Posted on 12/22/2011 5:35:47 AM PST by markomalley
It was too late for 21-year-old Christina Tarsell and 17-year-old Jessica Ericzon. Both healthy, athletic young women suddenly dropped dead shortly after receiving their final injection of Gardasil, a vaccine developed by Merck to protect girls and young women from cervical cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV).
But when Christina’s and Jessica’s shocked families tried to get the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a vaccine it had inexplicably fast-tracked through the approval process even though only one percent of all cancer deaths are due to cervical cancer, they hit a brick wall.
The Tarsells and Ericzons have been vindicated by new documents just released by the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) under a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Judicial Watch.
In just one year - between Sept. 1, 2010 and Sept. 15, 2011 - 26 new deaths and many more severe adverse reactions – including seizures, paralysis, and blindness – were reported in patients receiving Gardasil injections.
The stories are heartbreakingly similar to the Tarsell and Ericzon tragedies: One healthy 14-year-old girl suffered more than 150 seizures – during which she stopped breathing for up to 40 seconds - following her third Gardasil shot. Another vaccinated 15-year-old suddenly became paralyzed from the waist down the day after receiving her second dose of Gardasil and had to be hospitalized for two months.
The grieving parents of Christina and Jessica told The Washington Examiner that the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) both ignored their repeated requests to investigate possible links between Gardasil and their daughters’ unexplained deaths. It never happened. Since then, dozens more people who were vaccinated with Gardasil have also mysteriously died, and many others experienced serious and debilitating reactions.
That alone should have triggered at least some interest in these two federal public health agencies as to whether there was a cause-effect relationship, but it never happened.
CDC still insists that ìthere was no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccineî - even though VAERS itself reports 18,727 reports of “adverse events” following Gardasil injections, including 68 deaths.
"These reports raise additional concerns about Gardasil’s questionable safety and provide ample reason to end the push to give it young girls and boys. And the CDC’s continued caginess on reported deaths is disturbing," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Many people out there are unaware that they are infected and therefore carriers of the virus who can transmit it to someone else. Some who know or think they have such a disease will dismiss it as trivial "as long as it's non-fatal" i.e. as long as it isn't HIV/AIDS, it's nothing to worry about, be tested for, or disclose to another person.
Or whether you believe multiple researchers in multiple studies in many different parts of the world - along with the scientific method. http://www.hu.ufsc.br/projeto_hpv/A%20summary%20of%20the%20post-licensure%20surveillance%20initiatives%20for%20GARDASILSILGARD.pdf (If not, what are you going to do if you get appendicitis? Or diabetes and need the insulin that’s made the same way as Gardasil?)
Anecdotes are not facts. It’s a tragedy when anyone dies, but there is not always someone or some thing to blame.
I’ve been following the HPV vaccines since the early days of the trials. I’ve published rebuttals over and over here on FR and on my blog http://wingright.org/tag/gardasil/
What about all the blood clots? It’s not a bunch of random symptoms.
As for ‘serious complications’, they are several orders of magnitudes more common than those who have died after having a gardasil shot.
If it were any other treatment, it would have already been shut down and investigated. Instead, we have people defending treatment which is demonstrating problems.
If the health of healthy patients is the primary concern, then gardasil needs to be pulled, investigated and properly tested. Prior to having 12 million people injected with.
We also don’t know the long term complications associated either.
“Many people out there are unaware that they are infected and therefore carriers of the virus who can transmit it to someone else.”
Which is different from all the other 6 diseases I mentioned. Which is the point. It’s not a communicable disease, because it’s very easy to protect yourself from contracting it.
That you can’t infect someone by incidental contact tells us that there is a big functional difference in the virus from other diseases. It also makes it a poor candidate for vaccinations.
Good post. Parents have their heads stuck in the sand...take a look at this thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2824047/posts?page=4
Better it had never begun. Error far outweighs information.
Anyone seeking to make a decision or form an opinion, please disregard the preceeding 150 posts. Taken as a whole they are so bad they cannot be fixed.
That is all.
