Reneging on Gardasil mandate in the Lone-Star State is an admission of guilt
and should not be forgiven or forgotten.
By Leslie Carol Botha
PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 22, 2011 – According to VAERS analyst and SANE Vax team member Janny Stokvis, Governor Rick Perry should have been aware and taken action on the mounting injuries from Gardasil in Texas before an attempt to mandate the vaccine. VAERS reports one girl died post-Gardasil vaccination, there were 14 life-threatening situations and 31 girls became disabled after Perry’s attempt to issue an executive order. The effort to introduce the drug into Texas schools turned into one of Perry’s greatest defeats. His admission of a ‘mistake’ five years later is reprehensible.
Perry’s order would have become effective in 2008 and girls would be involuntarily immunized unless they ‘opted out’ upon entry to the 6th grade. Texas was the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against a multi-strain virus to prevent ‘cervical cancer.’ Unfortunately, the National Cancer Institute has not directly linked the virus to cervical cancer.1
Is this poor judgment from a man running for president?
During a 16 month investigation of Gardasil, side effects were documented in a disturbing number of cases to VAERS including 3,589 during a 16 month period.2Even though thousands of girls reported adverse reactions to the vaccine, Perry found no reason to modify or withdraw his executive order. Those numbers have now risen to over 22,000 and yet, it took political posturing for Perry to admit his ‘mistake.’
In addition the executive order mandated that the Department of State Health Services make the HPV vaccine available through the Texas Vaccines for Children program for eligible young females up to age 18, and the Health and Human Services Commission shall make the vaccine available to Medicaid-eligible young females from age 19 to 21. 3
Medicaid? That means that the private sector that refuses to buy into the HPV vaccine scheme would now pay for Merck’s Gardasil hoax.
Is this a man in bed with Big Pharma?
According to VAERS, Texas has had its fair share of reports of adverse reactions:
As of July 12, 2011 the total number HPV vaccine adverse events reported to VAERS is 22,619 – with an estimated 1 to 10% of the HPV vaccine injured population reporting.4
19,170 reports are from the U.S. – 3,127 of those events are from unknown locations.
914 reports out of the 19,170 reports are from Texas. But considering the fact that 3,127 reports have an unknown location, this number could be higher.5
Gardasil Adverse Events in Texas:
• One death report of a 26 year old woman who died Nov 20076
• 67 reports are listed as serious7
• 14 reports of Life threatening situations8
• 433 reports of emergency room visits9
• 45 reports of hospitalization10
• 10 reports extended hospital stay11
• 174 reports where the girls did not recover from their injuries12
• 31 reports of girls now disabled13
Is this a man who ignores his constituency in favor of Big Pharma?
Even after the issuance of the executive order, and the challenge by the Texas Legislature, Perry defended his position. At a press conference, he played a video message from a 31-year old cervical cancer patient hooked to an oxygen tube, who was too sick to testify earlier at the statehouse. Perry declared:
‘I challenge legislators to look these women in the eyes and tell them, `We could have prevented this disease for your daughters and granddaughters, but we just didn’t have the gumption to address all the misguided and misleading political rhetoric…’14
Is this a man who has been corrupted by Big Pharma?
In fact – Rick Perry’s previous Chief of Staff worked as a lobbyist for Merck at the time and Perry and eight other Republican law makers received donations of $6000.00 from Merck lobbyists just a few days before the executive order was issued.
Now that Perry has declared his candidacy for President he told reporters in New Hampshire that he regretted his handling of the vaccine, explaining: “I signed an executive order that allowed for an opt out, but the fact of the matter is that I didn’t do my research well enough to understand that we needed to have a substantial conversation with our citizenry.” Too little – too late, Governor Perry.
SANE Vax Inc. believes that every governor should be looking at the number of Gardasil adverse reactions in their respective states. It is time that other politicians admit their ‘mistakes’ to their constituents as well.
Source:
1. National Cancer Institute – Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/cervic …
2. Judicial Watch http://www.judicialwatch.org/story/2008/may/judicial-wat …
3. Politics News http://politicsnews.tumblr.com/post/8893735384/rick-perr …
4. MedAlerts http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4
5. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=STA&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4
6. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&DIED=Yes&STATE[]=TX
7. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&SERIOUS=ON&STATE[]=TX
8. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&L_THREAT=Yes&STATE[]=TX
9. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&ER_VISIT=Yes&STATE[]=TX
10. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&HOSPITAL=Yes&STATE[]=TX
11. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&X_STAY=Yes&STATE[]=TX
12. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&RECOVD=No&STATE[]=TX
13. MedAlerts
http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=AGE&GROUP2=SEX&EVENTS=ON&VAX[]=HPV&VAX[]=HPV2&VAX[]=HPV4&DISABLE=Yes&STATE[]=TX
14. Malia Litman Blog http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/perrys-executive-order-on-gardasil-proves-he-is-a-corrupt-bastard/
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
SANE Vax Inc. Celebrates 1st Anniversary with New Web Site Launch
Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective vaccines message captures global attention
PRLog (Press Release) - Aug 15, 2011 - SANE Vax Inc. was incorporated in August of 2010, to raise awareness of the science and research behind growing concerns regarding vaccine safety and efficacy. One year later – the SANE Vax message and the research we have compiled has gone global and shared with educators, medical and legal professionals, researchers, journalists and medical consumers world-wide.
To date visitors from 110 countries have visited the web site. Map below can be found on the new SANE Vax site http://sanevax.org under ‘Who’s Online.’ Perhaps pharmaceutical companies, governments and pro-vaccine ‘cults’ will finally begin to understand that vaccine safety and efficacy is a global issue.
SANE Vax Inc. founders, Norma Erickson, President, Rosemary D. Mathis, Vice President of Victim Services, Leslie Carol Botha, Vice-President of Public Relations, Janny Stokvis, Vice President of Research, Freda Birrell, Secretary, and Linda Thompson, Treasurer, would like to express our sincere gratitude to the multitudes of vaccine safety advocates and medical professionals who have provided research and assistance in furthering our endeavors. SANE Vax now has developed a strong network of dedicated professionals, medical consumers and media contacts who understand that the vaccine industry may pose more health risks than the benefits they have promoted for the past 40 years.
The SaneVax Team would also like to thank our colleague, and natural cycle researcher, David Katzmire – http://kalarhythms.org/ for his expertise and countless hours of volunteer work on the development of our web sites.
Rosemary Mathis believes the site has helped vaccine damaged children and their families find research necessary to back up their claims of injury for physicians, attorneys and other professional advocates. Many families of Gardasil victims have found the site and contacted Mathis looking for information to assist them while on the terrifying journey to help their loved ones recover.
Prior to the organization’s formation, the SANE Vax team had lengthy discussions about the name and mission statement ‘to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information.’ In the end we decided this was the most appropriate message to reach medical consumers and professionals who are just starting to question vaccine safety and efficacy. Approximately 10,000 people visit the Sane Vax site monthly.
Science – in particular neuro-science – is just beginning to catch up with the concerns parents of vaccine-damaged children have observed for far too long. In order for medical consumers to be able to grant informed consent for vaccine compliance, they need to be aware of the often minimized potential risks of adverse events as well as the potential vaccine benefits. Medical consumers need to know what to do in case of adverse reaction. SANE Vax fills the need for that information.
‘What is most distressing,’ states Botha, ‘is negative studies on vaccine practices, ingredients, and methodology, many on the US government’s PubMed.gov site, have been conducted and known by the pharmaceutical companies and the government for years. Yet they continue to promote vaccines.’
In the past year, members of the SANE Vax team were invited to present research and data on the HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix at the British Society for Ecological Medicine Conference in London. They had an opportunity to privately discuss vaccine concerns with Dr. Andrew Wakefield, as well as other eminent professionals, researchers, vaccine safety advocates and medical consumers.
SANE Vax, Truth About Gardasil, and ThinkExist Productions cooperatively raised $42,000 in donations from medical consumers and professionals for the production of the One More Girl documentary – a compelling film documenting the stories of HPV vaccine victims, their families and professional experts. One More Girl will be released in the summer of 2012.
The SANE Vax team has also published over 100 articles and news releases countering Merck’s claim that Gardasil is safe, affordable, necessary and effective. These articles have been posted on innumerable sites around the globe, prompting interviews by several prominent radio show hosts in the U.S., Panama, and The Netherlands.
Norma Erickson states, “Our message is quite simple. If it is not Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective, medical consumers do not need it. Now is the time for scientific proof of manufacturers’ claims. Show us independent scientific validation. Prove your vaccines are SANE.”
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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need
PRLog (Press Release) - Aug 15, 2011 - SANE Vax Inc. was incorporated in August of 2010, to raise awareness of the science and research behind growing concerns regarding vaccine safety and efficacy. One year later – the SANE Vax message and the research we have compiled has gone global and shared with educators, medical and legal professionals, researchers, journalists and medical consumers world-wide.
To date visitors from 110 countries have visited the web site. Map below can be found on the new SANE Vax site http://sanevax.org under ‘Who’s Online.’ Perhaps pharmaceutical companies, governments and pro-vaccine ‘cults’ will finally begin to understand that vaccine safety and efficacy is a global issue.
