December 30, 2010 Published in AGE OF AUTISM
SANEVAX Questions the FDA Approval of Merck's Gardasil for anal cancer. Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the vaccine division for Merck, was the head of the CDC under President Bush, and was responsible for the pediatric vaccine schedule, which included adding Dr. Paul Offit's Merck vaccine RotaTeq during her watch. From SANEVAX, a watchdog group concerned with adverse reactions, including death, from the genital wart vaccine called Gardasil (and it's competitor from GlaxoSmithKline Cevarix.)
...According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 5,260 people will be diagnosed with anal cancer in 2010 (United States). 720 fatalities due to anal cancer are anticipated. The average age at diagnosis is 60. The data presented in a 1996 study indicates you are over 10 times more likely to die from an overdose of over-the-counter pain medications, such as aspirin, than you are to die of anal cancer. Merck made no mention of these facts anywhere in the documentation they presented to the FDA.
SaneVax wants to know, “In what universe does this make a convincing argument for vaccinating people ages 9 to 26?”
Read the full story at http://sanevax.org/blog/?p=1594.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Gardasil: Merck presents more flawed data - FDA grants extended use
The FDA continues to spark controversy over Merck's Gardasil vaccine, as they ignore scientific principles to grant approval for extended use as a preventative for anal cancer and anal intraepithelial neoplasm. The SaneVax Team wants to know why.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Merck announced the FDA had granted permission for Gardasil to be used in the prevention of anal cancer in the male and female population, ages 9 through 26.
The SaneVax team finds this situation appalling, to say the least. After having studied the information Merck presented to the FDA Vaccines and Related Biologics Committee (VRBPAC) to secure this extended use, we cannot sit idly by and let medical consumers around the world accept these ‘facts’ at face value.
First, let it be said that any Advisory Committee Open Meetings to review applications for extended use are supposed to be public. The FDA has yet to publish the minutes from the meeting where they agreed to expand Gardasil’s use to include AIN and anal cancer.
Second, medical consumers need to know the real threat anal cancer presents. According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 5,260 people will be diagnosed with anal cancer in 2010 (United States). 720 fatalities due to anal cancer are anticipated. The average age at diagnosis is 60. The data presented in a 1996 study indicates you are over 10 times more likely to die from an overdose of over-the-counter pain medications, such as aspirin, than you are to die of anal cancer. Merck made no mention of these facts anywhere in the documentation they presented to the FDA.
SaneVax wants to know, “In what universe does this make a convincing argument for vaccinating people ages 9 to 26?”
In addition, Merck once again blatantly chose a double standard to set the endpoints for efficacy analysis to suit different purposes within the same document. On one hand, they quoted the authoritative National Cancer Institute (NCI) opinion that high-grade AIN 2/3 is a premalignant lesion in order to justify using reversible and poorly defined precancerous histological changes as the endpoint for evaluating Gardasil’s potential to prevent anal cancer.
On the other hand, when it came to ‘judging’ the real efficacy of Gardasil against premalignant lesions, they suddenly switched to using AIN of any grade, not necessarily high grade 2/3, as the determining factor. This is a gross deception because, as Merck should have known, AIN grade 1, and grade 2, lesions are frequently self-reversing and do not lead to cancer at all.
Furthermore, Merck stated HPV infection is the key in pathogenesis of anal cancer. In their selection of MSM (males who have sex with males) study subjects, Merck emphasized that key exclusion criteria included a history of HPV-related disease or infection. However, potential subjects were only examined for ‘visible signs’ of HPV infection; not screened via PCR, or tested for seropositivity prior to enrollment.
On the other hand, under Disease Endpoint Adjudication, it was required that at least one of HPV types 6, 11, 16 or 18 detected be confirmed by Thinsection PCR. Since no PCR testing was performed at the time of enrollment, a high percentage of study subjects already infected with HPV, but without ‘visible signs,’ might have been assigned to the placebo group, thus giving the vaccine group an artificially high appearance of efficacy. Since there was no PCR-based common denominator established at the outset of the clinical trial, efficacy results based on PCR endpoint analysis should not be accepted as valid.
For confirmation of type-specific HPV infections during the trials, Merck did not use an FDA-approved genotyping method, or, the reliable HPV DNA short target sequences genotyping recommended by the NCI. Because of this choice, no one knows how many subjects began the trials with prior exposure to vaccine-relevant HPV; nor does anyone know for sure how many subjects were infected by any vaccine-relevant HPV at the end of the trials.
One additional problem is HPV types 6 and 11 are classified as low risk, meaning they are not normally associated with any type of cancer. Even so, Merck included 19 cases of AIN related to these two low-risk HPV genotypes to demonstrate the ‘efficacy’ of Gardasil against anal cancer.
SaneVax believes perhaps it is time the FDA stop claiming they are a “science-based, science-driven regulatory agency responsible for the safety, efficacy and security of drugs and medical devices.”
When it comes to the safety, efficacy and security of FDA approved vaccines medical consumers are apparently on their own.
Sources:
http://sanevax.org/pdf/VRBPAC-gardasil-2010-anal-cancer.pdf
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/anal
http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm181509.htm
For more information, go to http://sanevax.org/
Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Merck announced the FDA had granted permission for Gardasil to be used in the prevention of anal cancer in the male and female population, ages 9 through 26.
