Posted on 03/15/2007 5:24:51 AM PDT by A. Pole
A researcher who worked on a vaccine for the human papillomavirus is warning that it hasn't been tested on young girls, is "silly" for states to mandate the vaccination, and in a worst-case scenario could even increase cervical cancer rates.
In a report published by the Indiana-based Daily News, researcher Diane M. Harper said giving such a vaccine to 11-year-olds "is a great big public health experiment."
Further, she said, requiring vaccinations now "is simply to Merck's benefit."
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The new vaccine, Gardasil, made by Merck and Co., has been an issue recently because of Merck's aggressive lobbying at the state level to have lawmakers require that all schoolgirls at about age 11 or 12 be vaccinated with its product – at a cost estimated at about $360-$400 per child.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry in February issued an executive order requiring those vaccinations, but the state House of Representatives in Texas has approved by a 6-1 margin a plan to rescind that.
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Merck has lobbied for its product by contributing financially to Women in Government, an organization for women state lawmakers, and at least partly because of that effort, almost three dozen state legislatures have been given proposals regarding Gardasil.
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Harper also reported that the drug company "bridged" the studies to apply to young girls. That means that Merck assumed that because it proved effective in the older girls, it also would be effective in the younger girls.
And she warned more than 40 cases of Guillian-Barre syndrome – an immune disorder that results in tingling, numbness and even paralysis of the muscles – have been reported in girls who got the HPV vaccine in combination with a meningitis vaccine.
She said the vaccine's purpose has been misinterpreted and mis-marketed so that too many may believe if they've had the vaccine they are immune to cancer – when they are not.
While calling the vaccine "good" Harper said it is important to realize that if women get the vaccine, but not an routine Pap smear, "what will happen in the U.S. is that we will have an increase in cervical cancer, because the Pap screening does a very good job."
Harper told the publication she's attempted to publicize her opinion for months, "but no one will print it."
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You and I are on the same page here. I'm all for the vaccine being available, what I oppose is the mandate.
Virginia is the first state to legislatively mandate the vaccine, fortunately the "opt out" is fairly simple and straight forward and I plan to take advantage of it, as my daughter will be in the first group of girls required to have it for entering 6th grade. I don't believe there has been enough study done on the effects it may have on the very young they are trying to force it upon.
When it has been tested/studied/followed a bit longer and my daughter is older we can then look into it.
Let's see.
It protects against only four of the how many types?
You still have to get tested regularly.
So, how will it help anything except the drug company's bank balance?
The other problem with our society in general is that somehow the idea has been planted in our collective minds that nothing bad should ever happen to any of us. Last time I checked, the mortality rate was still at 100%. Some of the people who need the"wonder drugs" have most likely traveled pretty far down Dirt Nap Drive and have underlying weaknesses that the drugs either can't offset or perhaps make worse. There are risks involved in any action and we should be free for the most part to assume responsibility for educating ourselves about those risks and deciding if the benefits outweigh the potential for bad things to happen. Unfortunately, Big Momma government thinks otherwise.
Nothing like an evo showing his colors. Nice guys all and always counted on to take the liberal side on an issue.
It's really public/private partnerships at work. Read this to learn about one of Merck's public advocates.
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On that note, have you read about Beverly Hammerstrom, Republican Senator for the 17th District in the state of Michigan? Wow! She’s quite a “representative.” She’s involved in sterilization, mental health, depopulation, and was the “immediate past Chairman of the Board of Directors” of Women in Government - a Washington DC think tank with “Foundation Partnerships” to Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation and several other upstanding outfits ( www.womeningovernment.org ).
Senator Hammerstrom recently came up with a legislative brainstorm to force all 12-year-old girls, or girls entering the 6th Grade, to receive a mandatory new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer – a “mandatory” vaccine.
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Let’s look at some Senator Hammerstrom facts:
She was the lead sponsor of SB 1416 and SB 1417, which state that Michigan girls entering the sixth grade (next year (2007/08)) would be required to be vaccinated against cervical cancer. This new and approved vaccine is recommended by the Federal Advisory Commission on Immunization Practices for girls aged 11 and 12 – before they become sexually active – at age 11 or 12.
The vaccination costs $360. Hammerstrom believes that most Michigan employers will cover the vaccine, and believes that uninsured girls could be covered through the federal government's Vaccines for Children program.