SANE Vax Inc. founders, Norma Erickson, President, Rosemary D. Mathis, Vice President of Victim Services, Leslie Carol Botha, Vice-President of Public Relations, Janny Stokvis, Vice President of Research, Freda Birrell, Secretary, and Linda Thompson, Treasurer, would like to express our sincere gratitude to the multitudes of vaccine safety advocates and medical professionals who have provided research and assistance in furthering our endeavors. SANE Vax now has developed a strong network of dedicated professionals, medical consumers and media contacts who understand that the vaccine industry may pose more health risks than the benefits they have promoted for the past 40 years.
The SaneVax Team would also like to thank our colleague, and natural cycle researcher, David Katzmire – http://kalarhythms.org/ for his expertise and countless hours of volunteer work on the development of our web sites.
Rosemary Mathis believes the site has helped vaccine damaged children and their families find research necessary to back up their claims of injury for physicians, attorneys and other professional advocates. Many families of Gardasil victims have found the site and contacted Mathis looking for information to assist them while on the terrifying journey to help their loved ones recover.
Prior to the organization’s formation, the SANE Vax team had lengthy discussions about the name and mission statement ‘to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information.’ In the end we decided this was the most appropriate message to reach medical consumers and professionals who are just starting to question vaccine safety and efficacy. Approximately 10,000 people visit the Sane Vax site monthly.
Science – in particular neuro-science – is just beginning to catch up with the concerns parents of vaccine-damaged children have observed for far too long. In order for medical consumers to be able to grant informed consent for vaccine compliance, they need to be aware of the often minimized potential risks of adverse events as well as the potential vaccine benefits. Medical consumers need to know what to do in case of adverse reaction. SANE Vax fills the need for that information.
‘What is most distressing,’ states Botha, ‘is negative studies on vaccine practices, ingredients, and methodology, many on the US government’s PubMed.gov site, have been conducted and known by the pharmaceutical companies and the government for years. Yet they continue to promote vaccines.’
In the past year, members of the SANE Vax team were invited to present research and data on the HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix at the British Society for Ecological Medicine Conference in London. They had an opportunity to privately discuss vaccine concerns with Dr. Andrew Wakefield, as well as other eminent professionals, researchers, vaccine safety advocates and medical consumers.
SANE Vax, Truth About Gardasil, and ThinkExist Productions cooperatively raised $42,000 in donations from medical consumers and professionals for the production of the One More Girl documentary – a compelling film documenting the stories of HPV vaccine victims, their families and professional experts. One More Girl will be released in the summer of 2012.
The SANE Vax team has also published over 100 articles and news releases countering Merck’s claim that Gardasil is safe, affordable, necessary and effective. These articles have been posted on innumerable sites around the globe, prompting interviews by several prominent radio show hosts in the U.S., Panama, and The Netherlands.
Norma Erickson states, “Our message is quite simple. If it is not Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective, medical consumers do not need it. Now is the time for scientific proof of manufacturers’ claims. Show us independent scientific validation. Prove your vaccines are SANE.”
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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need
Monday, August 8, 2011
Vaccine victims
After witnessing her daughter's widespread suffering, a mother works to spread the word about the potential dangers of Gardasil.
NORTH WILKESBORO --
At night, in the family's basement den, Rosemary Mathis would softly slip in bed beside her sleeping daughter, listening for breath, watching her chest move up and down.
"I was honestly afraid," Mathis said, "that she was going to die in her sleep."
Mathis kept that routine for more than a year as Lauren, her once sunny and energetic 13-year-old daughter, struggled with severe stomach pains, headaches, fever, depression and dementia, causing her to miss most of her eighth-grade year at North Wilkes Middle School.
Mathis felt certain that Lauren's undiagnosed illness could be traced to Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent genital warts and cervical cancer caused by certain strains of the human papillomavirus or HPV, a virus passed on through sexual contact.
During those long nights, as Lauren slept, Mathis immersed herself in prayer.
"I promised God that I would help others if He would take care of her," she said.
More than two years later, with Lauren slowly regaining her health, Mathis remains committed to her end of the promise, transforming herself into an activist who is devoted to spreading the word about a vaccine that she believes endangered her daughter and other young women.
She can't and won't give specific medical advice, but her goal is to simply inform others of what happened to her daughter, confirmed by two doctors as being one of the rare people who are seemingly hurt, instead of helped, by a vaccine. Her two websites are www.truthaboutgardasil.org and www.sanevax.org. Gardasil, which is manufactured by Merck pharmaceuticals, was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2006 to prevent HPV infection, specifically some of the types that cause genital warts and cervical cancer.
Jennifer Allen Woodruff, a spokeswoman for Merck, said her company is "confident in the safety profile of Gardasil."
"There are health organizations throughout the world that have reviewed safety information about Gardasil and continue to recommend its use," she said.
HPV hits nearly half
About half of all people who are sexually active will acquire HPV at some point in their lives, making it the most common sexually transmitted infection, said Dr. Laura Bachmann, an infectious-disease specialist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Most people don't know they are infected because there are no signs or symptoms. In 90 percent of the cases, the body's immune system typically clears the virus on its own.
"For reasons we don't understand, some infections are persistent, and persistent infection is the key to developing these complications, and by that I mean cancer," Bachmann said.
Some women may develop precancerous lesions, which eventually lead to cervical cancer. Of the 12,000 new cases of cervical cancer each year, more than 10,000 are related to HPV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gardasil was developed to protect the body from four of the 100 different types of HPV — two that cause genital warts and two that lead to cervical cancer.
Bachmann sees Gardasil and Cervarix, another recently developed vaccine, as important tools in the battle against cervical cancer, which claims more than 4,000 women each year.
While regular pap smears have drastically reduced the number of cervical cancer deaths, no diagnostic test is perfect, she said. Pap smears also don't detect some of the other cancers, such as vulvar and vaginal, that may develop from HPV.
Upon Gardasil's approval by the FDA, the CDC's immunization advisory council recommended routine vaccination of girls as young as 9. The vaccine is most effective in girls before they become sexually active.
It was tested on 29,000 males and females in clinical trials around the world before it was approved, according to the CDC.
'I'm not anti-vaccine'
Mathis, a wife, mother of two and finance manager for Lowe's Home Improvement, was unfamiliar with Gardasil when she took Lauren to the doctor one day in February 2008 for a routine checkup.
Lauren, a seventh-grader at the time, was enrolled in classes for the academically gifted and enjoyed playing piano in church and for her friends.
Her doctor talked to Mathis about Gardasil, describing it as a series of three shots — spread over about six months — that may cause redness at the site of injection.
"I've always been for vaccinations. I'm not anti-vaccine at all," Mathis said. "The kids always had their vaccines."
She decided that Lauren should have this vaccination as well.
Two weeks later, Lauren complained of stomach pains and body aches and missed about two weeks of school.
Doctors said she had flu.
In April 2008, Lauren got her second shot.
Two weeks later, she was sick again with severe stomach pains and nausea.
Mathis asked the doctor about the vaccination. She was told Lauren had picked up a virus, a diagnosis that seemed plausible to Mathis.
Again, Lauren recovered after a few weeks.
A few months later, weeks before the start of eighth grade, Lauren had her third and final shot.
"It put her flat on her back," Mathis recalled. "By then, I knew what it had to be."
Stomach pain, diarrhea, cramps, depression and panic attacks left her bedridden. School was out of the question.
"I hit a state of depression," Lauren said. "I tried to go to school and just couldn't. I was scared and mad about it. All the doctors felt like I was making it up."
In between work and taking care of Lauren, Mathis connected with an online support group for mothers whose daughters became ill after getting the shots.
Their stories terrified Mathis.
"We would talk to each other and figure out what to do. A lot of them had the same symptoms of Lauren," Mathis said. "And then their child would die. I was honestly scared to death."
Vaccine injury confirmed
She scoured the Internet for information late into the night, worked from her home, tried to keep Lauren up-to-date on her schoolwork and took her to various specialists at Brenner Children's Hospital at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, some of whom told her they suspected she was injured by the vaccine.
A doctor at Duke University Medical Center also confirmed that Lauren was "vaccine injured."
In February 2009, a year after her first shot, Lauren began to recover, with the help of antibiotics and high doses of vitamins, her mother said.
Rather than resume her previous life, Mathis plunged into her role as activist. Using a math acumen that serves her well in her job at Lowe's, she compiled charts and graphs using numbers provided by the CDC to illustrate what she believes is a high rate of adverse events that follow Gardasil shots.
"This is the kind of work I do all day," Mathis said. "The other mothers I would meet really couldn't do this, and I had the ability. I believe that God gives you talent for some reason, and I have the talents to help others, and that's what I'm trying to do."
With help from Marian Greene, a Boone woman whose daughter also became ill after taking Gardasil, she started the website www.truthaboutgardasil.org, which serves as a site for people to share their stories about the vaccine. Mathis also started www.sanevax.org, a nonprofit organization that focuses on educating people about vaccines.
Mathis has also met with FDA officials and recently participated in a documentary about the drug that was financed in part by people who claim Gardasil injured a loved one.