The SaneVax team finds this situation appalling, to say the least. After having studied the information Merck presented to the FDA Vaccines and Related Biologics Committee (VRBPAC) to secure this extended use, we cannot sit idly by and let medical consumers around the world accept these ‘facts’ at face value.
First, let it be said that any Advisory Committee Open Meetings to review applications for extended use are supposed to be public. The FDA has yet to publish the minutes from the meeting where they agreed to expand Gardasil’s use to include AIN and anal cancer.
Second, medical consumers need to know the real threat anal cancer presents. According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 5,260 people will be diagnosed with anal cancer in 2010 (United States). 720 fatalities due to anal cancer are anticipated. The average age at diagnosis is 60. The data presented in a 1996 study indicates you are over 10 times more likely to die from an overdose of over-the-counter pain medications, such as aspirin, than you are to die of anal cancer. Merck made no mention of these facts anywhere in the documentation they presented to the FDA.
SaneVax wants to know, “In what universe does this make a convincing argument for vaccinating people ages 9 to 26?”
In addition, Merck once again blatantly chose a double standard to set the endpoints for efficacy analysis to suit different purposes within the same document. On one hand, they quoted the authoritative National Cancer Institute (NCI) opinion that high-grade AIN 2/3 is a premalignant lesion in order to justify using reversible and poorly defined precancerous histological changes as the endpoint for evaluating Gardasil’s potential to prevent anal cancer.
On the other hand, when it came to ‘judging’ the real efficacy of Gardasil against premalignant lesions, they suddenly switched to using AIN of any grade, not necessarily high grade 2/3, as the determining factor. This is a gross deception because, as Merck should have known, AIN grade 1, and grade 2, lesions are frequently self-reversing and do not lead to cancer at all.
Furthermore, Merck stated HPV infection is the key in pathogenesis of anal cancer. In their selection of MSM (males who have sex with males) study subjects, Merck emphasized that key exclusion criteria included a history of HPV-related disease or infection. However, potential subjects were only examined for ‘visible signs’ of HPV infection; not screened via PCR, or tested for seropositivity prior to enrollment.
On the other hand, under Disease Endpoint Adjudication, it was required that at least one of HPV types 6, 11, 16 or 18 detected be confirmed by Thinsection PCR. Since no PCR testing was performed at the time of enrollment, a high percentage of study subjects already infected with HPV, but without ‘visible signs,’ might have been assigned to the placebo group, thus giving the vaccine group an artificially high appearance of efficacy. Since there was no PCR-based common denominator established at the outset of the clinical trial, efficacy results based on PCR endpoint analysis should not be accepted as valid.
For confirmation of type-specific HPV infections during the trials, Merck did not use an FDA-approved genotyping method, or, the reliable HPV DNA short target sequences genotyping recommended by the NCI. Because of this choice, no one knows how many subjects began the trials with prior exposure to vaccine-relevant HPV; nor does anyone know for sure how many subjects were infected by any vaccine-relevant HPV at the end of the trials.
One additional problem is HPV types 6 and 11 are classified as low risk, meaning they are not normally associated with any type of cancer. Even so, Merck included 19 cases of AIN related to these two low-risk HPV genotypes to demonstrate the ‘efficacy’ of Gardasil against anal cancer.
SaneVax believes perhaps it is time the FDA stop claiming they are a “science-based, science-driven regulatory agency responsible for the safety, efficacy and security of drugs and medical devices.”
When it comes to the safety, efficacy and security of FDA approved vaccines medical consumers are apparently on their own.
Sources:
http://sanevax.org/pdf/VRBPAC-gardasil-2010-anal-cancer.pdf
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/anal
http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm181509.htm
For more information, go to http://sanevax.org/
Monday, December 27, 2010
S.A.N.E Vax Objects to FDA Ruling Gardasil Use for Anal Cancer for 9 to 26 year olds
Increasing Number of Consumers are Concerned over HPV Vaccine Safety. When will the FDA and the CDC take the initiative to investigate the side effects of the HPV Vaccines?
The FDA’s December 22, 2010 ruling to expand the use of Gardasil for anal cancer prevention is unacceptable, according to Norma Erickson, President of S.A.N.E Vax. Last Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil for the prevention of anal cancer and associated pre-cancer lesions due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16, and 18 in people ages 9 through 26 years. Immediately, the news flooded the media – with many postings on HIV/AIDS sites.
However, medical consumers are unaware the 2010 Gardasil® Patient Product Information (PPI) states if a woman has “…immune problems, like HIV infection, cancer, or takes medicines that affect the immune system” they must be reported to the health care provider. This should be of grave concern to HIV/AID patients and their physicians who may consider the vaccine to “prevent” anal cancer.
Gardasil is already approved for the same age population for the prevention of cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer and the associated precancerous lesions caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 in females, and for the prevention of genital warts caused by types 6 and 11 in both males and females in the same age group.
This same group of women has reported over 20,915 adverse reactions – mostly from Gardasil to VAERS – the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. In addition, 89 deaths and 382 abnormal pap tests post vaccination have been reported with an estimated 1 to 10% of the population filing, according to the National Vaccine Information Center. The rate of deaths and adverse reactions are reported as a percentage of doses distributed, not doses actually administered, and therefore CDC statistics on reported injuries are not portraying the truth.
Data on adverse reactions from males ages 9 to 26 are just starting to be reported to VAERS. Hundreds of social media sited, journalists, researchers and educators have joined forces to publicly decry the faulty science, data, research and fast-tracking of this vaccine through the FDA.