The CDC mentions them specifically, and claims that those who suffered from blood clots were already in risk groups for blood clots. I presume that means that injecting them with a needle would be a higher risk for generating a clot. I don’t think that would be a Gardasil thing, but just a needle thing.
bfl
You seriously do not understand what you are copying and pasting.
You might read up on “biological plausibility.” http://www.debunkosaurus.com/debunkosaurus/index.php/Biological_plausibility
First, I believe that you mean that HPV as an STD is not communicable by “casual contact.” It is, however, a contagious group of viruses and spread by contact. Therefore, communicable.
Further, it is not spread by “a small number.” Over 20 million in the US are infected, 6.2 million new cases each year.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/monitoring-rpt.htm
There was not a “lack of research.” (For one thing, there’s 20 years information on insulin manufactured the same way.) A “Four year follow up” had been published in 2006 http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3493.full , we now have over 10 years’ follow up.
All pap smears are done to look for changes due to HPV. By corollary, virtually all abnormal pap smears are due to HPV. Imagine a cut in abnormal paps and repeat paps, with the worry and risk from ablation. Australia is already seeing this, after only 3 years of routine vaccination:
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Cervical cancer in the human papillomavirus vaccination era.
Tay SK.
Source
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:
To evaluate the potential changes in the epidemiology of cervical cancer based on recently emerged information from mass vaccination programs beyond clinical trials.
RECENT FINDINGS:
Limited sensitivity and unequal access to screening have resulted in an imbalance in distribution of the burden of cervical cancer between developed and developing countries, between metropolitan and rural areas in developed countries, and among women from different ethnic groups. In screened populations, there is a relative increase in incidence of cervical cancer in young and elderly women, and an increased proportion of adenocarcinoma. A high coverage of the target population has been achieved in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs in many countries. After 3 years of mass vaccination of adolescent girls, surveillance data in Australia confirmed a significant reduction in high-grade abnormalities for girls aged 18 years and below.
26 have not died due to the shot. 26 have died after having the vaccine, but there’s no plausible reason to believe that the vaccine is the cause of the deaths.
Did you hear the recent report from Australia?
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Nov 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Cervical cancer in the human papillomavirus vaccination era.
Tay SK.
Source
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:
To evaluate the potential changes in the epidemiology of cervical cancer based on recently emerged information from mass vaccination programs beyond clinical trials.
RECENT FINDINGS:
Limited sensitivity and unequal access to screening have resulted in an imbalance in distribution of the burden of cervical cancer between developed and developing countries, between metropolitan and rural areas in developed countries, and among women from different ethnic groups. In screened populations, there is a relative increase in incidence of cervical cancer in young and elderly women, and an increased proportion of adenocarcinoma. A high coverage of the target population has been achieved in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs in many countries. After 3 years of mass vaccination of adolescent girls, surveillance data in Australia confirmed a significant reduction in high-grade abnormalities for girls aged 18 years and below.
So the CDC admits then that there is a consistent pattern of complications associated with the gardasil shots. Thank you. That’s all I needed to know.
There is a problem, and it would be nice if the authorities were to actually investigate rather then sweep it under the rug.
“You seriously do not understand what you are copying and pasting.”
Quite the opposite. You don’t have a clue what I’m talking about here.
So, I’ll repeat myself.
There is a distinction between diseases which are required vaccinations and between HPV. HPV is not a communicable disease, like fr’nstance measles, because it is not spread in the same fashion.
End stop.
This distinction is why the two diseases are treated differently in public policy. They require different approaches from a public health standpoint in order to prevent their spread. What is effective for one, is not as effective for the other.
This isn’t rocket science.
“It is, however, a contagious group of viruses and spread by contact. Therefore, communicable.”
That’s not the definition. A communicable disease is one that is spread through casual contact. HPV is not, ergo it is not a communicable disease.
“Further, it is not spread by “a small number.” Over 20 million in the US are infected, 6.2 million new cases each year.”
You haven’t understood what I’m saying at all. I’ll rephrase, and hopefully you will get it.
Inoculation works best for diseases that have little variance across the population as a whole. This isn’t true for HPV, as there are very disproportionate rates of both infection and transmission.
This means that any vaccination effort can be undermined by a small minority of those who are not inoculated, and it can be easily reintroduced into the community.