The documentary, "One More Girl," is being produced by Ryan and David Richardson of Hawaii. They became interested in the subject after their sister suffered from fatigue and nausea for a year after getting one shot of Gardasil.
Mathis, who spends about 15 hours a week on issues related to the vaccine, said her work as a crusader is out of character. A devout member of Bethany Baptist Church and a Sunday-school teacher, Mathis called herself a strict mother who always tried to do the right thing for her kids. She urges parents not to rely just on their doctors for vaccine information.
Seeking independent data
Bachmann encourages parents to educate themselves, too. And she believes that if parents look at independent data, they will see that Gardasil is a safe vaccine that can prevent warts and several types of cancers and help patients avoid procedures that may result from abnormal pap smears.
She pointed to data from the CDC that indicate 35 million doses of Gardasil had been distributed in the U.S. by June 22, with 18,000 adverse effects reported, 92 percent of which were labeled "non-serious events," such as fainting and headaches.
There have also been 68 reports of death after a Gardasil shot, according to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, commonly known as VAERS. Thirty-two of the deaths have been confirmed and 36 are unconfirmed because of lack of patient information provided to the reporting system.
The CDC and Bachmann caution that the deaths shouldn't automatically be linked with Gardasil. Of the 32 deaths, there wasn't a pattern to suggest they were caused by the vaccine, according to the CDC.
"It's very difficult when you hear about bad things, but if you were to objectively look at the data right now, there is nothing that is creating a flag," Bachmann said.
Still, Mathis believes that the wider the information swath about Gardasil, the better.
"I'd like to see parents research vaccines before they get them and not go in blindly like I did," she said.
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NORTH WILKESBORO --
At night, in the family's basement den, Rosemary Mathis would softly slip in bed beside her sleeping daughter, listening for breath, watching her chest move up and down.
"I was honestly afraid," Mathis said, "that she was going to die in her sleep."
Mathis kept that routine for more than a year as Lauren, her once sunny and energetic 13-year-old daughter, struggled with severe stomach pains, headaches, fever, depression and dementia, causing her to miss most of her eighth-grade year at North Wilkes Middle School.
Mathis felt certain that Lauren's undiagnosed illness could be traced to Gardasil, a vaccine used to prevent genital warts and cervical cancer caused by certain strains of the human papillomavirus or HPV, a virus passed on through sexual contact.
During those long nights, as Lauren slept, Mathis immersed herself in prayer.
"I promised God that I would help others if He would take care of her," she said.
More than two years later, with Lauren slowly regaining her health, Mathis remains committed to her end of the promise, transforming herself into an activist who is devoted to spreading the word about a vaccine that she believes endangered her daughter and other young women.
She can't and won't give specific medical advice, but her goal is to simply inform others of what happened to her daughter, confirmed by two doctors as being one of the rare people who are seemingly hurt, instead of helped, by a vaccine. Her two websites are www.truthaboutgardasil.org and www.sanevax.org. Gardasil, which is manufactured by Merck pharmaceuticals, was approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2006 to prevent HPV infection, specifically some of the types that cause genital warts and cervical cancer.
Jennifer Allen Woodruff, a spokeswoman for Merck, said her company is "confident in the safety profile of Gardasil."
"There are health organizations throughout the world that have reviewed safety information about Gardasil and continue to recommend its use," she said.
HPV hits nearly half
About half of all people who are sexually active will acquire HPV at some point in their lives, making it the most common sexually transmitted infection, said Dr. Laura Bachmann, an infectious-disease specialist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Most people don't know they are infected because there are no signs or symptoms. In 90 percent of the cases, the body's immune system typically clears the virus on its own.
"For reasons we don't understand, some infections are persistent, and persistent infection is the key to developing these complications, and by that I mean cancer," Bachmann said.
Some women may develop precancerous lesions, which eventually lead to cervical cancer. Of the 12,000 new cases of cervical cancer each year, more than 10,000 are related to HPV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gardasil was developed to protect the body from four of the 100 different types of HPV — two that cause genital warts and two that lead to cervical cancer.
Bachmann sees Gardasil and Cervarix, another recently developed vaccine, as important tools in the battle against cervical cancer, which claims more than 4,000 women each year.
While regular pap smears have drastically reduced the number of cervical cancer deaths, no diagnostic test is perfect, she said. Pap smears also don't detect some of the other cancers, such as vulvar and vaginal, that may develop from HPV.
Upon Gardasil's approval by the FDA, the CDC's immunization advisory council recommended routine vaccination of girls as young as 9. The vaccine is most effective in girls before they become sexually active.
It was tested on 29,000 males and females in clinical trials around the world before it was approved, according to the CDC.
'I'm not anti-vaccine'
Mathis, a wife, mother of two and finance manager for Lowe's Home Improvement, was unfamiliar with Gardasil when she took Lauren to the doctor one day in February 2008 for a routine checkup.
Lauren, a seventh-grader at the time, was enrolled in classes for the academically gifted and enjoyed playing piano in church and for her friends.
Her doctor talked to Mathis about Gardasil, describing it as a series of three shots — spread over about six months — that may cause redness at the site of injection.
"I've always been for vaccinations. I'm not anti-vaccine at all," Mathis said. "The kids always had their vaccines."
She decided that Lauren should have this vaccination as well.
Two weeks later, Lauren complained of stomach pains and body aches and missed about two weeks of school.
Doctors said she had flu.
In April 2008, Lauren got her second shot.
Two weeks later, she was sick again with severe stomach pains and nausea.
Mathis asked the doctor about the vaccination. She was told Lauren had picked up a virus, a diagnosis that seemed plausible to Mathis.
Again, Lauren recovered after a few weeks.
A few months later, weeks before the start of eighth grade, Lauren had her third and final shot.
"It put her flat on her back," Mathis recalled. "By then, I knew what it had to be."
Stomach pain, diarrhea, cramps, depression and panic attacks left her bedridden. School was out of the question.
"I hit a state of depression," Lauren said. "I tried to go to school and just couldn't. I was scared and mad about it. All the doctors felt like I was making it up."
In between work and taking care of Lauren, Mathis connected with an online support group for mothers whose daughters became ill after getting the shots.
Their stories terrified Mathis.
"We would talk to each other and figure out what to do. A lot of them had the same symptoms of Lauren," Mathis said. "And then their child would die. I was honestly scared to death."
Vaccine injury confirmed
She scoured the Internet for information late into the night, worked from her home, tried to keep Lauren up-to-date on her schoolwork and took her to various specialists at Brenner Children's Hospital at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, some of whom told her they suspected she was injured by the vaccine.
A doctor at Duke University Medical Center also confirmed that Lauren was "vaccine injured."
In February 2009, a year after her first shot, Lauren began to recover, with the help of antibiotics and high doses of vitamins, her mother said.
Rather than resume her previous life, Mathis plunged into her role as activist. Using a math acumen that serves her well in her job at Lowe's, she compiled charts and graphs using numbers provided by the CDC to illustrate what she believes is a high rate of adverse events that follow Gardasil shots.
"This is the kind of work I do all day," Mathis said. "The other mothers I would meet really couldn't do this, and I had the ability. I believe that God gives you talent for some reason, and I have the talents to help others, and that's what I'm trying to do."
With help from Marian Greene, a Boone woman whose daughter also became ill after taking Gardasil, she started the website www.truthaboutgardasil.org, which serves as a site for people to share their stories about the vaccine. Mathis also started www.sanevax.org, a nonprofit organization that focuses on educating people about vaccines.
Mathis has also met with FDA officials and recently participated in a documentary about the drug that was financed in part by people who claim Gardasil injured a loved one.
The documentary, "One More Girl," is being produced by Ryan and David Richardson of Hawaii. They became interested in the subject after their sister suffered from fatigue and nausea for a year after getting one shot of Gardasil.
Mathis, who spends about 15 hours a week on issues related to the vaccine, said her work as a crusader is out of character. A devout member of Bethany Baptist Church and a Sunday-school teacher, Mathis called herself a strict mother who always tried to do the right thing for her kids. She urges parents not to rely just on their doctors for vaccine information.
Seeking independent data
Bachmann encourages parents to educate themselves, too. And she believes that if parents look at independent data, they will see that Gardasil is a safe vaccine that can prevent warts and several types of cancers and help patients avoid procedures that may result from abnormal pap smears.
She pointed to data from the CDC that indicate 35 million doses of Gardasil had been distributed in the U.S. by June 22, with 18,000 adverse effects reported, 92 percent of which were labeled "non-serious events," such as fainting and headaches.
There have also been 68 reports of death after a Gardasil shot, according to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, commonly known as VAERS. Thirty-two of the deaths have been confirmed and 36 are unconfirmed because of lack of patient information provided to the reporting system.
The CDC and Bachmann caution that the deaths shouldn't automatically be linked with Gardasil. Of the 32 deaths, there wasn't a pattern to suggest they were caused by the vaccine, according to the CDC.
"It's very difficult when you hear about bad things, but if you were to objectively look at the data right now, there is nothing that is creating a flag," Bachmann said.
Still, Mathis believes that the wider the information swath about Gardasil, the better.