Of course, Merck & Co. denies a causal relationship between the adverse reactions and deaths to their award-winning vaccine. However, on December 20, the QMI News Agency in Canada reported a Quebec coroner can't explain why a 14-year-old girl died after receiving a dose of the Gardasil vaccine. Even though coroner Michel Ferland's report concludes the adolescent girl died from drowning, and while there is no evidence the shot killed the teenager, he is refusing to rule out a link between Gardasil and her death.
On December 13, Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today wrote an article titled: Many Fail to Finish HPV Series as Recommended stating that “…Many girls and young women may not be completing all three doses of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in a timely fashion…” According to Dr. Lea Widdice, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; in a single-institution retrospective analysis, only 14% of girls and young women completed all three doses within seven months of the first, and only 28% did so within 12 months.
Although statistical data was cited for non-compliance, SANE VAX wants to know if the girls were surveyed for their reasons in not completing the vaccine series. Until the true reasons are known, consumers must remain wary about the potential health dangers from the administration of Gardasil and Cervarix.
According to the FDA there are limitations on the use and effectiveness of Gardasil:
• GARDASIL does not eliminate the necessity for women to continue to undergo recommended cervical cancer screening.
• GARDASIL has not been demonstrated to provide protection against disease from vaccine and non-vaccine HPV types to which a person has previously been exposed through sexual activity.
• GARDASIL is not intended to be used for treatment of active external genital lesions; cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancers; CIN; VIN; or VaIN.
• GARDASIL has not been demonstrated to protect against diseases due to HPV types not contained in the vaccine.
• Not all vulvar and vaginal cancers are caused by HPV, and GARDASIL protects only against those vulvar and vaginal cancers caused by HPV 16 and 18.
• GARDASIL does not protect against genital diseases not caused by HPV.
• Vaccination with GARDASIL may not result in protection in all vaccine recipients.
According to the recently revised copy of “Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version,” published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI): “The finding of HPV viral DNA integrated in most cellular genomes of cervical carcinomas supports epidemiologic data linking this agent to cervical cancer however, direct causation has not been demonstrated.”
On October 19, 2010 S.A.N.E. Vax submitted a formal letter to Jack Stapleton, M.D., Chair Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding Valid endpoint and reliable HPV genotyping for expanded use proposal of Gardasil® vaccine stating… “In the interest of promoting and protecting the public health, S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. respectfully requests that expanded use for Gardasil® as an anal cancer preventive vaccine be delayed, until such time as the efficacy of the vaccine is properly evaluated using the true endpoint for anal cancer prevention, and a reliable HPV genotyping method for detection of type-specific HPV infections.”
The Gardasil vaccine campaign on unsuspecting and ill-informed medical consumers must be halted until an independent study demonstrates the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. As it stands, this is a classic case of pharma/government vs. medical consumers with monumental social/political implications. The HPV vaccine travesty will go down in history as an example of unethical experimental medical procedures harming the health and well being of the very people the vaccines were supposedly designed to protect.
For more information, visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
The FDA’s December 22, 2010 ruling to expand the use of Gardasil for anal cancer prevention is unacceptable, according to Norma Erickson, President of S.A.N.E Vax. Last Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil for the prevention of anal cancer and associated pre-cancer lesions due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16, and 18 in people ages 9 through 26 years. Immediately, the news flooded the media – with many postings on HIV/AIDS sites.
However, medical consumers are unaware the 2010 Gardasil® Patient Product Information (PPI) states if a woman has “…immune problems, like HIV infection, cancer, or takes medicines that affect the immune system” they must be reported to the health care provider. This should be of grave concern to HIV/AID patients and their physicians who may consider the vaccine to “prevent” anal cancer.
Gardasil is already approved for the same age population for the prevention of cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer and the associated precancerous lesions caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 in females, and for the prevention of genital warts caused by types 6 and 11 in both males and females in the same age group.
This same group of women has reported over 20,915 adverse reactions – mostly from Gardasil to VAERS – the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. In addition, 89 deaths and 382 abnormal pap tests post vaccination have been reported with an estimated 1 to 10% of the population filing, according to the National Vaccine Information Center. The rate of deaths and adverse reactions are reported as a percentage of doses distributed, not doses actually administered, and therefore CDC statistics on reported injuries are not portraying the truth.
Data on adverse reactions from males ages 9 to 26 are just starting to be reported to VAERS. Hundreds of social media sited, journalists, researchers and educators have joined forces to publicly decry the faulty science, data, research and fast-tracking of this vaccine through the FDA.
Of course, Merck & Co. denies a causal relationship between the adverse reactions and deaths to their award-winning vaccine. However, on December 20, the QMI News Agency in Canada reported a Quebec coroner can't explain why a 14-year-old girl died after receiving a dose of the Gardasil vaccine. Even though coroner Michel Ferland's report concludes the adolescent girl died from drowning, and while there is no evidence the shot killed the teenager, he is refusing to rule out a link between Gardasil and her death.
On December 13, Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today wrote an article titled: Many Fail to Finish HPV Series as Recommended stating that “…Many girls and young women may not be completing all three doses of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in a timely fashion…” According to Dr. Lea Widdice, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; in a single-institution retrospective analysis, only 14% of girls and young women completed all three doses within seven months of the first, and only 28% did so within 12 months.
Although statistical data was cited for non-compliance, SANE VAX wants to know if the girls were surveyed for their reasons in not completing the vaccine series. Until the true reasons are known, consumers must remain wary about the potential health dangers from the administration of Gardasil and Cervarix.
