with Merck’s dangerous, but profitable,

HPV vaccine, Gardasil

The Adverse reaction reports keep rolling in, yet the FDA and the CDC still stand by this expensive and dangous vaccine.

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“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 “one less,” and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as on television.”

Barbara Loe Fisher, President and co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC):

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.

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.

Another GARDASIL VICTIM’S Story

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.

Her father, Philip Tetlock, a professor at UC-Berkeley, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine, Gardasil, is to blame.

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.

Sources:

A Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA’s HPV Vaccine Records June 30, 2008

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In the early 1990s, faced with protests by AIDS activists about the glacier-like approval of potential life saving drugs, the Clinton administration changed the FDA drug approval process. They allowed pharmaceutical companies to “fast track life-saving” drugs by absorbing the extra costs involved. The unintended consequence of this humanitarian intention became “Safety for Sale”. The number of product recalls in the past 15-years is enough to turn the most trusting advocate of governmental infallibility into a stone, cold, cynic.

Successive administrations have unsuccessfully struggled with more than one “Drug-War”. If the American public were truly aware of the actual body count that has resulted from BIG PHARMA’s policy of ‘profit over accountability’, they would be marching in the streets. Maybe the people who demanded the networks show the flag draped coffins of fallen soldiers, so the public would become more aware of the very human cost of war, had the right idea.

The young people who have lost their lives to unsafe, questionably tested, and hastily approved drugs, died without the notice of the national media…one heart-wrenching loss at a time. The bereaved families stand alone at the gravesite; go back to an empty house, and sit in the silence of dreams forever unlived.  Since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, America has lost more young men and women to fatal adverse medical events than to enemy hostilities.

Maybe the Gardasil® mothers, and the parents of the teens on antidepressants who committed suicide or the parents of kids who were killed by other kids in the grip of drug-induced paranoia, could stand together with the pictures of the children they have lost. It is time to make the country aware of how the ‘profit before safety’ paradigm of BIG PHARMA and its unholy alliance with our erstwhile, ineffective, protector, the FDA, is costing lives and ripping the fabric of the families left behind to grieve and wonder why and what could have been.

Independent journalist, Cynthia Janak, has made a start. She has developed a web site memorial to those young women and girls who have lost their lives to Gardasil®. The site also features stories of the young women who survived, forever changed, by an adverse reaction to the Gardasil® vaccine. Cynthia is taking action. She is giving a voice to the women, who have been beneath the notice of the national media. Cynthia has chosen to stand up, speak out and be a witness.

In the bastions of big money and BIG PHARMA, I’m sure Cynthia is considered a very INCONVENIENT WOMAN indeed.
Please visit http://www.cynthiajanak.com/Gardasil.html and Remember The Names and The Faces of the girls who died for greed and Gardasil®.

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It was a hot issue here in Texas a couple of years ago.  Now Gardasil, the vaccine against the virus that causes cervical caner, is back in the spotlight.

Gabi Swank, a 16-year-old from Wichita, Kansas, says she and other girls are dying from the side-effects of the drug.  Once a cheerleader with a 4.0 grade point average, she is now homebound, suffering from seizures, migraines and even two small strokes.

Swank’s doctors diagnosed her with cerebral vasculatis, a terminal disease.  And he blames Gardasil complications.

Now, Swank and her mother are on a mission.

“She looked at me with the most somber face and she said, ‘If I have to die to save other girls, then I am prepared to do that’,” said Gabi’s mother, Shannon Schrag.

“I want this drug off the market,” said Gabi.

Governor Rick Perry made headlines two years ago when he made Texas the first state to require the vaccine against human pappilomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease.  Conservatives and parents rights groups felt the requirement condoned pre-marital sex.

The makers of Gardasil say the drug is safe.  They’re hoping to vaccinate boys as well.

ABC Affiliate KAKE 10, also carried the story “Lawmaker Wants Answers On Gardasil” and added:

…Twenty-eight women have died, reportedly from the Gardasil vaccination. The FDA says it continues to follow the drug, but it maintains the benefits outweigh the risks.

In 2007, Wichita Representative Delia Garcia introduced a bill that would require all young women to get the HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer. Now she wants the FDA to look further into the side effects to make sure it’s safe.

To watch the video that accompanied the story click the following link: http://www.kake.com/health/headlines/39581687.html

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…Probably big words like PROFIT, LOBBYING, POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY, CALLOUS DISREGARD…

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WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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.

The CDC and FDA are alleging that the vast majority – if not all – 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’s participating in the federal Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project and other closed government operated databases.

“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 – 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. 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.”

* 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;

* In 2007, Merck lobbied in many states for Gardasil vaccine mandates but failed in most;

* 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;

* 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.

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.

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