More on HPV & Gardasil

I went to a holistic conference couple wks ago, learned that mandates are pushed and lobbied by the pharma industry.  The only way insurance companies will pay for vaccine claims is if the vaccine is mandated.  So Merck spearheaded the path for state mandates....hmmmm.   XOXO     www.princegeorgecitizen.com   Gardasil seems to be beset with problems Written by Marilyn Juds Prince George

Sunday, 02 November 2008

More complications with Merck, the pharmaceutical producers of the HPV vaccine Gardasil. Uncommon knowledge, tucked away on the New York Times webpage of Feb. 21, 2007, is the promise by Merck to quit lobbying U.S. state legislatures. An angry backlash from parents, advocacy groups and public health experts across the U.S. forced Merck to back down due to possibly jeopardizing its sales. Originally most state legislatures wanted mandatory HPV inoculations. But now that has generally been replaced. As Lawrence Gaston of Johns Hopkins University notes:   "A response to the rush to mandate could backfire on us with public dissatisfaction as a deterrent to all vaccinations." Many state legislatures are now advocating a five-year moratorium on mandatory inoculation to further review the drug's efficacy. In any case, most states allow parental opt-out provisions.   Over an over, in medical journals, newspaper articles and health networks, the overruling question is why has Gardasil been rushed to market without proper and extensive testing techniques? (Gardasil is still in the testing stage and will not be fully evaluated for safety until September 2009.)   So it begs the question: how was FDA able to OK its marketing in 2006? In a Globe and Mail article last year entitled: "How Politics Pushed the HPV Vaccine," was included a graph showing the rate of cervical cancer mortality in Canada between the years 1970 and 2005. By 2005 cervical cancer deaths had dropped to .003 per cent of the female population. While unfortunate, hardly a public health crisis. Aluminum is a troubling ingredient in Gardasil. For each 0.5-ml dose, there are 225 mcg of aluminum. As one medical specialist observed: "Aluminum needs a hard look as a vaccine component as mercury does. We are learning it also causes cell death - a lot of cell death - in the brain." Medical practitioners can record patient reactions to vaccinations through VAERS (Vaccination Adverse Events Record System). Unfortunately, recording vaccination events is not mandatory, so VAERS only reflects about 10 per cent of patients' distress. It cannot indicate adverse events in any accurate measure. Nevertheless, it helps to glean some idea of Gardasil's dangers. Judicial Watch.org is a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption. It has been regularly tracking the FDA's HPV vaccine records. By now it has discovered more than 8,000 side-effects, as well as deaths, and has detailed its concerns.