According to the FDA there are limitations on the use and effectiveness of Gardasil:
• GARDASIL does not eliminate the necessity for women to continue to undergo recommended cervical cancer screening.
• GARDASIL has not been demonstrated to provide protection against disease from vaccine and non-vaccine HPV types to which a person has previously been exposed through sexual activity.
• GARDASIL is not intended to be used for treatment of active external genital lesions; cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancers; CIN; VIN; or VaIN.
• GARDASIL has not been demonstrated to protect against diseases due to HPV types not contained in the vaccine.
• Not all vulvar and vaginal cancers are caused by HPV, and GARDASIL protects only against those vulvar and vaginal cancers caused by HPV 16 and 18.
• GARDASIL does not protect against genital diseases not caused by HPV.
• Vaccination with GARDASIL may not result in protection in all vaccine recipients.
According to the recently revised copy of “Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version,” published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI): “The finding of HPV viral DNA integrated in most cellular genomes of cervical carcinomas supports epidemiologic data linking this agent to cervical cancer however, direct causation has not been demonstrated.”
On October 19, 2010 S.A.N.E. Vax submitted a formal letter to Jack Stapleton, M.D., Chair Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding Valid endpoint and reliable HPV genotyping for expanded use proposal of Gardasil® vaccine stating… “In the interest of promoting and protecting the public health, S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. respectfully requests that expanded use for Gardasil® as an anal cancer preventive vaccine be delayed, until such time as the efficacy of the vaccine is properly evaluated using the true endpoint for anal cancer prevention, and a reliable HPV genotyping method for detection of type-specific HPV infections.”
The Gardasil vaccine campaign on unsuspecting and ill-informed medical consumers must be halted until an independent study demonstrates the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. As it stands, this is a classic case of pharma/government vs. medical consumers with monumental social/political implications. The HPV vaccine travesty will go down in history as an example of unethical experimental medical procedures harming the health and well being of the very people the vaccines were supposedly designed to protect.
For more information, visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
Monday, December 13, 2010
HPV Vaccine (Gardasil and Cervarix) VAERS Reports - Injury Statistics Increasing at Rapid Rate
The injury and death related to the HPV Vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix continue to rise. How many will it take before the FDA takes action?
Dec 13, 2010 – One week ago SANE Vax researcher, Janny Stokvis of the Netherlands reported the latest VAERS data on deaths and injury from the HPV vaccines.
Those numbers stood at:
20,575 adverse reactions
352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination
89 reported deaths (plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) now missing from VAERS)
As of December 13, 2010 new reports state:
20,915 adverse injuries - an increase of 340 adverse events in one week.
370 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination (18 new cases submitted in a week, three are related to Cervarix)
Reported deaths remain the same - 89 reported deaths (plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) now missing from VAERS)
On December 13, 2010 Medpage Today released this article:
Many Fail to Finish HPV Vaccine Series as Recommended (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/23873)
Researchers reported that many girls and young women may not be completing all three doses of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in a timely fashion.
SANE Vax believes that it is high time to take into consideration that many girls are not completing the series because of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccines.
For more information, visit http://sanevax.org/.
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THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Dec 13, 2010 – One week ago SANE Vax researcher, Janny Stokvis of the Netherlands reported the latest VAERS data on deaths and injury from the HPV vaccines.
Those numbers stood at:
20,575 adverse reactions
352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination
89 reported deaths (plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) now missing from VAERS)
As of December 13, 2010 new reports state:
20,915 adverse injuries - an increase of 340 adverse events in one week.
370 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination (18 new cases submitted in a week, three are related to Cervarix)
Reported deaths remain the same - 89 reported deaths (plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) now missing from VAERS)
On December 13, 2010 Medpage Today released this article:
Many Fail to Finish HPV Vaccine Series as Recommended (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/23873)
Researchers reported that many girls and young women may not be completing all three doses of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in a timely fashion.
SANE Vax believes that it is high time to take into consideration that many girls are not completing the series because of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccines.
For more information, visit http://sanevax.org/.
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THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Tasmanian girls urged to get immunized against cervical cancer: Where is the common sense?
What criteria do governments use to decide whether the benefits of a vaccine outweigh the risks? On what basis do they judge whether a vaccine should be 'recommended' or 'mandated?" Does common sense enter the equation?
Dec 13, 2010 – Friday, 10 December 2010, Dr. Roscoe Taylor, Director of Public Health, issued a press release urging “all teenage girls in Tasmania to be vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Viirus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer.”
The SaneVax Team believes this strategy makes no sense at all.
Let’s ignore the fact no one will know if HPV vaccines actually prevent cervical cancer for at least ten years.
Let’s ignore the fact no one knows when booster shots will be required.
Let’s ignore the fact cervical cancer is not a contagious disease.
Let’s ignore the fact almost 90%, of HPV infections clear on their own with no medical intervention and no symptoms.
Let’s ignore the fact good gynecological care has substantially reduced the risk of cervical cancer in developed countries, and continues to do so.
Let’s even ignore the fact HPV vaccination does not eliminate the need for good gynecological care.
Let’s ignore the fact that every vaccine carries some sort of risk to future health and possibly life.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there are approximately 503,300 people residing in Tasmania. 6.5% of these are teenage girls, or approximately 32,700. The most recent Tasmanian Cancer Registry data show that there were only 21 cases of cervical cancers diagnosed and seven deaths in 2007.
