JvdW5kc3ByaW5nLm9yZy9kbi9pbmRleC5waHA/YWlkPTIyMzU0">support their cause by making a donation</a> of $25 or more to NVIC and receive a gift of Barbara&#8217;s 2008 book <em>Vaccines, Autism &amp; Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic</em>. Click <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuZ3JvdW5kc3ByaW5nLm9yZy9kbi9pbmRleC5waHA/YWlkPTIyMzU0">HERE</a> to make a donation.</p>
<p>You may also print out this NVIC <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL21lcmNvbGEuZmlsZWJ1cnN0LmNvbS9QREYvbnZpYy1mbHllci12YWNjaW5hdGlvbnMucGRm">flyer detailing how to recognize a vaccine reaction</a>.</p>
<p>Says Fisher:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In 2009, I have a sense of déjà vu as the story of Gardasil vaccine plays out real time. There are striking parallels between how those operating the mass vaccination system reacted in the 1980&#8242;s to persistent reports that the DPT vaccine was harming more children than originally assumed, and the way they are reacting now to persistent reports that Gardasil is more reactive than it was originally assumed.</em></p>
<p><em>Assumption of safety is no substitute for proof of safety. </em></p>
<p><em>And turning away from human suffering in order to protect the status quo is not the way to run a government that needs the trust and support of the people.<br />
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<p><em>In the 18th century, Queen Marie Antoinette looked down at a starving people pleading for bread to stay alive and said &#8220;Let them eat cake.&#8221; It is time for everyone in government, industry and medicine to take a different approach to persistent reports of vaccine injuries and deaths or risk metaphorically suffering the same fate that ended the monarchy in France. </em></p>
<p><em>In the 21st century, today&#8217;s peasants don&#8217;t have pitchforks &#8211; they have laptops, desktops, smartphones and the internet.” </em></p></blockquote>
<p>I strongly urge you to join in petitioning our new U.S. administration and Congress to take a close, hard look at the HPV vaccine, to end the needless suffering of tens of thousands of young, bright, innocent girls.</p>
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		<title>NVIC Says Government Denies Gardasil Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vaccine Watchdog Group Calls for Transparency WASHINGTON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publicly release the study design, data and names of principal investigators involved in a statement this week maintaining that Gardasil vaccine is safe with no serious [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Vaccine Watchdog Group Calls for Transparency</h2>
<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publicly release the study design, data and names of principal investigators involved in a statement this week maintaining that Gardasil vaccine is safe with no serious side effects. NVIC will also be calling on the newly elected President and members of Congress to remove the nation’s vaccine safety monitoring system from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and place it in a separate entity reporting directly to Congress to restore trust in the nation’s public health laws based on federal mass vaccination policies.</p>
<p>The CDC and FDA are alleging that the vast majority &#8211; if not all &#8211; of the approximately 9,000 HPV vaccine adverse events, including 27 deaths, reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) are not causally related to the Gardasil vaccine based on internal analysis, including review of medical records of girls and women vaccinated in HMO&#8217;s participating in the federal Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project and other closed government operated databases.</p>
<p>“Transparency in government is essential to trust in government and replication is the hallmark of good science,” said NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher. “Parents of young girls and women cut down in their prime &#8211; some of them paralyzed or dead within hours or days of getting Gardasil vaccine &#8211; deserve better answers than a whitewashing of this vaccine’s very serious side effects. Until there is an independent confirmation of these unverified findings by individuals and companies without financial ties to the government or industry, it is not credible.”</p>
<p>* In June 2006 NVIC questioned the quality and quantity of Merck’s pre-licensure Gardasil vaccine safety data in girls under age 16 and, in 2007, issued three reports analyzing serious Gardasil adverse events reported to VAERS;</p>
<p>* In 2007, Merck lobbied in many states for Gardasil vaccine mandates but failed in most;</p>
<p>* During 2008, about 20 percent of all vaccine adverse event reports to VAERS were related to Gardasil even though it is not a mandated vaccine like most others;</p>