What this means is that if you do get 80 percent participation, that 20 percent is still going to effectively keep HPV going. This is problematic because it makes vaccination useless. The risk of contracting HPV won’t change significantly even with this high of a participation rate.
“There was not a ‘lack of research.’ “
Again, I did not say there was a lack of research. I said there was a lack of testing. Gardasil has not been properly tested before being used, because it cannot be used on lab rats. Rather then test, it has simply been released into the population, when the side effects were unknown. In essence the drug is being tested now and problems are arising.
“insulin manufactured the same way.”
For sure, but this is not insulin. Different drugs have different interactions, and they need to be properly tested before being injected into people. This due diligence with Gardasil was not done.
“we now have over 10 years’ follow up.”
At the cost and risk to the life and health of 12 million women and girls. This is incredibly scandalous.
“Imagine a cut in abnormal paps and repeat paps”
Imagine your little girl dying of a blood clot that could have been prevented had she not gotten a gardasil shot.
3 years testing is grossly inadequate.
“26 have not died due to the shot. 26 have died after having the vaccine, but there’s no plausible reason to believe that the vaccine is the cause of the deaths.”
Try 38. The count keeps rising.
Gardasil was not properly tested beforehand, you have absolutely no basis to make the claim.
The facts as they stand is that a statistically significant number of young women are suffering from fatal blood clots after getting the gardasil shot.
Until these are properly investigated, we can’t be so flippant as to dismiss them as you have done here.
One little problem with that, is that the vaccine needs to be given to virgins to be effective. Otherwise, the recipient may already be infected. That's why the vaccine is recommended for preteens.
If an adult woman wants to go in and get vaccinated for it and pay for it herself, then by all means. Otherwise, it’s a bad deal.
The whole point of giving the HPV vaccine to young preteens is to give them an immunity before they are ever exposed. Waiting until after exposure has already occurred makes the vaccine useless!
It’s the policy that has been followed wrt vaccinations. If it’s non-communicable, then it is voluntary and reserved for adults.
There you go again, talking about HPV as if it weren't communicable. Since it is impossible to be infected by any strain of HPV other than through contact with another person, I have no idea why you think it is non-communicable. FYI, those strains of HPV that are transmitted sexually are also transmitted by non-sexual contact. They just show a preference for a certain method of transmission.
The decrease in incidence of cervical cancer results from better screening methods, and does not reflect any decrease in the number of HPV cases. According to this very informative website, between 250,000 and 1 million cases of cervical dysplasia are diagnosed in the US per year. Dysplasia is a pre-cancerous condition caused by HPV which, left untreated, has a high chance of developing into full-blown cancer.
We aren't just talking about preventing cancer deaths, we're talking about preventing dysplasias which can have serious health consequences. Treatment for dysplasia can be very effective for preventing cancer; unfortunately, it can also be quite effective for preventing future childbirth. Cervical dysplasia may be treated by LEEP, in which part of the cervix is removed. Sometimes, one LEEP procedure doesn't eliminate the virus, and the LEEP must be repeated. Each LEEP procedure damages the cervix, increasing the patient's risk of miscarriage should she get pregnant. Sometimes, the virus penetrates so deeply into the tissue that the only effective treatment is a hysterectomy, leaving the woman sterile. A gynecologist I worked with told me of having to do a hysterectomy on a 19 year old girl who had become infected at age 16, and remained infected after several LEEP treatments.
If just 50% of HPV infections can be prevented with the vaccine, that represents a HUGE savings in terms of treatment costs and overall health benefits.
Correlation is not causation.
If there is a 1% chance of a particular medical event occurring each week, and 1000 patients receive a vaccine this week, 10 of them will go on to experience that medical event during this same week. This does not mean that the event was caused by the vaccine. In this example, ten patients experienced the event last week, before they received the vaccine. This does not mean that the event was precipitated through anticipation of receiving the vaccine.
Actually, the ADDRESS the alleged pattern, and dismiss it. That’s not the same as “admitting a consistant pattern”, but if you want to believe that anyway, go right ahead.
Oh, goodness. Then what do you suppose explains the billions of dollars that go into drug development, if not the safety and efficacy studies?
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