Using a conservative estimate of $300 per series of HPV vaccinations, it will cost $9.8 million to inoculate 32,700 girls in an attempt to save 7 lives that could have been saved with regular visits to the gynecologist and proper follow-up when abnormal cells were detected.
The SaneVax Team wants to know how the Australian government can possibly justify the expenditure of such a vast amount of public money gambling on the fact HPV vaccinations will be effective ten or fifteen years down the road. Research states it will be 20 years before it is known whether the HPV vaccines will have impacted cervical cancer rates. Is it worth gamble when innocent lives may be affected from adverse reactions and/or death?
Sources:
* View Dr. Taylor’s press release here: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=31195
* View info from Australian Bureau of Statistics here:
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/3235.0~ ...
* View Diane Harper’s comments here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027196_cancer_cervical_cancer ...
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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 more information, see http://sanevax.org
Dec 13, 2010 – Friday, 10 December 2010, Dr. Roscoe Taylor, Director of Public Health, issued a press release urging “all teenage girls in Tasmania to be vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Viirus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer.”
The SaneVax Team believes this strategy makes no sense at all.
Let’s ignore the fact no one will know if HPV vaccines actually prevent cervical cancer for at least ten years.
Let’s ignore the fact no one knows when booster shots will be required.
Let’s ignore the fact cervical cancer is not a contagious disease.
Let’s ignore the fact almost 90%, of HPV infections clear on their own with no medical intervention and no symptoms.
Let’s ignore the fact good gynecological care has substantially reduced the risk of cervical cancer in developed countries, and continues to do so.
Let’s even ignore the fact HPV vaccination does not eliminate the need for good gynecological care.
Let’s ignore the fact that every vaccine carries some sort of risk to future health and possibly life.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there are approximately 503,300 people residing in Tasmania. 6.5% of these are teenage girls, or approximately 32,700. The most recent Tasmanian Cancer Registry data show that there were only 21 cases of cervical cancers diagnosed and seven deaths in 2007.
Using a conservative estimate of $300 per series of HPV vaccinations, it will cost $9.8 million to inoculate 32,700 girls in an attempt to save 7 lives that could have been saved with regular visits to the gynecologist and proper follow-up when abnormal cells were detected.
The SaneVax Team wants to know how the Australian government can possibly justify the expenditure of such a vast amount of public money gambling on the fact HPV vaccinations will be effective ten or fifteen years down the road. Research states it will be 20 years before it is known whether the HPV vaccines will have impacted cervical cancer rates. Is it worth gamble when innocent lives may be affected from adverse reactions and/or death?
Sources:
* View Dr. Taylor’s press release here: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=31195
* View info from Australian Bureau of Statistics here:
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/3235.0~ ...
* View Diane Harper’s comments here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027196_cancer_cervical_cancer ...
# # #
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 more information, see http://sanevax.org
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Gardasil Approval: FDA Apparently Does Not Follow Its Own Rules
Did the FDA grant approval for Gardasil the HPV Vaccine even though it didn't meet their criteria?
Dec 10, 2010 – According to FDA rules, in order to obtain ‘fast-track’ approval a new drug or medical treatment, two criteria must be satisfied. The drug/treatment must be for a serious disease and it must fill an unmet medical need. According to the FDA, filling an ‘unmet medical need’ is defined as, “providing a therapy where none exists or providing a therapy which may be potentially superior to existing therapy.”
There is no doubt cervical cancer is a serious disease. However, one has to question how Gardasil met the second criteria of filling an ‘unmet’ medical need. Due to regular cervical cancer screening and appropriate medical follow-up when abnormal cervical cells are detected, cervical cancer rates in the United States have dropped over 74% and continue to decline. This is the case in most developed countries around the world. So, where is the ‘unmet medical need?’
Another problem arises when HPV is purported to be a cause of cervical cancer. Several high-risk genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) have been associated with cervical cancer, but not established as a cause of cancer. Persistent HPV infections occurring from the same genotype, increase the risk of cancer. No one has determined whether or not persistent infections actually cause cancer without other risk factors being present.
The truth is 90% of all HPV infections clear on their own without medical intervention. Of the 10% left, only 5% of these will ever develop into cancerous cells. Cervical cancer takes between 5 and 15 years to develop. 95% of cervical cancer is treatable and curable. Almost all fatalities from cervical cancer can be avoided with good gynecological care. Again, where is the ‘unmet medical need?’
In addition to these two criteria, FDA guidelines say, if there are existing therapies for the disease a proposed drug/treatment is intended for a fast-track drug must show some advantage over available treatment(s), such as:
1. Showing superior effectiveness – Gardasil will not be able to show that for at least 10-15 years.
2. Avoiding serious side effects – there are no serious side effects to regular screening and appropriate follow-up.
3. Improving the diagnosis of a serious disease where early diagnosis results in an improved outcome – not applicable to HPV vaccines.
4. Decreasing a clinically significant toxicity of an accepted treatment – again, not applicable to HPV vaccines.
Despite the fact that the only criteria Gardasil could have possibly met was the intent to combat a serious disease, the FDA granted fast-track approval for the product in June of 2006.
Now, American medical consumers have seen the post-HPV vaccination adverse events reports approaching 21,000 and there are 89 families who have ‘one less’ child. Perhaps, the FDA needs to study the rules.