<p>* Last week, reports that Merck’s Gardasil sales are falling dramatically and are not offsetting similar declining sales of other drugs associated with safety concerns prompted Merck to lower profit projections and layoff employees.</p>
<p>NVIC (www.nvic.org) was founded in 1982 and worked with Congress on the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The non-profit watchdog group advocates for safer vaccine policies and the legal right for Americans to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination.</p>
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		<title>Mercks&#8217;s Gardasil Vaccine Not Proven Safe for Little Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure NVIC Press Release June 27, 2006 MERCK&#8217;S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure Washington, D.C. &#8211; The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the CDC&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [...]]]></description>
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<h3><em>NVIC Press </em>Release</h3>
<p>June 27, 2006</p>
<h3><strong>MERCK&#8217;S GARDASIL VACCINE NOT PROVEN SAFE FOR LITTLE GIRLS</strong><br />
National Vaccine Information Center Criticizes<br />
FDA for Fast Tracking Licensure</h3>
<p><strong>Washington, D.C.</strong> &#8211; The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling on the CDC&#8217;s <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L3ZhY2NpbmVzL3JlY3MvYWNpcC9kb3dubG9hZHMvbWluLWp1bjA2LnBkZg==" target=\"_blank\">Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) </a>to just say &#8220;no&#8221; on June 29 to recommending &#8220;universal use&#8221; of Merck&#8217;s Gardasil vaccine in all pre-adolescent girls. NVIC maintains that Merck&#8217;s clinical trials did not prove the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts is safe to give to young girls.</p>
<p>&#8220;Merck and the FDA have not been completely honest with the people about the pre-licensure clinical trials,&#8221; said NVIC president Barbara Loe Fisher. &#8220;Merck&#8217;s pre and post-licensure marketing strategy has positioned mass use of this vaccine by pre-teens as a morality play in order to avoid talking about the flawed science they used to get it licensed. This is not just about teenagers having sex, it is also about whether Gardasil has been proven safe and effective for little girls.&#8221;</p>
<p>The FDA allowed Merck to use a potentially <em>reactive aluminum containing placebo</em> as a control for most trial participants, rather than a<em> non-reactive saline solution</em> placebo.[<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjMQ==">1</a>] A reactive placebo can artificially increase the appearance of safety of an experimental drug or vaccine in a clinical trial. <em>Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum</em> and, although aluminum adjuvants have been used in vaccines for decades, they were never tested for safety in clinical trials. Merck and the FDA did not disclose how much aluminum was in the placebo.[<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjMg==">2</a>]</p>
<p>Animal and human studies have shown that aluminum can cause nerve cell death [<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjMw==">3</a>] and that vaccine aluminum adjuvants can allow aluminum to enter the brain, [<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjNA==">4</a> <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjNQ==">5</a>] as well as cause inflammation at the injection site leading to chronic joint and muscle pain and fatigue.  [<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjNg==">6</a> <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjNw==">7</a>] Nearly 90 percent of Gardasil recipients and 85 percent of aluminum placebo recipients followed-up for safety reported one or more adverse events within 15 days of vaccination, particularly at the injection site.[<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjOA==">8</a>] Pain and swelling at injection site occurred in approximately 83 percent of Gardasil and 73 percent of aluminum placebo recipients. About 60 percent of those who got Gardasil or the aluminum placebo had systemic adverse events including headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, myalgia. [<a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjOQ==">9</a> <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy9udmljLWFyY2hpdmVzL3ByZXNzcmVsZWFzZS9nYXJkYXNpbGdpcmxzLmFzcHgjMTA=">10</a>] Gardasil recipients had more serious adverse events such as headache, gastroenteritis, appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm and arthritis.</p>
