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To: markedmannerf
I'm sorry, but this poor family is simply wrong. The cause of ALS, in all its forms, was discovered just last month. It turns out to be metabolic, a failure of protein recycling. It has nothing to do with the immune system or anything else a vaccine could affect. Their "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy is dangerous because it discourages people from getting a good vaccine and leaves them vulnerable for the real risk, the carcinogenic strains of the HPV virus and their less common life threatening sequelae cervical cancer. 12,710 cases and 4290 deaths from cervical cancer are what the American Cancer Society estimates will occur in 2011. It also infects men and does cause some cancer and deaths amongst them. Even in the worst delusions of the anti-vaccine zealots annual deaths from complications of the vaccine will be far less than that.

Now that researchers have found the real cause of ALS we can ignore all the wrong guesses put forth by desperate families over the years and concentrate on fixing the real problem. My only fear is that liberals will metaphorically extend this real cellular recycling problem into calls for more typical 'green' nonsense.

51 posted on 09/13/2011 6:31:44 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
The Gardasil vaccine is pure protein developed by expressing HPV genes in yeast and injecting those proteins into young girls. Your link cites the basis of ALS as "a malfunctioning protein recycling system in the neurons of the brain and spinal cords."

It would not seem possible to rule out Gardasil as a suspect in sudden onset ALS like symptoms at all unless you know that the Gardasi protein wii not interact with other proteins in any human body. will not

82 posted on 09/13/2011 7:10:30 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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