Sources:
View http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceReg ... for more information on FDA fast-track approval guidelines.
View http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/article.aspx?id=37036 for more information on HPV clearing on its own.
View http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/cervicalcancer/a/hpvcer ... for more information on the HPV connection to cervical cancer.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
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THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Dec 10, 2010 – According to FDA rules, in order to obtain ‘fast-track’ approval a new drug or medical treatment, two criteria must be satisfied. The drug/treatment must be for a serious disease and it must fill an unmet medical need. According to the FDA, filling an ‘unmet medical need’ is defined as, “providing a therapy where none exists or providing a therapy which may be potentially superior to existing therapy.”
There is no doubt cervical cancer is a serious disease. However, one has to question how Gardasil met the second criteria of filling an ‘unmet’ medical need. Due to regular cervical cancer screening and appropriate medical follow-up when abnormal cervical cells are detected, cervical cancer rates in the United States have dropped over 74% and continue to decline. This is the case in most developed countries around the world. So, where is the ‘unmet medical need?’
Another problem arises when HPV is purported to be a cause of cervical cancer. Several high-risk genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) have been associated with cervical cancer, but not established as a cause of cancer. Persistent HPV infections occurring from the same genotype, increase the risk of cancer. No one has determined whether or not persistent infections actually cause cancer without other risk factors being present.
The truth is 90% of all HPV infections clear on their own without medical intervention. Of the 10% left, only 5% of these will ever develop into cancerous cells. Cervical cancer takes between 5 and 15 years to develop. 95% of cervical cancer is treatable and curable. Almost all fatalities from cervical cancer can be avoided with good gynecological care. Again, where is the ‘unmet medical need?’
In addition to these two criteria, FDA guidelines say, if there are existing therapies for the disease a proposed drug/treatment is intended for a fast-track drug must show some advantage over available treatment(s), such as:
1. Showing superior effectiveness – Gardasil will not be able to show that for at least 10-15 years.
2. Avoiding serious side effects – there are no serious side effects to regular screening and appropriate follow-up.
3. Improving the diagnosis of a serious disease where early diagnosis results in an improved outcome – not applicable to HPV vaccines.
4. Decreasing a clinically significant toxicity of an accepted treatment – again, not applicable to HPV vaccines.
Despite the fact that the only criteria Gardasil could have possibly met was the intent to combat a serious disease, the FDA granted fast-track approval for the product in June of 2006.
Now, American medical consumers have seen the post-HPV vaccination adverse events reports approaching 21,000 and there are 89 families who have ‘one less’ child. Perhaps, the FDA needs to study the rules.
Sources:
View http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceReg ... for more information on FDA fast-track approval guidelines.
View http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/article.aspx?id=37036 for more information on HPV clearing on its own.
View http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/cervicalcancer/a/hpvcer ... for more information on the HPV connection to cervical cancer.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
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THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Gardasil’s Trail of Deception
Doe's Gardasil’s Trail of Deception Hides the True Scope of Death and Injuries?
While the number of deaths and serious adverse events reported due to Merck's controversial Gardasil vaccine continues to grow alarmingly, the true number of people who have been killed or injured by the deadly vaccine is likely far higher. The truth about Gardasil has been deliberately hidden through a trail of deception, cover-ups, ignorance and under-reporting that dates back to the very inception of the vaccine.
The first key deception occurred during Gardasil trials. Instead of using a saline solution as the placebo, Merck used the vaccine's carrier agent minus only the HPV virus components. In addition to sodium chloride and water normally found in a saline solution placebo, the placebo Merck chose also contained dangerous aluminum along with polysorbate 80 and sodium borate.
Although polysorbate 80 is used as a food additive to increase the water solubility of flavoring oils, injection is quite different. According to the polysorbate 80 Material Safety Data Sheet, it may be carcinogenic as well as mutagenic. When injected into prepubescent rats, polysorbate 80 caused abnormal growth of reproductive organs and made the rats sterile. When used intravenously with vitamins, it has been known to cause anaphylactic shock.
An analysis of the actual trial data for Gardasil reveals that a shocking 73.3 percent of the participants who received Gardasil acquired a new medical condition ranging from flu-like symptoms to paralysis. Almost 60% had systemic reactions. Though the “placebo” recipients had similar results, obviously no mere saline solution would have produced even a fraction of such reactions. The results would likely have been even higher if the study had lasted longer than 15 days.
The lack of dangers in the prescribing information furnished to doctors by Merck and the VAERS requirement that only serious and life-threatening events be reported both likely play big roles in the under-reporting of Gardasil reactions. Doctors are reluctant to report deaths and injuries from anything they administered or performed in the first place, and the lack of information and guidelines have insured that they are far less likely to report anywhere near all the adverse reactions from Gardasil.
Other factors which help skew the picture of Gardasil dangers include:
*The rate of deaths and adverse reactions are reported as a percentage of doses distributed, not doses actually administered.
*Gardasil is given in a series of three injections. Thus the number of adverse reactions per number of patients is triple the adverse events per injection.
*Many parents are not aware of the definition of adverse event or that they can file their own VAERS report.
Disturbingly, already reported deaths and reactions may be being hidden or altered to be attributed to other causes. When SANEVAX looked at the latest reported VAERS totals, they discovered that five previous death cases are now inexplicably missing.
