Posted on 09/20/2007 4:02:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
TORONTO, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Canada, in large part due to aggressive behind the scenes lobbying, rolls out the not-comprehensively-tested Merck HPV vaccine for girls as young as nine, a look at developments on the vaccine south of the border should cause Canadians serious concern. In the United States a similar lobby campaign by the same company launched the mass HPV vaccination of girls beginning in June last year.
In just little over a year, the HPV vaccine have been associated with at least five deaths, not to mention thousands of reports of adverse effects, hundreds deemed serious, and many that required hospitalization.
Judicial Watch, a US government watchdog, became concerned while noting large donations to key politicians originating from Merck. A freedom of information request from the group in May of this year discovered that during the period from June 8, 2006 - when the vaccines received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - to May 2007 there were 1,637 reports of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine reported to the FDA.
Three deaths were related to the vaccine, including one of a 12-year-old. One physician's assistant reported that 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.
As of May 11, 2007, the 1,637 adverse vaccination reactions reported to the FDA via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) included 371 serious reactions. Of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormities.
Side effects published by Merck & Co. warn the public about potential pain, fever, nausea, dizziness and itching after receiving the vaccine. Indeed, 77% of the adverse reactions reported are typical side effects to vaccinations. But other more serious side effects reported include paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures.
Judicial Watch informed LifeSiteNews.com that a subsequent request for information on adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine, covering the period from May 2007 to September 2007, found that an additional 1800 adverse reactions have been reported, including more deaths. exactly how many more deaths will be released in the coming days, Judicial Watch's Dee Grothe informed LifeSiteNews.com.
The LifeSiteNews.com report on the moneyed lobbying efforts of Merck in the US was reported in February. (see http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/feb/07020204.html )
However the Canadian lobby effort by Merck's Canadian affiliate Merck Frosst Canada has been underway using powerful lobbyists with close connections to the politicians who have signed off on massive government funded vaccination programs.
The Toronto Star recently reported that Merck Frosst Canada Ltd hired public relations giant Hill & Knowlton to push the immunization strategies using some well-connected lobbyists: Ken Boessenkool, a former senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Bob Lopinski, formerly with Premier Dalton McGuinty's office; and Jason Grier, former chief of staff to Health Minister George Smitherman.
Harper's Conservative Government approved Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil in July and later announced a $300 million program to give the vaccine to girls from ages 9-13. That of course is only the beginning of what Merck likely hopes will be a much larger vaccination of all potentially sexually active women in Canada. In August, McGuinty's Ontario Liberals, on the advice of his Health Minister George Smitherman, announced that all Grade 8 girls will have free access to Gardasil.
One of the major complaints by physicians is that the HPV vaccination program has been implemented before adequate testing has been completed. Long-term effects of the vaccine remain unknown. Many are asking why the huge, seemingly reckless rush?
At least one answer to that question comes from the fact that Merck currently is the sole provider of an HPV vaccine with its Gardasil product. A competing HPV vaccine, Glaxo Smith Kline's Cervarix, is set to hit the market in January 2008. As more children are vaccinated with Gardasil, fewer will be able to later receive the necessary repeat boosters of a competing, incompatible vaccine. Merck is in a race to capture as much of the market as it can, consuming many millions of government tax dollars.
US sales of Gardasil are expected to reach $1 billion in the first year of its availability.
The reports from the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System detailing the three previous deaths are available here:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007_docs/GardasilVAERSDeath...
The reports detailing all 1637 adverse effects are here:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007_docs/GardasilVAERSRepor...
There was a time when experimenting on children was considered taboo.
In just little over a year, the HPV vaccine have been associated with at least five deaths, not to mention thousands of reports of adverse effects, hundreds deemed serious, and many that required hospitalization.
not to mention unknown effects on future fertility.
At my daughters 10 year old check up, our pediatrician said to wait a few more years before we even start to talk about it.
I talked to my ob-gyn, and she was more aggressively selling it.
I liked our pediatricians approach.
Those reports are very sketchy and don’t shed any light on the medical facts. Instead, they raise more questions than they answer.
For instance, why is a Physician Assistant making a report about blood clots 3 hours after a shot? A rapid allergic reaction such as the one reported so soon after a shot should tell us more that the patient had a blood clot. Was there shortness of breath, hives and the other signs of an anaphylactic reaction?
Furthermore, 3 deaths that occurred over a range of time, from three hours to months, appears to be due more to the fact that these conditions happen to a certain number of people, whether or not they receive a shot.
I mentioned that earlier, there is no telling what the long term consequences are. This is not like the polio vaccine in the mid-1950s, there was no urgency to rush this to market.
About the only good thing our left Governor has done since taking office was changing the opt-out language in the bill our Repbulican legislature passed mandating this for all girls entering 6th grade.
I do not have to give any reasons, just say I have been informed but choose not have it given to my daughter.
We only get bits and pieces of these cases because of the secrecy involved in those settlements...I recall a few years back a man was put on Prozac...within a few weeks 3-6wks. he killed his whole family. Just not isolated cases at all.
My life tends to operate like that.
Maybe I'm unlucky on some of the little things, because I tend to be lucky on most of the big important things.
Which reminds me, I must remember to thank my mother again, the next time I talk with her. :-)
Yes there was, Merck's bottom line..........plain and simple. Once the others come on the market starting next year the charge for the vaccines will plummet.
Every politician who voted for it should be forced to get it.
I can think of a few more appropriate things, but this is a family web site :)
California dropped making the vaccine mandatory after all the bruhaha in Texas.
Now, I just have to wait and see what I actually will do with my daughters.
One of my 10 year old daughters has brain damage, and so I am very concerned about the neurological side effects.
However, my husband’s cousin and another good friend of mine had cervical cancer. So, I would like to prevent that in my daughters if I could.
I figure when my girls start high school is really the time to worry about it. That gives me 4 more years to see what is going on with the vaccine.
I do plan on discussing this vaccine with both of my girls and probably recommending that they get it. Of course, they are nearly 18 and 21, which I think is a more appropriate time than TWELVE!!!!
LOL, that was just my mean streak coming out. I could think of a few things too lol.
Wow! Three deaths! The sky is falling! Run for your life!
the entire family of SSRI drugs - think Prozac.
If the government mandates that you shower with Zyklon-B, do you have a right to know what it is?
My body is mine, not yours, not the governments. Do not mess with it, I am a slave to no one.
That goes double for my kids.
Did you read the article?
My mom was too. I thank God she refused.
Hmm...can you provide a link to the incident to which your earlier post referred?
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