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To: wagglebee
Re: 28 miscarriages is the statistically the same occurrence that appeared in the group given a placebo.

" Go back an read the article again, it does not say this at all.

From the article: "...based on the clinical trials done prior to approval of the drug - which indicated that miscarriages among pregnant women given Gardasil were statistically consistent with miscarriages among women given placebos and in the general population."

19 posted on 12/06/2007 11:18:23 AM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: spunkets
The clinical trials indicated that it was consistent with the general population, but if you read further in the article it says this:

During Merck's clinical trials of 2,226 women, half got the Gardasil vaccine, and the other half got a placebo or empty vaccine. In that group, 40 on Gardasil and 41 on the placebo had an adverse event in their pregnancy.

The most common adverse events were conditions that can result in cesarean section or premature labor. The portions between the Gardasil and placebo were comparable, Merck said.

This has NOTHING to do with miscarriages and all this is saying is that the rate of pregnancy complications is the same.

Moreover, there have been no studies to determine what may happen all of these eleven year old girls are marrying and trying to have children in a decade or so.

23 posted on 12/06/2007 11:27:08 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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