Another Gardasil danger which has also been largely hidden and ignored is the danger presented to young women who have already been infected with HPV. Despite the fact that girls (and boys) can be exposed to HPV viruses from birth onwards, there is no screening required and not even a recommendation for screening before a young woman reaches the age of 21.
In a paper Merck submitted to the FDA on young women who tested positive for the HPV strains 16 or 18, the facts are alarming. Protection against the HPV virus for young infected women was much worse than if they had not been vaccinated at all. According to the paper, infected women had who were given Gardasil had a 44.6% increased risk of abnormal cervical cell development than did non vaccinated women.
The true magnitude of Gardasil’s harm and dangers could be horrendous. Reports for other vaccines deaths and adverse reactions are estimated to represent no more than 10% of the actual totals. With Gardasil, estimates range as low as only 1%.
If 10% are reporting, there could be as many as 890 deaths and 205,000 adverse events. If only 1% are actually reported, there could be 8,900 deaths and 2,050,000 adverse events.
Behind Gardasil's trail of deception is a very large and mostly hidden trail of tears. Parents and the general public richly deserve to be told the full truth to keep that trail from turning into a raging flood of sorrow and suffering.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/ .
Tony Isaacs, Contributing Author, SaneVax Inc.
Tony Isaacs, is a natural health author, advocate and researcher who hosts The Best Years in Life website http://www.tbyil.com/ for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. Mr. Isaacs is the author of books and articles about natural health, longevity and beating cancer including "Cancer's Natural Enemy" and is working on a major book project due to be published in 2011.
While the number of deaths and serious adverse events reported due to Merck's controversial Gardasil vaccine continues to grow alarmingly, the true number of people who have been killed or injured by the deadly vaccine is likely far higher. The truth about Gardasil has been deliberately hidden through a trail of deception, cover-ups, ignorance and under-reporting that dates back to the very inception of the vaccine.
The first key deception occurred during Gardasil trials. Instead of using a saline solution as the placebo, Merck used the vaccine's carrier agent minus only the HPV virus components. In addition to sodium chloride and water normally found in a saline solution placebo, the placebo Merck chose also contained dangerous aluminum along with polysorbate 80 and sodium borate.
Although polysorbate 80 is used as a food additive to increase the water solubility of flavoring oils, injection is quite different. According to the polysorbate 80 Material Safety Data Sheet, it may be carcinogenic as well as mutagenic. When injected into prepubescent rats, polysorbate 80 caused abnormal growth of reproductive organs and made the rats sterile. When used intravenously with vitamins, it has been known to cause anaphylactic shock.
An analysis of the actual trial data for Gardasil reveals that a shocking 73.3 percent of the participants who received Gardasil acquired a new medical condition ranging from flu-like symptoms to paralysis. Almost 60% had systemic reactions. Though the “placebo” recipients had similar results, obviously no mere saline solution would have produced even a fraction of such reactions. The results would likely have been even higher if the study had lasted longer than 15 days.
The lack of dangers in the prescribing information furnished to doctors by Merck and the VAERS requirement that only serious and life-threatening events be reported both likely play big roles in the under-reporting of Gardasil reactions. Doctors are reluctant to report deaths and injuries from anything they administered or performed in the first place, and the lack of information and guidelines have insured that they are far less likely to report anywhere near all the adverse reactions from Gardasil.
Other factors which help skew the picture of Gardasil dangers include:
*The rate of deaths and adverse reactions are reported as a percentage of doses distributed, not doses actually administered.
*Gardasil is given in a series of three injections. Thus the number of adverse reactions per number of patients is triple the adverse events per injection.
*Many parents are not aware of the definition of adverse event or that they can file their own VAERS report.
Disturbingly, already reported deaths and reactions may be being hidden or altered to be attributed to other causes. When SANEVAX looked at the latest reported VAERS totals, they discovered that five previous death cases are now inexplicably missing.
Another Gardasil danger which has also been largely hidden and ignored is the danger presented to young women who have already been infected with HPV. Despite the fact that girls (and boys) can be exposed to HPV viruses from birth onwards, there is no screening required and not even a recommendation for screening before a young woman reaches the age of 21.
In a paper Merck submitted to the FDA on young women who tested positive for the HPV strains 16 or 18, the facts are alarming. Protection against the HPV virus for young infected women was much worse than if they had not been vaccinated at all. According to the paper, infected women had who were given Gardasil had a 44.6% increased risk of abnormal cervical cell development than did non vaccinated women.
The true magnitude of Gardasil’s harm and dangers could be horrendous. Reports for other vaccines deaths and adverse reactions are estimated to represent no more than 10% of the actual totals. With Gardasil, estimates range as low as only 1%.
If 10% are reporting, there could be as many as 890 deaths and 205,000 adverse events. If only 1% are actually reported, there could be 8,900 deaths and 2,050,000 adverse events.
Behind Gardasil's trail of deception is a very large and mostly hidden trail of tears. Parents and the general public richly deserve to be told the full truth to keep that trail from turning into a raging flood of sorrow and suffering.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/ .
Tony Isaacs, Contributing Author, SaneVax Inc.
Tony Isaacs, is a natural health author, advocate and researcher who hosts The Best Years in Life website http://www.tbyil.com/ for baby boomers and others wishing to avoid prescription drugs and mainstream managed illness and live longer, healthier and happier lives naturally. Mr. Isaacs is the author of books and articles about natural health, longevity and beating cancer including "Cancer's Natural Enemy" and is working on a major book project due to be published in 2011.
