Family fears vaccine led to girl's illness

The Wichita Eagle ^ | Sun, Sep. 13, 2009 | SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS

[netmilsmom]

Oh I apologize, I misunderstood. Sorry!

[DJ MacWoW]

It’s an emotional subject when they try to palm something unsafe on our children. It’s a worry that they are now trying to give it to our boys too.

[ElayneJ]

“HPV is a virus that men can also catch and spread. Genital warts are caused by one of the HPV’s.”

OK. That makes sense. I didn’t connect the HPV-genital warts connection. Ugh.

[DJ MacWoW]

Ugh.

Yeah. Ugh.

I read there is an explosion of warts in our brave new sexual freedom world. *ahem*

[ElayneJ]

Well, who would have guessed that actions have consequences?
(I think that’s mising in the sex ed curriculum.)

[DJ MacWoW]

I think that’s missing in the sex ed curriculum

Yeah, they give instructions on the fun part and never describe the possible aftermath with lifelong consequences.

[ElayneJ]

Exactly! This is how the “feminists” treat young women. When abstinence is the best way to ensure they can grow up to live out their dreams without taking on adult responsibilities too soon or running the risk of disease, the “women’s rights advocates” just keep pushing abortion. It’s a racket and young women are being used. Very sad.

[netmilsmom]

Thanks for understanding. You are correct, moneymaking on kids health is never good.

[Hyzenthlay]

Well, her symptoms started after the first injection, and worsened after the subsequent injections, and people do have bad reactions or develop diseases from vaccines from time to time, so it’s not impossible or really implausible. I mean, when you vaccinate millions of people, someone’s bound to have a problem with it.

But I think someone really dropped the ball here when the girl kept getting injections after the first bad reaction. Shouldn’t her doctor, or parents, or SOMEONE stopped and said “Hey, these injections are making this girl sick, maybe we shouldn’t give them to her?”

[agrace]

These auto imune diseases are extremely hard to diagnose because the symtoms vary so widely and mimic other disease symptoms.

My best friend has POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) and she went through a terrible time - onset of symptoms to diagnosis was like six months. She got sick at work (she was an RN), and didn't leave her own hospital for two weeks. She couldn't walk for a while (severe balance issues), had to use a wheelchair, went to heart specialists, neuro specialists, psychiatrists (the other specialists were so stumped that they tried to tell her it was all in her head -like she could psychosomatically induce dangerously low blood pressure, or poor blood flow to the extremities), was tested and tested and retested and was finally diagnosed with POTS months later by a cardiologist who specializes in auto immune disorders.

But, it’s becoming more and more evident that developing these kind of auto immune diseases is preceded by some kind of trauma, in my case it was surgery on my leg, but it could easily be anything that causes stress to the imune system.

She and her drs think hers was triggered by a bad stomach virus, that she always had the genetic propensity for it, but it didn't kick in until the virus.

[EKrusling]

Consider:
The incidence of Lupus approaches 100 per 100,000 (though it is actually higher in the group being vaccinated, ie: women) and can be expected to manifest sometime between the ages of 10 and 60 years old.

The article states that more than 26 million doses have been distributed in the US, with dosing done in three injections over six months. This comes to about 8.7 million people to be vaccinated in the US alone.

Of these 8.7 million we should expect 8700 to develop Lupus sometime in their life. Given our window of 50 years for Lupus to present and eight months being our window from first dose of vaccine to two months after the last we should expect over 100 women to present with Lupus within two months of their Gardasil course. The girl in the story is one of these.


Lupus is an awful disease and the subject's story is a sad one, but it is anecdotal. The vaccine reporting system is such that you report any illness that occurs around the time of a vaccination. That one person received the shot and then became sick does not prove anything. People become sick all of the time and when as many people receive a vaccination and have had Gardisil a substantial number will become ill within an approximate time of their vaccination. Correlation does not imply causality.

This article is not based in science and is nothing but kookish, anti-vaccine hysteria.