"I'd like to see parents research vaccines before they get them and not go in blindly like I did," she said.
lo'donnell@wsjournal.com (336) 727-7420
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Honey, I Shrink-Wrapped the Kids! Merck Declares No Health Risk - Research Shows Otherwise
In the interest of public health and safety, SaneVax Inc. formally requests the FDA release the lot numbers, number of affected doses and destination of all contaminated vials. This data must be compared to the adverse reactions in VAERS reports.
Aug 04, 2011 - According to Katherine Hobson of the Wall Street Journal: ‘The latest pharma world example of wow-that-really-shouldn’t-be-in-there comes from Merck & Co.’ Last week, reports circulated around the Internet primarily in business/stock market sections of newspapers of yet another FDA investigation exposing the discovery of charred bits of plastic shrink wrap in vials of vaccines made at a plant in West Point, Pa.
According to the Dow Jones Newswires the contaminated vaccines include Gardasil for the prevention of HPV infection, Varivax for chicken pox, Pneumovax for pneumococcal disease, Zostavax for shingles and MMR II for measles, mumps and rubella.
Merck’s official position is the problem is rare and they aren’t aware of any adverse health events associated with the problem. The company remains confident in the safety and efficacy of its products.
Where is the logic – the science – the protection – the ‘do no harm?’ How can injecting vaccines with known contaminants into human beings be an acceptable practice?
This time, it appears the shrink-wrap wasn’t removed from incoming glass vials prior to washing and was charred during the sterilization process, leaving burnt residue in the vials at Merck’s West Point plant.
The FDA has been tracking problems at the West Point plant since 2008. A series of inspection reports have chronicled the issues — most of which have been resolved, according to Merck. Twelve incidents of shrink wrap contamination have been reported since 2009. Merck has responded by moving away from the use of shrink wrap in favor of cardboard trays. Some vials are still shrink-wrapped, however, and the company says it hopes to phase these out by the end of the year, according to Dow Jones.
Merck says there are no reports of adverse health problems, though theoretically the particles could cause a reaction at the injection site. How would Merck know what kind of ‘charred plastic reaction’ that would cause? Have there been any studies conducted to determine whether injecting particles of charred plastic is safe?
Has anyone considered that the real culprit behind the adverse reactions may be invisible toxic chemical emissions interacting with the vaccine?
According to Chem Tec Publishing: ‘Plastic when heated emits volatile organic compounds that contribute to the deterioration of ambient air quality in terms of odors and pollutants…. These contaminants are of particular concern in confined spaces such as car interiors, houses and offices.’1
What about the confined space of a vaccine vial?
What happens to the structure/integrity of a vaccine when exposed to toxic gas? Where are the scientific studies?
So what is shrink wrap made of?
Shrink and stretch wrapping can be quite complex in structure. Most packaging films used for shrink and stretch wrapping are from the polyolefin range. The materials are produced from oil based chemicals by what is called a polymerization process, which basically means getting the right molecules and atoms to club together in a way that is required or desirable for a particular application. The most common plastic materials are polyethylene, polypropylene and poly vinyl chloride.2
What happens when one of these plastics becomes charred? Polymer Plastics emit carbon dioxide and depending on the plastic, the combustion stage produces flames (which can propagate), charred surface layers and can be accompanied by the emission of smoke and toxic gases.3
Polyethylene
In a 2006 Material Safety Data Sheet from Inhance/Fluoro-Seal, Ltd. states that Polyethylene is not classified as hazardous by OSHA standards although it does emit toxic fumes that ‘may include carbon monoxide and other organic vapors’ when burned. However the safety sheet states ‘No adverse health effects are anticipated from the reasonable use of this product.’
This specific product has not been tested for exposure effects on eyes, skin, upon inhalation or ingestion. Nor has it been tested for chronic health effects or potential aggravation of current medical conditions.4
Polypropylene
An environmentally-friendly product, polypropylene is made from carbon and hydrogen, manufactured without any dangerous emissions. When burnt or incinerated, polypropylene will only give off water vapor or carbon dioxide, which is converted by photosynthesis (chlorophyll).5
Poly vinyl chloride
PVC production involves the creation of many toxic chemicals. Dioxins, including TCDD (one of the most toxic synthetic chemicals known) and furans are inescapable by-products of the production of the basic feedstock of PVC, vinyl chloride monomer. PVC needs a host of additives to make it useable. Lead, cadmium or organotins are used as stabilizers. Phthalates are used as softeners in PVC and other chemicals used as colorants, fire-retardants and anti-oxidants. Many of these are released into the environment.
When PVC is incinerated it releases its chlorine content and again causes the release of dioxins which are formed when chlorinated organic compounds, or a mixture of inorganic chloride and organic matter are burned.
Toxic chemicals released during the production, use and disposal of PVC threaten the environment and human health. Dioxins - known carcinogens and hormone disrupters, persist for many years and accumulate in the fatty tissues of living organisms.
Politicians assure us that certain levels are not harmful. Scientists are divided. Arguments about safe levels and tolerable daily intakes miss the point. Mothers should not be forced to feed any level of carcinogenic, or potentially hormone disrupting chemicals to their children.6
Nor should parents be expected to expose their children to contaminated vaccines. When adverse reactions from Gardasil include increased rates of cancer, hormone disruption, infant death post- breast feeding one has to begin to wonder what part of this vaccine is safe and efficacious – not only in terms of listed ingredients but also those that “fall into the mix” during the manufacturing process.
The SaneVax Team is demanding the FDA hold Merck accountable for this new chemical contamination atrocity. Vaccine safety and efficacy cannot be proven until contamination is eliminated. In the interest of public health and safety, release all of the information on the vaccines contaminated with charred plastic. Prove you mean what you say about 'transparency' in government. Medical professionals and consumers alike have a right to know.
Sources:
1. Emissions from Plastics - ChemTec Publishing
http://www.chemtec.org/proddetail.php?prod=978-1-85957-386-0
2. Shrink Wrapping and Stretch Wrapping- ENVIS-ICPE India
http://www.icpeenvis.nic.in/icpefoodnpackaging/pdfs/26_s ...
3. Flammability of Polymers – Zeus Technical White Papers
http://www.zeusinc.com/UserFiles/zeusinc/Documents/Zeus_ ...
4. Material Safety Data Sheet - Inhance/Fluoro-Seal, Ltd. http://www.inhanceproducts.com/msds/MSDS_PE_Films.pdf
5. Polypropylene An Environmentally Responsible Product - Ambro Plastics http://www.ambroplastics.com/getfile.php?location=/ambroplastics/content/UK/text/downloads/polyprop/polyprop.pdf&filename=polyprop.pdf
6. What’s Wrong with PVC? Green Peace
http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/reports/whatswrong.pdf
# # #
SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
Aug 04, 2011 - According to Katherine Hobson of the Wall Street Journal: ‘The latest pharma world example of wow-that-really-shouldn’t-be-in-there comes from Merck & Co.’ Last week, reports circulated around the Internet primarily in business/stock market sections of newspapers of yet another FDA investigation exposing the discovery of charred bits of plastic shrink wrap in vials of vaccines made at a plant in West Point, Pa.
According to the Dow Jones Newswires the contaminated vaccines include Gardasil for the prevention of HPV infection, Varivax for chicken pox, Pneumovax for pneumococcal disease, Zostavax for shingles and MMR II for measles, mumps and rubella.
Merck’s official position is the problem is rare and they aren’t aware of any adverse health events associated with the problem. The company remains confident in the safety and efficacy of its products.
Where is the logic – the science – the protection – the ‘do no harm?’ How can injecting vaccines with known contaminants into human beings be an acceptable practice?
This time, it appears the shrink-wrap wasn’t removed from incoming glass vials prior to washing and was charred during the sterilization process, leaving burnt residue in the vials at Merck’s West Point plant.
The FDA has been tracking problems at the West Point plant since 2008. A series of inspection reports have chronicled the issues — most of which have been resolved, according to Merck. Twelve incidents of shrink wrap contamination have been reported since 2009. Merck has responded by moving away from the use of shrink wrap in favor of cardboard trays. Some vials are still shrink-wrapped, however, and the company says it hopes to phase these out by the end of the year, according to Dow Jones.
Merck says there are no reports of adverse health problems, though theoretically the particles could cause a reaction at the injection site. How would Merck know what kind of ‘charred plastic reaction’ that would cause? Have there been any studies conducted to determine whether injecting particles of charred plastic is safe?
Has anyone considered that the real culprit behind the adverse reactions may be invisible toxic chemical emissions interacting with the vaccine?
According to Chem Tec Publishing: ‘Plastic when heated emits volatile organic compounds that contribute to the deterioration of ambient air quality in terms of odors and pollutants…. These contaminants are of particular concern in confined spaces such as car interiors, houses and offices.’1
What about the confined space of a vaccine vial?
What happens to the structure/integrity of a vaccine when exposed to toxic gas? Where are the scientific studies?
So what is shrink wrap made of?
