Posted on 07/08/2013 12:30:47 PM PDT by workerbee
The health ministry has issued a nationwide notice that cervical cancer vaccinations should no longer be recommended for girls aged 12 to 16 because several adverse reactions to the medicines have been reported.
“It is necessary to gather information immediately to accurately grasp how often (the side effects) are occurring,” said Mariko Momoi, who chairs the panel at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry that decided to suspend the recommendation. Momoi is vice president of the International University of Health and Welfare.
Cervical cancer vaccines are a recent addition to the regular vaccination list and were added after a revision to the Preventive Vaccination Law took effect in April. In Japan, cervical cancer is second only to breast cancer among those aged 20 to 39 and is estimated to strike nearly 9,000 women each year.
Despite the notice, issued Friday, most local governments will likely keep the vaccinations in question on their lists of free vaccines. But a ministry official said the vaccination rate is certain to drop sharply.
The two vaccines sold in Japan are Cervarix, made by GlaxoSmithKlein PLC of Britain, and Gardasil, made by Merck Sharp & Dohme, known as Merck & Co. in the United States.
Mika Matsufuji, 46, who represents an association of cervical cancer vaccination victims’ parents, said the health panel’s decision was a “big step forward.” Her daughter, who was vaccinated with Cervarix in 2011, lost the ability to walk and is now in a wheelchair, she said.
The group is calling for the vaccinations to be halted.
The panel said there was a strong possibility that severe prolonged pain was caused by some of the vaccinations. It concluded that active recommendation of cervical cancer vaccinations should thus be halted until a more complete picture of their side effects can be attained.
The ministry said this is the second time it has suspended a recommendation related to the regular vaccine program since problems cropped up with the Japanese encephalitis vaccine in 2005.
In 2011, however, Pfizer Inc.’s Prevnar and Sanofi SA’s ActHIB vaccines were suspended for about a month following the deaths of four children.
The panel focused on 38 cervical vaccine recipients who reported widespread pain. Given the timing of their symptoms, the panel concluded that a causal link to the vaccines could not be ruled out in many of the cases.
There were 245.1 reports of side effects per million vaccinations for Cervarix, and 155.7 reports per million for Gardasil — more than two other, separate vaccines that affect both sexes and were added to the regular list at around the same time.
Reports of side effects from the other two medicines came to 89.1 per million for a set of pneumococcus vaccines and 67.4 per million for Japanese encephalitis vaccines.
This must not stand. Nothing, nothing should stand in the way of free sex and big pharma profits.
A friend who is an MD does not refer teen girls to a gynecologist
He says that they have no risk factors as they are not married and are not sexually active
Gardasil. Bah!
No he does mot have an enormous practice as people refuse to go along with the normal and the healthy. But he has a basic practice a good lifestyle and a lovely family.
From what I understand a lot of the issues with vaccines are not the dead/weakened virus, it is the stuff they “cut” it with to turn 100 doses into 10,000 doses.
These Adjuvants are “immune system accelerants” which can trigger the immune system to become more active and surprise, surprise, you see an increase in auto-immune disorders, because the yperactivated immune system attacks it’s own body.
In totally unrelated news....Rick Perry announces he will not seek another term as Texas Governor.
He was on the wrong side of that one. Big
I’ve been trying to do more research into this lately — my 11 yr old daughter had a physical today and we declined the Gardasil. It’s tough (IMO) to find balanced articles about it. I don’t want to jump to conclusions that it’s all bad, but the antecdotal evidence is pretty damning and hard to ignore. I’m not anti-vaccine but at this point I don’t see that the benefit outweighs the risk on this one.
I’ve been trying to do more research into this lately — my 11 yr old daughter had a physical today and we declined the Gardasil. It’s tough (IMO) to find balanced articles about it. I don’t want to jump to conclusions that it’s all bad, but the antecdotal evidence is pretty damning and hard to ignore. I’m not anti-vaccine but at this point I don’t see that the benefit outweighs the risk on this one.
Always ask to read to insert that comes with the vaccine, In most cases you can justify saying no by highlighting a good protion of text in that insert when you return tot he doctor’s office.
Look at the risk for hpv which this vaccine purports to prevent
Is your 11year old at risk for it?
It is a sexually transmitted disease
Run a search on “FOIA Gardasil”. You’ll see there are over 3000 reported adverse reactions, hundreds of permanent disabilities and dozens of deaths.
Killed how many girls in Texas (I think it was there).
And can be transmitted by hands.. And kissing and so on:
The American Social Health Association reported estimates that about 75-80% of sexually active Americans will be infected with HPV at some point in their lifetime.[143][144] By the age of 50 more than 80% of American women will have contracted at least one strain of genital HPV.[142][145][146]
80% is a pretty high number to just say it’s ‘only an STD, don’t worry about it’.
There are hundreds of strains of HPV and the majority are not dangerous. Gardasil is supposed to be effective against four that cause most of the problems, but it’s only effective for up to 5 years. That’s another reason I question the push at 10 & 11 yr olds.
True enough. It’s a shame it doesn’t last for life or much longer than 5 years.
We have an 18 year old, and we declined vaccination but the nurse read the order wrong and gave it to her on accident, we declined the follow up. Her period has been irregular since and this has been 3 years.
In hopes of running for POTUS in '16. He's ticked enough Texans off that he'd risk losing the governorship.
I know that back when parents pushed back on Gardasil in Texas schools that he still sent doses to schools and the nurse sent home notes for parents to sign if they wanted their daughters to get the shots for ***FREE!!!*** Many got it simply because it was FREEEEEE!!! rather than doing any research on it.
What about long term effects of these vaccinations, on childbearing, menopause, reactions when taken with other medications or vaccines? I can’t imagine how anyone could have a definitive answer to that.
“And can be transmitted by hands.. And kissing and so on”
You are very mistaken.
The following is from the CDC.
When one devises their own definitions for diseases and their origin, the truth has a nasty way of rearing its ugly head.
Anyone defining STD as transmissible through anything other than what the S stands for in that acronym is playing with fire, passing on misinformation. And it is NOT kissing.
on:http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm
Statute of limitations might be coming up on suing her.
I say get on it.
You asked the question, should we assume you have the actual answer? Or was it just a rhetorical question trying to make a point from no evidence?
Lived here the whole time, can not remember one reported death. Don’t think you’ll be able to show one either.
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