There have been 35 million people given Gardasil.
VAERS is the official report of "adverse reactions". This isn't medically verified "caused by vaccine" reactions -- this is EVERY adverse reaction reported that happened to anybody who received the Vaccine before they had the medical condition. It defines the WORST CASE of reactions.
There are a total of 18,727 reports. Of those, 8% are serious, or about 1498 total. Only 66 people have died after taking the vaccine. No deaths have been medically attributed to the vaccination.
I have no idea where they get their statistics. Mine come directly from the CDC
But what these people fail to tell you is that VAERS isn't a report of adverse reactions medically tied to the vaccine. It's simply a report of things that happened AFTER people received the vaccine.
People get sick and die all the time. Medical studies done on the VAERS information finds that people are not getting sick or dying at any higher rate after receiving the vaccine, than those who do NOT receive the vaccine.
It's good to have a healthy interest in the truth, but not to deliberately mislead people into thinking VAERS is a medically sound list of reactions to a vaccine.
I also think it is absurd that we are arguing over the medical merits of a specific vaccine, and listening to anecdotal evidence about it, as part of our presidential campaign.
JOBS. DEBT. ECONOMY.
The liberals must love us right now. We are excuting a scorched-earth policy on our republican field over a medical vaccine that most of the free world finds perfectly sound.
Some other guy named Charles once said that "people die every day." It still doesn't help me understand.
The issue is freedom. Yes, Perry had an opt out. But it's backwards. To opt out, you have to know you can opt out. There is no mandatory education supplied with the mandatory shot to say that you could die or be permanently disabled, and that you have the right to refuse government medical treatment. This should be the Nuremberg version of Miranda rights.
Y'all want to believe the government spin on the shots, fine. I won't prevent you from getting them. I'll even go along with the gov funding shots deemed critical for national health even though I don't believe a word of it regarding earlier epidemics like polio.
I must have the right to hear the physicians who point out the fraud of government medicine, and to exercise the right to refuse treatment for me and my children. I must have the right to exercise my conscience when some Dracula types murder an unborn baby and grow viruses in its flesh. That's how the polio vaccine began; they got the Nobel prize for growing the virus in murdered baby flesh. Will I, under PerryCare, have the right to refuse to inject murdered baby pus into me and my children?
Bachmann did a good thing pointing this out. ObamaCare is leading us down to the road to forced care and death panels. While I'll vote for Perry if he is the nominee, I'd like the issue of forced or coerced medical treatment aired out before the election.