Shrink and stretch wrapping can be quite complex in structure. Most packaging films used for shrink and stretch wrapping are from the polyolefin range. The materials are produced from oil based chemicals by what is called a polymerization process, which basically means getting the right molecules and atoms to club together in a way that is required or desirable for a particular application. The most common plastic materials are polyethylene, polypropylene and poly vinyl chloride.2
What happens when one of these plastics becomes charred? Polymer Plastics emit carbon dioxide and depending on the plastic, the combustion stage produces flames (which can propagate), charred surface layers and can be accompanied by the emission of smoke and toxic gases.3
Polyethylene
In a 2006 Material Safety Data Sheet from Inhance/Fluoro-Seal, Ltd. states that Polyethylene is not classified as hazardous by OSHA standards although it does emit toxic fumes that ‘may include carbon monoxide and other organic vapors’ when burned. However the safety sheet states ‘No adverse health effects are anticipated from the reasonable use of this product.’
This specific product has not been tested for exposure effects on eyes, skin, upon inhalation or ingestion. Nor has it been tested for chronic health effects or potential aggravation of current medical conditions.4
Polypropylene
An environmentally-friendly product, polypropylene is made from carbon and hydrogen, manufactured without any dangerous emissions. When burnt or incinerated, polypropylene will only give off water vapor or carbon dioxide, which is converted by photosynthesis (chlorophyll).5
Poly vinyl chloride
PVC production involves the creation of many toxic chemicals. Dioxins, including TCDD (one of the most toxic synthetic chemicals known) and furans are inescapable by-products of the production of the basic feedstock of PVC, vinyl chloride monomer. PVC needs a host of additives to make it useable. Lead, cadmium or organotins are used as stabilizers. Phthalates are used as softeners in PVC and other chemicals used as colorants, fire-retardants and anti-oxidants. Many of these are released into the environment.
When PVC is incinerated it releases its chlorine content and again causes the release of dioxins which are formed when chlorinated organic compounds, or a mixture of inorganic chloride and organic matter are burned.
Toxic chemicals released during the production, use and disposal of PVC threaten the environment and human health. Dioxins - known carcinogens and hormone disrupters, persist for many years and accumulate in the fatty tissues of living organisms.
Politicians assure us that certain levels are not harmful. Scientists are divided. Arguments about safe levels and tolerable daily intakes miss the point. Mothers should not be forced to feed any level of carcinogenic, or potentially hormone disrupting chemicals to their children.6
Nor should parents be expected to expose their children to contaminated vaccines. When adverse reactions from Gardasil include increased rates of cancer, hormone disruption, infant death post- breast feeding one has to begin to wonder what part of this vaccine is safe and efficacious – not only in terms of listed ingredients but also those that “fall into the mix” during the manufacturing process.
The SaneVax Team is demanding the FDA hold Merck accountable for this new chemical contamination atrocity. Vaccine safety and efficacy cannot be proven until contamination is eliminated. In the interest of public health and safety, release all of the information on the vaccines contaminated with charred plastic. Prove you mean what you say about 'transparency' in government. Medical professionals and consumers alike have a right to know.
Sources:
1. Emissions from Plastics - ChemTec Publishing
http://www.chemtec.org/proddetail.php?prod=978-1-85957-386-0
2. Shrink Wrapping and Stretch Wrapping- ENVIS-ICPE India
http://www.icpeenvis.nic.in/icpefoodnpackaging/pdfs/26_s ...
3. Flammability of Polymers – Zeus Technical White Papers
http://www.zeusinc.com/UserFiles/zeusinc/Documents/Zeus_ ...
4. Material Safety Data Sheet - Inhance/Fluoro-Seal, Ltd. http://www.inhanceproducts.com/msds/MSDS_PE_Films.pdf
5. Polypropylene An Environmentally Responsible Product - Ambro Plastics http://www.ambroplastics.com/getfile.php?location=/ambroplastics/content/UK/text/downloads/polyprop/polyprop.pdf&filename=polyprop.pdf
6. What’s Wrong with PVC? Green Peace
http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/reports/whatswrong.pdf
# # #
SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Merck's Marketing Department Declares HPV is a Disease! SaneVax Inc. Declares Gardasil a Disease
Merck’s well-honed marketing professionals have done it again – they have captured the attention of parents and girl’s around the country with their marketing campaign labeling HPV a disease.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Merck's 2011 Gardasil Advertising CampaignPRLog (Press Release) – Jul 16, 2011 – Ads have appeared throughout the summer in the national newspapers like Sunday’s Parade Magazine, National Geographic – and this ad found on The Huffington Post blog.
“So when my doctor said Gardasil helps protect me from cervical cancer and other HPV diseases, I figured how could I not?”
The SANE Vax team’s question to Merck is: ‘How could you?’
Selling advertising to young, innocent, ‘happy-go-lucky’ adolescent girls who never heard the term ‘HPV disease’ before is a blatant fear tactic that is nothing short of unethical and morally reprehensible, not to mention illegal.
In 2006, Merck’s team of marketing gurus created the well-known ‘One-Less Girl’ to get Cervical Cancer Campaign. The campaign was heralded as a brilliant success as little girls jumped up and down in their living rooms singing ‘I am going to be one less girl to get cervical cancer;’ instead many of them became one more girl adversely affected by the Gardasil vaccine.
Merck won numerous television ad honors at the 2008 10th Annual Pharmaceutical Advertising and Marketing Excellence Awards (PhAME) gala event at the prestigious Guggenheim Museum in uptown New York City for the ‘One Less Girl’ campaign. Merck’s marketing techniques even earned Gardasil a "pharmaceutical brand of the year" award from Pharmaceutical Executive for its ‘savvy disease
education,’ and building ‘a market out of thin air.” 1.
Not bad for a vaccine against a virus not yet directly linked to causing cervical cancer, 2 but now associated with 22,194 adverse injuries and 97 deaths by researchers, scientists, medical doctors, and parents around the world.
While the majority of the nearly 200 known types of HPV cause no symptoms in most people, some types can cause warts (verrucae), while others can – in a minority of cases – lead to cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, and anus in women, or cancers of the anus and penis in men.
In fact, most HPV infections in young females are temporary with little long-term significance. Seventy percent of infections are gone in 1 year and ninety percent in 2 years. However, when the infection persists — in 5% to 10% of infected women — there is high risk of developing precancerous lesions of the cervix, which can progress to invasive cervical cancer. This process usually takes 15–20 years, providing many opportunities for detection and treatment of the pre-cancerous lesion. Progression to invasive cancer can be almost always prevented when standard prevention strategies are applied, but the lesions still cause considerable burden necessitating preventive surgeries, which do in many cases involve loss of fertility.3.
Gardasil is a Disease
If Merck’s marketing department can spin the truth in the name of profit – then the SANE Vax team will take the same leeway –in the name of justice – and declare Gardasil a disease.
Compare HPV Disease to Gardasil Disease
HPV Disease: potential for cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus and penis from an infection that may take over 15 – 20 years to develop.
Gardasil Disease: Abortion,/Stillbirth/Miscarriage, Addison's Disease, Adrenal failure, Adrenal issues, Allergies, Anxiety/Panic attacks, Appetite loss, Arthritis, Asthma attacks, Autistic - like symptoms, Autoimmune Disease (Lupus / Mixed Connective Tissue Disease), Back pain, Bacterial Vaginosis, Bladder issues, Bleeding gums, Blindness, Bloated, Blood Sugar Issues, Bloody stools, Brain fog, Brain Inflammation, Brain lesions, Bronchitis, Cervical cancer, Chemical sensitivity, Chest pains, Convulsions, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Constipation, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Death, Degenerative disk disease, Dehydration, Depression, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Dizziness, Dyslexia, Dysplasia, Early Onset of Menopause, Enlarged fallopian tubes, Enlarged liver, Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), Extreme pain in the tailbone area , Fainting, Fatigue, Fertility problems, Fever, Fever blisters, Fibromyalgia, Food allergies, Gallbladder issues, Genital Warts, Gray film on teeth, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Hair growth in strange places, Hair loss, Hallucinations, Hand / Leg Weakness, Hasimoto's Disease, Head pressure, Headache, Hearing loss (Permanent), Hearing loss (Temporary), Hearing sensitivity, Heart Palpitations, Heart arrhythmia, High levels of metals in blood: aluminium, mercury Hot / Cold Intolerance, HPV, Infertility, Insomnia, Itching, IUD discomfort, Joint pain, Kidney Failure, Kidney issues, Knee pain, Leaky Gut Syndrome, Light sensitivity, Lip spots, Liver Failure, Loss of bladder control, Lupus, Memory Loss (long-term), Memory Loss (short-term), Menstrual cycle changes, Metallic taste in mouth, Migraines, Miscarriage, Mood Swings, Moles (Increase in number of), Mononucleosis, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), MS-like symptoms, Muscle aches, Muscle spasms, Muscle tension, Nausea, Neurological reactions to fungal metabolites, Neurological symptoms , Night sweats, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Numbness, Other types of cancer, Ovarian failure, Paleness, Paralysis, Pancreatitis, PCOS (Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome), Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), Pelvic pain, Personality changes, Pins / Needles in Extremities, Pleural effusion, Pneumonia, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (Orthostatic Intolerance), Random twitching of extremities Rash, Raynaud's Phenomenon (loss of blood circulation to hands and/or feet), Regression, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ruptured ovarian cysts, Seizures, Sensitivity to commercially processed citric acid, MSG, sulfur and other additives, Severe nerve pain syndrome, Shortness of breath, Sleep Apnea, Slurred speech, Smell sensitivity, Sore throat, Sound sensitivity w/ Anxiety, Stomach ache, Stomach pain, Sudden drops in blood pressure, Swelling / Edema, Swollen lymph nodes, Thyroid Issues, Thrombosis Toothaches/Teeth Changes, Tremors: hand and/or leg, Uterine spasms, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), Vision changes - long term, Vision loss (Permanent), Vision loss (Temporary), Vision Problems - abnormal pupillary function / dilation, Vomiting blood, Weight gain or loss (20 – 30 lbs) 4.