Big pharma giant, Merck, has produced the vaccine called Gardasil. Other copycat vaccines are in production by other pharmaceutical houses. Lucky for Merck that Hammerstrom is well connected to the pharmaceutical giant. She already has decided that 72,000 Michigan girls would need the mandatory vaccine in the first year her new law goes into effect.
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What’s fun is to type in the words “Beverly Hammerstrom” into your search engines. Then add words like “depopulation,” “sterilization,” and “mental health.” Let me tell you, it would appear that this ”compassionate” woman travels the global/United Nations’ trail of partnership associations to a tee. The Michigan Mental Health Commission, abortion, depopulation, and foundation partnerships with pharmaceutical giants appear to be right up her alley – and she is visiting your state reps to push her “agendas.”
What you are witnessing is public–private partnershipping, also known as Fascism. Corporations fund cover organizations, which are headed up by politicians, and then those politicians forward the profit initiatives of those corporations. The corporations then re-fund the political campaigns of obedient and loyal corporate political puppets that, in turn, continue to endorse the products of their corporate backers through legislation. This IS public-private partnering, and Fascism, by definition, is the partnering of corporations to government.
Now, here is another interesting fact about Beverly Hammerstrom. She is not a medically trained expert of anything.
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Her Women In Government sponsors are, amongst others, pharmaceutical corporations. So what does Ms. Hammerstrom do for a living? She introduces legislation to force children to take pharmaceutical drugs. You see the public-private system? As an English teacher and a public administrator, where do you think her “interest” in depopulation, sterilization, mental health, and cervical cancer came into play? One might guess that her financial “sponsors” had a great deal to do with her medical interest.
Sadly, this public-private partnering of politician to corporation is the status quo in Washington DC and in all state capitols. Loyalty to the Constitution and people of this nation is non-existent beneath our current form of perk system governance. What you are witnessing are global corporations dictating their missions, intentions, and wares to politicians in exchange for their elections, re-elections, and professional resumes.
As Beverly Hammerstrom is serving her last term as senator for the state of Michigan, one cannot help but to wonder about her next “professional” assignment. And one cannot help but to wonder how a women, who claims to represent the needs of American women, and who has no educational background in the health care needs of women, would introduce legislation to hand over children of her own gender to her corporate sponsors. One might wonder what’s in it for her?
Should parents be interested in doing a little research on Ms. Hammerstrom, you will find that she seems to be interested the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, whose primary mission is the nationwide screening/searching for Big Pharma drug victims – and particularly victims who are women and children – and she also seems to be highly interested in depopulation and sterilization – also targeting the female gender.
And sadly, if you do some research on your state’s “representatives,” you will find that most, if not all, are tied to the same system of public-private prostitution, and this system is collapsing your freedom, your health, and your ability to function as intelligent human beings every single day of the week. In Hammerstrom’s case, this specifically includes and targets your children.
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http://www.sierratimes.com/06/10/17/Levant.htm
And what makes you automatically believe WND over the CDC?
Who runs the CDC?
http://www.cdc.gov/
Many scientists work there.
How many scientists work for WND?
Knock yourself out and get your daughters the vaccinations.........just don't support the government attempting to force me to have MY daughter vaccinated with a drug the effects of which are UNKNOWN for 11 and 12 year olds.
Pleased to meetcha. Jeez.
I have no kids, not even a dog. Actually not even a plant.
(I do have my Corvette though) :-)
Nice to meet you as well. Dragging an argument from one thread to another (especially WND) hit my "buttons".
My apologies.
Just because you don't like the source, that means they're wrong?
Why are you so eager to promote big government and sacrifice our freedom to governmental control just because you think something's a good idea? If you like it so much, YOU get it and "protect" yourself and family. Just don't make me do it.
I'll watch and see what the consequences are for guinea pigs like yourself and then decide when it's proven to work and be safe.
You're so right! We should ALWAYS trust scientists when they develop a new "wonder drug" after all look at the successes they had with thalidomide and fen-phen!/sarcasm off
If you have no children, then why would you be supportive of government mandates on the children of others?
I have repeatedly stated I am fully in favor of this vaccine being available, I question the mandating of it for children, when no studies have been done on the side effects it may pose when given to those at the bottom end of the age scale.
When you sell your Corvette and get a real child, your views can change.
No family here. Came out of an orphanage. Paid my own way thru school on the GI bill (Vietnam era) and became a scientist. Now in my 50s.
Probably. However, I am wayyyy to old now for that.
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