<p><em><strong>&#8220;Merck and the FDA do not reveal in public documents exactly how many 9 to 15 year old girls were in the clinical trials, how many of them received hepatitis B vaccine and Gardasil simultaneously, and how many of them had serious adverse events after being injected with Gardasil or the aluminum placebo. For example, if there were less than 1,000 little girls actually injected with three doses of Gardasil, it is important to know how many had serious adverse events and how long they were followed for chronic health problems, such as juvenile arthritis.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p>According to the <em><strong>Merck product manufacturer insert</strong></em>, there was 1 case of juvenile arthritis, 2 cases of rheumatoid arthritis, 5 cases of arthritis, and 1 case of reactive arthritis out of 11,813 Gardasil recipients plus 1 case of lupus and 2 cases of arthritis out of 9,701 participants primarily receiving an aluminum containing placebo. Clinical trial investigators dismissed most of the 102 Gardasil and placebo associated serious adverse events, including 17 deaths, that occurred in the clinical trials as unrelated.</p>
<p><em><strong>&#8220;There is too little long term safety and efficacy data, especially in young girls, and too little labeling information on contraindications for the CDC to recommend Gardasil for universal use, which is a signal for states to mandate it,&#8221;</strong></em> said Fisher. <em><strong>&#8220;Nobody at Merck, the CDC or FDA know if the injection of Gardasil into all pre-teen girls &#8211; especially simultaneously with hepatitis B vaccine &#8211; will make some of them more likely to develop arthritis or other inflammatory autoimmune and brain disorders as teenagers and adults. With cervical cancer causing about one percent of all cancer deaths in American women due to routine pap screening, it was inappropriate for the FDA to fast track Gardasil. It is way too early to direct all young girls to get three doses of a vaccine that has not been proven safe or effective in their age group.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<p>The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), founded in 1982 by parents of vaccine injured children, has been a leading critic of one-size-fits-all mass vaccination policies and the lack of basic science research into biological mechanisms and high risk factors for vaccine-induced brain and immune system dysfunction.  <em><strong>As a member of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), Barbara Loe Fisher urged trials include adequate safety data on pre-adolescent children and warned against fast tracking Gardasil at the November 28-29, 2001 VRBPAC meeting .</strong></em></p>
<p>Full 2001 FDA Transcript: <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mZGEuZ292L29ocm1zL2RvY2tldHMvYWMvY2JlcjAxLmh0bSNWYWNjaW5lcyUyMCZhbXA7JTIwUmVsYXRlZCUyMEJpb2xvZ2ljYWw=" target=\"_blank\">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/cber01.htm#Vaccines &amp; Related Biological</a></p>
<p>For more information go to <a href="http://iconicwoman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-feed-statistics/feed-statistics.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5udmljLm9yZy8=">www.NVIC.org</a>.</p>
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<h3>Where Do Inconvenient Women Go to Learn More</h3>
<p>I do my best to site every one of my sources. I read hundreds of newsletters, RRS feeds, periodicals, articles and emails from other &#8220;Inconvenient Women each week. One of my favorite Inconvenient Women is <strong><em>Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder of National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)</em></strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>&#8220;If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow.&#8221;</em></strong></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a national, non-profit educational organization founded in 1982. The oldest and largest consumer organization advocating the institution of vaccine safety and informed consent protections in the mass vaccination system, NVIC is responsible for launching the vaccine safety and informed consent movement in America in the early 1980&#8242;s.</em></p>
<p><em>The Mission of The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to defending the informed consent ethic. As an independent clearinghouse for information on diseases and vaccines, NVIC does not promote the use of vaccines and does not advise against the use of vaccines. We support the availability of all preventive health care options, including vaccination, and the right of consumers to make educated, voluntary health care choices.</em></p>
<p><em>NVIC provides assistance to those who have suffered vaccine reactions; promotes research to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness, as well as to identify factors which place individuals at high risk for suffering vaccine reactions; and monitors vaccine research, development, regulation, policy-making and legislation. NVIC works to protect the right of citizens to exercise the human right to informed consent to medical interventions which carry a risk of injury or death for themselves or their children, including vaccination.</em></p>
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