The above adverse injuries have been reported after taking a vaccine that has only been on the market for five years. Gardasil disease apparently afflicts adolescent girls and boys right after the injection, within days, weeks, or perhaps even years. Gardasil disease does not go away and there is no known cure. Girls have literally dropped –dead – passing away before hitting the bathroom floor or drowning in the bathtub. Many adversely injured have ended up in rehabilitation – have become frequent flyers to their local emergency rooms, have seen more doctors than their age and have had to drop out of school and out of their normal lives.
Which would you rather get Gardasil Disease or HPV Disease? Ask the 22,000 girls injured by Gardasil and they will tell you they would rather take their chances with HPV Disease.
Source:
1. Neon Tommy, the online publication for the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism http://www.neontommy.com/2010/01/gardasils-broadreaching ...
2. Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version, National Cancer Institute (NCI) -http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/cervic ...
3. Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus
4. Global Concerns about HPV Vaccines - http://sanevax.org/news-blog/2011/07/global-concerns-about-hpv-vaccines/
# # #
SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Merck's 2011 Gardasil Advertising CampaignPRLog (Press Release) – Jul 16, 2011 – Ads have appeared throughout the summer in the national newspapers like Sunday’s Parade Magazine, National Geographic – and this ad found on The Huffington Post blog.
“So when my doctor said Gardasil helps protect me from cervical cancer and other HPV diseases, I figured how could I not?”
The SANE Vax team’s question to Merck is: ‘How could you?’
Selling advertising to young, innocent, ‘happy-go-lucky’ adolescent girls who never heard the term ‘HPV disease’ before is a blatant fear tactic that is nothing short of unethical and morally reprehensible, not to mention illegal.
In 2006, Merck’s team of marketing gurus created the well-known ‘One-Less Girl’ to get Cervical Cancer Campaign. The campaign was heralded as a brilliant success as little girls jumped up and down in their living rooms singing ‘I am going to be one less girl to get cervical cancer;’ instead many of them became one more girl adversely affected by the Gardasil vaccine.
Merck won numerous television ad honors at the 2008 10th Annual Pharmaceutical Advertising and Marketing Excellence Awards (PhAME) gala event at the prestigious Guggenheim Museum in uptown New York City for the ‘One Less Girl’ campaign. Merck’s marketing techniques even earned Gardasil a "pharmaceutical brand of the year" award from Pharmaceutical Executive for its ‘savvy disease
education,’ and building ‘a market out of thin air.” 1.
Not bad for a vaccine against a virus not yet directly linked to causing cervical cancer, 2 but now associated with 22,194 adverse injuries and 97 deaths by researchers, scientists, medical doctors, and parents around the world.
While the majority of the nearly 200 known types of HPV cause no symptoms in most people, some types can cause warts (verrucae), while others can – in a minority of cases – lead to cancers of the cervix, vulva, vagina, and anus in women, or cancers of the anus and penis in men.
In fact, most HPV infections in young females are temporary with little long-term significance. Seventy percent of infections are gone in 1 year and ninety percent in 2 years. However, when the infection persists — in 5% to 10% of infected women — there is high risk of developing precancerous lesions of the cervix, which can progress to invasive cervical cancer. This process usually takes 15–20 years, providing many opportunities for detection and treatment of the pre-cancerous lesion. Progression to invasive cancer can be almost always prevented when standard prevention strategies are applied, but the lesions still cause considerable burden necessitating preventive surgeries, which do in many cases involve loss of fertility.3.
Gardasil is a Disease
If Merck’s marketing department can spin the truth in the name of profit – then the SANE Vax team will take the same leeway –in the name of justice – and declare Gardasil a disease.
Compare HPV Disease to Gardasil Disease
HPV Disease: potential for cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus and penis from an infection that may take over 15 – 20 years to develop.
Gardasil Disease: Abortion,/Stillbirth/Miscarriage, Addison's Disease, Adrenal failure, Adrenal issues, Allergies, Anxiety/Panic attacks, Appetite loss, Arthritis, Asthma attacks, Autistic - like symptoms, Autoimmune Disease (Lupus / Mixed Connective Tissue Disease), Back pain, Bacterial Vaginosis, Bladder issues, Bleeding gums, Blindness, Bloated, Blood Sugar Issues, Bloody stools, Brain fog, Brain Inflammation, Brain lesions, Bronchitis, Cervical cancer, Chemical sensitivity, Chest pains, Convulsions, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Constipation, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Death, Degenerative disk disease, Dehydration, Depression, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Dizziness, Dyslexia, Dysplasia, Early Onset of Menopause, Enlarged fallopian tubes, Enlarged liver, Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), Extreme pain in the tailbone area , Fainting, Fatigue, Fertility problems, Fever, Fever blisters, Fibromyalgia, Food allergies, Gallbladder issues, Genital Warts, Gray film on teeth, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Hair growth in strange places, Hair loss, Hallucinations, Hand / Leg Weakness, Hasimoto's Disease, Head pressure, Headache, Hearing loss (Permanent), Hearing loss (Temporary), Hearing sensitivity, Heart Palpitations, Heart arrhythmia, High levels of metals in blood: aluminium, mercury Hot / Cold Intolerance, HPV, Infertility, Insomnia, Itching, IUD discomfort, Joint pain, Kidney Failure, Kidney issues, Knee pain, Leaky Gut Syndrome, Light sensitivity, Lip spots, Liver Failure, Loss of bladder control, Lupus, Memory Loss (long-term), Memory Loss (short-term), Menstrual cycle changes, Metallic taste in mouth, Migraines, Miscarriage, Mood Swings, Moles (Increase in number of), Mononucleosis, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), MS-like symptoms, Muscle aches, Muscle spasms, Muscle tension, Nausea, Neurological reactions to fungal metabolites, Neurological symptoms , Night sweats, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Numbness, Other types of cancer, Ovarian failure, Paleness, Paralysis, Pancreatitis, PCOS (Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome), Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), Pelvic pain, Personality changes, Pins / Needles in Extremities, Pleural effusion, Pneumonia, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (Orthostatic Intolerance), Random twitching of extremities Rash, Raynaud's Phenomenon (loss of blood circulation to hands and/or feet), Regression, Rheumatoid arthritis, Ruptured ovarian cysts, Seizures, Sensitivity to commercially processed citric acid, MSG, sulfur and other additives, Severe nerve pain syndrome, Shortness of breath, Sleep Apnea, Slurred speech, Smell sensitivity, Sore throat, Sound sensitivity w/ Anxiety, Stomach ache, Stomach pain, Sudden drops in blood pressure, Swelling / Edema, Swollen lymph nodes, Thyroid Issues, Thrombosis Toothaches/Teeth Changes, Tremors: hand and/or leg, Uterine spasms, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), Vision changes - long term, Vision loss (Permanent), Vision loss (Temporary), Vision Problems - abnormal pupillary function / dilation, Vomiting blood, Weight gain or loss (20 – 30 lbs) 4.
The above adverse injuries have been reported after taking a vaccine that has only been on the market for five years. Gardasil disease apparently afflicts adolescent girls and boys right after the injection, within days, weeks, or perhaps even years. Gardasil disease does not go away and there is no known cure. Girls have literally dropped –dead – passing away before hitting the bathroom floor or drowning in the bathtub. Many adversely injured have ended up in rehabilitation – have become frequent flyers to their local emergency rooms, have seen more doctors than their age and have had to drop out of school and out of their normal lives.
Which would you rather get Gardasil Disease or HPV Disease? Ask the 22,000 girls injured by Gardasil and they will tell you they would rather take their chances with HPV Disease.
Source:
1. Neon Tommy, the online publication for the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism http://www.neontommy.com/2010/01/gardasils-broadreaching ...
2. Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version, National Cancer Institute (NCI) -http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/cervic ...
3. Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus
4. Global Concerns about HPV Vaccines - http://sanevax.org/news-blog/2011/07/global-concerns-about-hpv-vaccines/
# # #
SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Partnering for HPV Vaccine Introduction, Part I: Questions Unanswered
Despite unanswered questions about HPV vaccine efficacy and duration of protection, nine 'partner' organizations chose to proceed making plans for worldwide distribution of Gardasil and Cervarix prior to FDA approval. What is wrong with this picture?
PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 05, 2011 – On 5 October 2005, eight months prior to FDA approval of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO, a regional office of the World Health Organization) sponsored a meeting in Washington D.C. The theme of this meeting was, Partnering for HPV Vaccine Introduction. According to the final report issued after this meeting,1 its purpose was to, “accelerate and strengthen the dialogue between invited partner agencies regarding their interests and plans related to the introduction of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines.”
