EDIT TO ADD, Randall Hoven of the American Thinker tells us that Bachmann is right and the Professors should now pay up.
See here :
EXCERPT:
I ask the professors to look up a case in the CDC’s VAERS database. Specifically, VAERS number 380440. The case was reported in Oregon on February 15, 2010. The patient was 12 years old. The symptoms in that case were reported in the VAERS database as follows. (My emphases.)
Since receiving 1st dose of Gardasil, I started noticing a decline in my child’s mental health. She has become depressed and has extreme difficulty concentrating. Shortly after receiving her 3rd dose of the vaccine, she started having stomach pains. These have continued to this date. We have had an ultrasound, CT scan, blood and urine work done, still no answers.
The professors might also look up VAERS case number 396852. That case was reported in New York on August 8, 2010. The patient was 20 years old.
Was called by outside institution. Pt is admitted for acute mental status change. Physician caring for Pt states she is very disorganized in her thinking. Pt prior was normal functioning. Pt is still hospitilized in psychiatric hospital x 5 days.
The professors might also look up VAERS case number 339718. That case was reported in Indiana on February 17, 2009. The patient was 13 years old.
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Hoven’s references are from the VAERS (Vaccine Event Reporting System of the HHS ) Database:
http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/data#downloading
Yes there have been stories dating back to 2008 of similiar problems.
You’d have to take a look at a large number of cases to glean much from this. Very common drugs like prednisone and ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics are very common drugs that cause mental status changes.
I’ve treated numerous patients who have become manic and psychotic on the above.
Three cases don’t make convincing evidence. What’s needed is a long-term prospective study to prove much of anything or numerous case reports at the very least.
Didn’t click through to the link, but perhaps you would know if they definitely linked this to the Gardisil, or if there could have been other factors at work?
Bachman should have done this research before her speech. Doing it the way she did, it looked like just another wild claim. Had she quoted from the paper you listed above, she could have at lest put it out there as something that is documented, at least as far as it goes—would still like to see if there were other factors involved.
One thing that irks me to no end is all this hysteria over any and all vaccinations. I lost a dear cousin (he was 9, I was 10) to polio, just before the vaccinations became widely available. Vaccinations do a lot of good, and not having them is going to bring a lot of horrors as some of these diseases have a place to thrive again.
Vaccinations are not evil—but the diseases they prevent are.
Problem is the wording. You can be born with “mental retardation”. You cannot acquire it after birth. It is then called brain damage. That is why they will never pay. She could produce this woman and it could be proven that the drug caused serious brain damage, but since it didn’t cause “mental retardation” they need not pay.
At least, that is the way I am reading this. I could be wrong. I was wrong once many years ago and I did not like it one bit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2780640/posts
Cancer vaccine programme suspended after 4 girls Die(Gardasil)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2780628/posts
Ever hear of “post hoc ergo propter hoc?”
This article doesn’t win the prize.
This article does not show mental retardation.