Could it be because Gardasil is a horrible vaccine?

(emphasis is mine)

FDA’s VAERS data base shows that 1,637 adverse event reaction reports were received since it was approved for marketing, June, 2006. Of these, 371 were serious reactions, including three deaths linked to Merck’s vaccine. A female patient “died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine.” Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.

Holy Toledo! Three deaths, two of them from otherwise healthy teenaged girls who developed heart problems from this miraculous vaccine that is supposed to spare them the horrors of HPV?

Other serious AER reports included paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures. And of 42 women who were vaccinated with Gardasil while pregnant, 18 experienced complications, ranging from miscarriages to fetal abnormalities, according to new FDA data. One of the 18 women was diagnosed with an abnormal fetus, and a test conducted on another woman during her pregnancy showed an increased risk of fetal defect.

Crikey! Of course, they were already advising against the vaccine for pregnant women, weren’t they?

Karen Collier and Jane Metlikovec of Australia’s Herald Sun point out: “The money/profit motive truly shouldn’t be discounted when looking for the rationale behind this stampede to vaccinate the young. Minimally, more research is needed before the green light is given to incorporate yet another series of vaccines, with questions still being raised about all the shots children receive at present! The ties among so many of the universities, organizations, researchers and physicians with the pharmaceutical companies, obviously, ties that should not be viewed as an outright indictment of anyone or any groups’ motives but, nonetheless, do give one pause!”

YES! That’s exactly what I have been saying. We need more research before we issue a blanket statement that all little girls need to be poisoned vaccinated with Gardasil.

In an article published in the Denver Post (March 22, 2007), Sigrid Fry-Revere, the director of bioethics studies at the Cato Institute provides the following sobering assessment: Gardasil is not all it’s cracked up to be–and, besides, there is NO epidemic of cervical cancer from HPV infections.

“A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that among women ages 14 to 24, the rate of all 37 types of sexually transmitted HPV combined is 33.8 percent - much lower than the 50 percent figure cited on Merck’s website. More importantly, the rates for HPV 16 and 18 - the two types responsible for 70 percent of all cervical cancers - are astronomically lower: only 1.5 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively. And even among those cases, last month’s American Cancer Association guidelines report that most HPV infections, even carcinogenic ones, resolve without treatment. Approximately 75 percent of infections in adults and 90 percent of those in adolescents disappear on their own.

It’s worth noting that the American Cancer Society sees its fight against cervical cancer as a success story even without Gardasil. When detected early through Pap testing, the survival rate for the disease is over 90 percent.

In short, even without the vaccine, when early detection methods are used, the number of girls who actually are at risk of dying of cervical cancer from HPV is extremely low. Most of the time, the body takes care of the virus without any help whatsoever. Under these circumstances, are we really prepared to spend untold millions administering this vaccine? In truth, the vaccine may very well cause more harm than good.“

WHY IS THIS NOT BEING REPORTED BY THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA? They all jumped onto the Gardasil bandwagon just a few months ago, urging parents to get their little girls the series of shots. Why are they not now reporting on the “uh oh, maybe we were a bit premature” reports now?

(I’ve ranted about Gardasil before.)

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