Of course, both potential vaccine suppliers, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, were ‘invited.’ In addition to the potential suppliers, representatives from the following ‘partnering agencies’ were in attendance:
• The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• The World Health Organization (WHO)
• The International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
• The American Cancer Society (ACS)
• The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• The United States National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
After a brief introduction, representatives of PAHO outlined the activities their organization had already conducted in preparation for the introduction of the yet to be approved HPV vaccines. Then, Merck and GSK each made a brief presentation regarding their respective-proposed HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix.
The presentations made by Merck and GlaxoSmithKline raised the following questions from their ‘partnering agencies’:
• Question 1: How would vaccine efficacy be assessed in young children in the absence of CIN lesions?
• Question 2: How will the issue of consent for HPV vaccine trials in adolescents be handled?
• Question 3: What is the duration of protection conferred by these vaccines?
• Question 4: What level of antibody is actually protection?
According to the final report on this meeting, published by PAHO, the answers given to these questions were sketchy at best. That may be understandable, considering HPV vaccines had not yet been approved by the FDA. However, it is not acceptable for these questions to remain unanswered five years post-FDA approval.
SaneVax Inc. has the following concerns regarding the above-stated questions:
Question 1: Although both vaccine suppliers indicated they were ‘conducting immune-bridging studies,’ the question posed has still not been answered. There is no adequate reliable method of testing HPV vaccine efficacy to this day. Using CIN lesions is not reliable, considering they frequently reverse on their own, without medical intervention. Efficacy against vaccine-relevant HPV genotypes could theoretically be tested via DNA sequencing, but that option is not readily available to medical consumers.
Question 2: Both vaccine suppliers indicated they required consent from the parent, or legal guardian, as well as permission from the subject when trials were conducted with participants below the legal age of consent. This clearly was not the case in India, April 2009, when clinical trials were halted because of alleged ethics violations including boarding school administrators being allowed to give consent for all of the girls attending their school, and other consent forms being returned with a thumbprint (clearly indicating the person granting consent could not read the consent form).2
Question 3: The answer provided by both vaccine suppliers then (information on duration of protection is unavailable at this time), is similar to the one they give today. Both vaccines have been approved for nearly five years. One of the suppliers is already talking about the potential need for a booster shot to maintain protection. Duration of protection is still unknown.
Question 4: The answer given at the time by the vaccine suppliers was, “There are currently no established serologic correlates of protection.” What that means is no matter how many antibodies are produced and circulating in a vaccinated person’s bloodstream, no one knows if you are protected. Serologic correlates have still not been established.
Three of the four questions posed at the meeting are basic questions that should have been answered prior to FDA approval of either HPV vaccine. There must be a reliable way to determine efficacy and antibody level required for protection with any vaccine. These should be determined prior to marketing. Every vaccine carries some risk for some people. If efficacy cannot be determined with accuracy you have nothing left but risk.
Duration of protection should also be well established prior to marketing for the same reason efficacy needs to be determined. No one can logically determine if a vaccine is cost effective when they do not know the duration of protection.
One has to wonder why nine prestigious organizations, responsible for the health and well-being of millions of people, would agree to stand behind and promote any vaccine that could not clearly and scientifically demonstrate the answers to very basic questions regarding the product’s efficacy.
There are only a couple of options available to medical consumers to determine HPV vaccines’ efficacy. One, wait 20 or more years to see if HPV vaccines actually make an impact on cervical cancer rates; or two, demand post licensure monitoring that includes HPV DNA sequencing to find out if the vaccines are actually making an impact on vaccine-relevant genotypes of HPV.
The SaneVax Team votes for – No adequate post-licensure monitoring – No marketing!
Sources:
1. Partnering For HPV Vaccine Introduction, Final Report: Visit http://www.paho.org/English/AD/FCH/IM/HPVMtg-FinalReport ... for details.
2. "Human Smears" by Madhavi Tata, visit http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?277351 for details
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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 05, 2011 – On 5 October 2005, eight months prior to FDA approval of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO, a regional office of the World Health Organization) sponsored a meeting in Washington D.C. The theme of this meeting was, Partnering for HPV Vaccine Introduction. According to the final report issued after this meeting,1 its purpose was to, “accelerate and strengthen the dialogue between invited partner agencies regarding their interests and plans related to the introduction of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines.”
Of course, both potential vaccine suppliers, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, were ‘invited.’ In addition to the potential suppliers, representatives from the following ‘partnering agencies’ were in attendance:
• The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• The World Health Organization (WHO)
• The International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
• The American Cancer Society (ACS)
• The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• The United States National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
After a brief introduction, representatives of PAHO outlined the activities their organization had already conducted in preparation for the introduction of the yet to be approved HPV vaccines. Then, Merck and GSK each made a brief presentation regarding their respective-proposed HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix.
The presentations made by Merck and GlaxoSmithKline raised the following questions from their ‘partnering agencies’:
• Question 1: How would vaccine efficacy be assessed in young children in the absence of CIN lesions?
• Question 2: How will the issue of consent for HPV vaccine trials in adolescents be handled?
• Question 3: What is the duration of protection conferred by these vaccines?
• Question 4: What level of antibody is actually protection?
According to the final report on this meeting, published by PAHO, the answers given to these questions were sketchy at best. That may be understandable, considering HPV vaccines had not yet been approved by the FDA. However, it is not acceptable for these questions to remain unanswered five years post-FDA approval.
SaneVax Inc. has the following concerns regarding the above-stated questions:
Question 1: Although both vaccine suppliers indicated they were ‘conducting immune-bridging studies,’ the question posed has still not been answered. There is no adequate reliable method of testing HPV vaccine efficacy to this day. Using CIN lesions is not reliable, considering they frequently reverse on their own, without medical intervention. Efficacy against vaccine-relevant HPV genotypes could theoretically be tested via DNA sequencing, but that option is not readily available to medical consumers.
Question 2: Both vaccine suppliers indicated they required consent from the parent, or legal guardian, as well as permission from the subject when trials were conducted with participants below the legal age of consent. This clearly was not the case in India, April 2009, when clinical trials were halted because of alleged ethics violations including boarding school administrators being allowed to give consent for all of the girls attending their school, and other consent forms being returned with a thumbprint (clearly indicating the person granting consent could not read the consent form).2
Question 3: The answer provided by both vaccine suppliers then (information on duration of protection is unavailable at this time), is similar to the one they give today. Both vaccines have been approved for nearly five years. One of the suppliers is already talking about the potential need for a booster shot to maintain protection. Duration of protection is still unknown.
Question 4: The answer given at the time by the vaccine suppliers was, “There are currently no established serologic correlates of protection.” What that means is no matter how many antibodies are produced and circulating in a vaccinated person’s bloodstream, no one knows if you are protected. Serologic correlates have still not been established.
Three of the four questions posed at the meeting are basic questions that should have been answered prior to FDA approval of either HPV vaccine. There must be a reliable way to determine efficacy and antibody level required for protection with any vaccine. These should be determined prior to marketing. Every vaccine carries some risk for some people. If efficacy cannot be determined with accuracy you have nothing left but risk.
Duration of protection should also be well established prior to marketing for the same reason efficacy needs to be determined. No one can logically determine if a vaccine is cost effective when they do not know the duration of protection.
One has to wonder why nine prestigious organizations, responsible for the health and well-being of millions of people, would agree to stand behind and promote any vaccine that could not clearly and scientifically demonstrate the answers to very basic questions regarding the product’s efficacy.
There are only a couple of options available to medical consumers to determine HPV vaccines’ efficacy. One, wait 20 or more years to see if HPV vaccines actually make an impact on cervical cancer rates; or two, demand post licensure monitoring that includes HPV DNA sequencing to find out if the vaccines are actually making an impact on vaccine-relevant genotypes of HPV.
The SaneVax Team votes for – No adequate post-licensure monitoring – No marketing!
Sources:
1. Partnering For HPV Vaccine Introduction, Final Report: Visit http://www.paho.org/English/AD/FCH/IM/HPVMtg-FinalReport ... for details.
2. "Human Smears" by Madhavi Tata, visit http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?277351 for details
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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
Spinning the Spin Part II: Marketing Scientific Research & Studies
Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 28, 2011 – My father, once a pharmaceutical packaging salesman and now an Alzheimer’s nursing home patient whose mental clarity declined rapidly post- flu vaccination – once told me ‘never believe in everything that is advertised.’ Truer advice was never given. Perhaps that is when I started questioning the marketing on products about women’s health, always reading between the lines and doing my own research.
Over the last 30 years – marketing and advertising has taken hold of the world. Consumers are continually bombarded with sales pitches for everything from the latest and greatest technological toys to medications and vaccines. Marketing campaigns for women’s health products are orchestrated with as much flare and fanfare as a formal event. 1. Gardasil was no exception.
In 2006, the HPV vaccine Gardasil was introduced to a public generally unaware of Human Papillomavirus or its supposed threat to adolescent girls and women. However, the public was quickly informed of the ‘dangers’ of the virus when Merck Pharmaceutical Company launched an aggressive One Less Girl to get Cervical Cancer advertising campaign – with an awarding-winning jingle that had adolescent girls dancing in their living rooms – determined to become one less victim of cervical cancer.
According to Neon Tommy, the campaign was successful. Merck’s marketing techniques earned Gardasil a “pharmaceutical brand of the year” award from Pharmaceutical Executive for its ‘savvy disease education,’ and creating ‘a market out of thin air.” 2.
OK – so as medical consumers we get the promotion of products….but when did scientific research sell out to marketing companies and the media?
How Women are Viewed by the Pharma/Medical Complex
In order to understand why this latest HPV vaccine uncontrolled medical experiment has been conducted on adolescent girls and now boy’s ages 9 to 26, it is important to recognize the social/political context of how women are perceived by the medical industry.
In their recently updated book, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English expose the reasons for medical experiments on women.
“Since the nineteenth century, “experts” have been telling women how to take care of themselves. Generations of highly respected mainstream physicians have proclaimed most aspects of women’s lives an indication of weakness, from menstruation (illness requiring seclusion) to pregnancy (a disabling disease), to reading or intense conversation (a hazard to women’s health). Even domesticity, the prescription for a safe environment for women, became a domain for legions of “scientific” experts…. Yet experts continue to use pseudo-science to tell women how to live."
Ehrenreich and English write in the book’s introduction:
No matter how many degrees the experts dangle in front of you, no matter how many studies they cite, dig deeper, value your own real-life experiences, and think for yourself.3.
So when Reuters and CNBC.com and other world press picked up the story out of Australia (Ian Frazer country) this past week: Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine 4. The SANE Vax team immediately started investigating.
According to Julia Brotherton, an epidemiologist with the Victorian Cytology Service Registries and lead author of the paper; "This data ... shows a reduction in the number of very young woman with high grade cervical lesions diagnosed since the vaccine program started."
However, mid-way through the article, Associate Professor Karen Canfell, an epidemiologist with the Cancer Council of New South Wales commented that "The study looked at overall trends, and we cannot be absolutely certain that the drop in cervical abnormalities in the youngest age group was due to HPV vaccination."
Norma Erickson, president of SANE Vax, Inc. immediately found the flaw in the data used in the study and commented, “Both groups showed less than 1% cervical abnormalities – which is statistically accurate across the board.
How can anyone state a reduction from 0.8% to 0.42% is a significant reduction? Technically, I will admit it is almost a 50% reduction but in 1,000 girls – that would be a reduction from 8 with abnormal cells to 4 with abnormal cells….which pap smears would catch a whole lot cheaper than paying $300,000 to vaccinate the same thousand girls – not to mention they still need pap screening regardless of vaccination status.”
Diane Harper as well as many other researchers in the field – have stated that it will be at least 20 years before it is known whether or not the HPV vaccines will have impacted the worldwide cervical cancer rates.
Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine in Australia and creator of the HPV vaccine – stated in an Australian newspaper article titled God’s Gift to Women, “HPV vaccines should eventually eliminate a number of epithelial cancers and reduce the annual burden of cancer deaths globally by 5%–10%.” 5.
It is truly unfortunate, that instead of utilizing an already proven, safe and effective means of reducing cervical cancer risk; the medical marketing ‘experts’ at Merck, the FDA, CDC, and NCI decided to ‘re-educate’ medical consumers and push a vaccine that has not been scientifically proven safe, affordable, necessary, or effective. Perhaps, it is not medical consumers that need to be ‘re-educated’ - Perhaps it is time for the medical ‘experts’ to learn - if medications/vaccinations are not Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective, medical consumers do not want them.
Sources:
1. Susan Rako MD - http://www.susanrako.com/article5.htm
2. Neon Tommy: http://www.neontommy.com/2010/01/gardasils-broadreaching ...
3. For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women: http://www.isbnlib.com/preview/1400078008/For-Her-Own-Go ...
4. Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine: http://www.cnbc.com/id/43433951
5. God’s Gift to Women: The Human Papillomavirus http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2010/07/HPV-Fraser-Imm-20061.pdf
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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 28, 2011 – My father, once a pharmaceutical packaging salesman and now an Alzheimer’s nursing home patient whose mental clarity declined rapidly post- flu vaccination – once told me ‘never believe in everything that is advertised.’ Truer advice was never given. Perhaps that is when I started questioning the marketing on products about women’s health, always reading between the lines and doing my own research.
Over the last 30 years – marketing and advertising has taken hold of the world. Consumers are continually bombarded with sales pitches for everything from the latest and greatest technological toys to medications and vaccines. Marketing campaigns for women’s health products are orchestrated with as much flare and fanfare as a formal event. 1. Gardasil was no exception.
In 2006, the HPV vaccine Gardasil was introduced to a public generally unaware of Human Papillomavirus or its supposed threat to adolescent girls and women. However, the public was quickly informed of the ‘dangers’ of the virus when Merck Pharmaceutical Company launched an aggressive One Less Girl to get Cervical Cancer advertising campaign – with an awarding-winning jingle that had adolescent girls dancing in their living rooms – determined to become one less victim of cervical cancer.
According to Neon Tommy, the campaign was successful. Merck’s marketing techniques earned Gardasil a “pharmaceutical brand of the year” award from Pharmaceutical Executive for its ‘savvy disease education,’ and creating ‘a market out of thin air.” 2.
OK – so as medical consumers we get the promotion of products….but when did scientific research sell out to marketing companies and the media?
How Women are Viewed by the Pharma/Medical Complex
In order to understand why this latest HPV vaccine uncontrolled medical experiment has been conducted on adolescent girls and now boy’s ages 9 to 26, it is important to recognize the social/political context of how women are perceived by the medical industry.
In their recently updated book, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English expose the reasons for medical experiments on women.
“Since the nineteenth century, “experts” have been telling women how to take care of themselves. Generations of highly respected mainstream physicians have proclaimed most aspects of women’s lives an indication of weakness, from menstruation (illness requiring seclusion) to pregnancy (a disabling disease), to reading or intense conversation (a hazard to women’s health). Even domesticity, the prescription for a safe environment for women, became a domain for legions of “scientific” experts…. Yet experts continue to use pseudo-science to tell women how to live."
Ehrenreich and English write in the book’s introduction:
No matter how many degrees the experts dangle in front of you, no matter how many studies they cite, dig deeper, value your own real-life experiences, and think for yourself.3.
So when Reuters and CNBC.com and other world press picked up the story out of Australia (Ian Frazer country) this past week: Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine 4. The SANE Vax team immediately started investigating.
According to Julia Brotherton, an epidemiologist with the Victorian Cytology Service Registries and lead author of the paper; "This data ... shows a reduction in the number of very young woman with high grade cervical lesions diagnosed since the vaccine program started."
However, mid-way through the article, Associate Professor Karen Canfell, an epidemiologist with the Cancer Council of New South Wales commented that "The study looked at overall trends, and we cannot be absolutely certain that the drop in cervical abnormalities in the youngest age group was due to HPV vaccination."
Norma Erickson, president of SANE Vax, Inc. immediately found the flaw in the data used in the study and commented, “Both groups showed less than 1% cervical abnormalities – which is statistically accurate across the board.
How can anyone state a reduction from 0.8% to 0.42% is a significant reduction? Technically, I will admit it is almost a 50% reduction but in 1,000 girls – that would be a reduction from 8 with abnormal cells to 4 with abnormal cells….which pap smears would catch a whole lot cheaper than paying $300,000 to vaccinate the same thousand girls – not to mention they still need pap screening regardless of vaccination status.”
Diane Harper as well as many other researchers in the field – have stated that it will be at least 20 years before it is known whether or not the HPV vaccines will have impacted the worldwide cervical cancer rates.
Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine in Australia and creator of the HPV vaccine – stated in an Australian newspaper article titled God’s Gift to Women, “HPV vaccines should eventually eliminate a number of epithelial cancers and reduce the annual burden of cancer deaths globally by 5%–10%.” 5.
It is truly unfortunate, that instead of utilizing an already proven, safe and effective means of reducing cervical cancer risk; the medical marketing ‘experts’ at Merck, the FDA, CDC, and NCI decided to ‘re-educate’ medical consumers and push a vaccine that has not been scientifically proven safe, affordable, necessary, or effective. Perhaps, it is not medical consumers that need to be ‘re-educated’ - Perhaps it is time for the medical ‘experts’ to learn - if medications/vaccinations are not Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective, medical consumers do not want them.
Sources:
1. Susan Rako MD - http://www.susanrako.com/article5.htm
2. Neon Tommy: http://www.neontommy.com/2010/01/gardasils-broadreaching ...
3. For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women: http://www.isbnlib.com/preview/1400078008/For-Her-Own-Go ...
4. Fewer girls develop cervical abnormalities after HPV vaccine: http://www.cnbc.com/id/43433951
5. God’s Gift to Women: The Human Papillomavirus http://holyhormones.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2010/07/HPV-Fraser-Imm-20061.pdf
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SaneVax believes only Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices should be offered to the public. Our primary goal is to provide scientific information/resources for those concerned about vaccine safety, efficacy and need.
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