Monday, December 6, 2010
To Expand or Not Expand–That's the Question....Will FDA Approve Merck’s 4th Request to Expand Gardasil?
Research submitted to the Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research (CBER) on Monday October 25, 2010 related to the adverse effects of the HPV Vaccines. Will the FDA respond?
Dec 06, 2010 – Leslie Carol Botha and Cynthia Ann Janak prepared an extensive power point for the FDA on HPV Vaccines Mechanisms of Action in Women – Endocrine Influence, HPV – Pre Testing and Immune System Involvement. The document was submitted to the Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research (CBER) on Monday October 25, 2010.
The information included in the presentation has implications not only for female adolescent health – but for women ages 26 to 45 and older who may be the next age group for HPV vaccination approval.
December 3, 2010 – HPV Vaccine VAERS reports (women ages 9 to 26)
20,575 adverse reactions
352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination.
89 reported deaths – plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA, missing from VAERS, uncovered via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Judicial Watch
Botha and Janak’s intent is to provide research and data to support the hypothesis that the HPV vaccines may even be more dangerous in an older age group with hope of preventing FDA approval of Merck’s 4th request to expand Gardasil use to older women.
The FDA declined to make a comment about the research presented - nor did they choose to listen to a verbal presentation – nor did they attempt to answer any questions raised by the research presented. Instead Botha and Janak were told via email: The CBER team thanks you for the additional information since the last listening session. At this point, they do not want to have any additional listening sessions, and instead will answer in writing any questions you may have.
Botha and Janak did respond with one additional question:
With the additional information that was presented will the CBER review team be looking at the possibility of suspending the license of the HPV vaccines pending further safety review?
Although acknowledgment was received that the question would be forwarded to CBER, a response has yet to be received.
HPV Vaccine Mechanisms of Action in Women has been converted to a 63 page PDF file (may take some time to download) filled with research and documentation on issues not considered during HPV vaccine clinical trials – nor in any other vaccine or medical trial for that matter.
With all of the studies coming out about the relevance the endocrine system has to women’s health – it is time that the menstrual cycle be given its due as the regulating system in a woman’s body.
Botha and Janak raised the following issues/questions in the HPV Mechanisms of Action Presentation: (Research, data, documentation and corresponding links are documented in the PDF file.)
To read the full story, go to http://sanevax.org/blog/?p=1286.
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THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Dec 06, 2010 – Leslie Carol Botha and Cynthia Ann Janak prepared an extensive power point for the FDA on HPV Vaccines Mechanisms of Action in Women – Endocrine Influence, HPV – Pre Testing and Immune System Involvement. The document was submitted to the Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research (CBER) on Monday October 25, 2010.
The information included in the presentation has implications not only for female adolescent health – but for women ages 26 to 45 and older who may be the next age group for HPV vaccination approval.
December 3, 2010 – HPV Vaccine VAERS reports (women ages 9 to 26)
20,575 adverse reactions
352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination.
89 reported deaths – plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA, missing from VAERS, uncovered via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Judicial Watch
Botha and Janak’s intent is to provide research and data to support the hypothesis that the HPV vaccines may even be more dangerous in an older age group with hope of preventing FDA approval of Merck’s 4th request to expand Gardasil use to older women.
The FDA declined to make a comment about the research presented - nor did they choose to listen to a verbal presentation – nor did they attempt to answer any questions raised by the research presented. Instead Botha and Janak were told via email: The CBER team thanks you for the additional information since the last listening session. At this point, they do not want to have any additional listening sessions, and instead will answer in writing any questions you may have.
Botha and Janak did respond with one additional question:
With the additional information that was presented will the CBER review team be looking at the possibility of suspending the license of the HPV vaccines pending further safety review?
Although acknowledgment was received that the question would be forwarded to CBER, a response has yet to be received.
HPV Vaccine Mechanisms of Action in Women has been converted to a 63 page PDF file (may take some time to download) filled with research and documentation on issues not considered during HPV vaccine clinical trials – nor in any other vaccine or medical trial for that matter.
With all of the studies coming out about the relevance the endocrine system has to women’s health – it is time that the menstrual cycle be given its due as the regulating system in a woman’s body.
Botha and Janak raised the following issues/questions in the HPV Mechanisms of Action Presentation: (Research, data, documentation and corresponding links are documented in the PDF file.)
To read the full story, go to http://sanevax.org/blog/?p=1286.
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THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
HPV Vaccine (Gardasil and Cervarix) VAERS Reports - Injury and Death Continue to Climb
The injury and death related to the HPV Vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix continue to rise. How many will it take before the FDA takes action?
The VAERS information is now being updated weekly for the HPV Vaccines. As of November 3, 2010 the reports are as follows:
20,575 adverse reactions
352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination
89 reported deaths (plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are now missing from VAERS)
Case numbers:
# 300741
# 314524
# 321405
# 325151
# 381305
The first four reports are on Judicial Watch.
Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report - June 16, 2009 - http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2009/vaersdeathsALL_20090616.pdf.
The other report is in here
Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 - http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2010/VAERS-052009-to-092010.pdf
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
The VAERS information is now being updated weekly for the HPV Vaccines. As of November 3, 2010 the reports are as follows:
20,575 adverse reactions
352 reports of abnormal pap smears post vaccination
89 reported deaths (plus 5 reports submitted to the FDA obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are now missing from VAERS)
Case numbers:
# 300741
# 314524
# 321405
# 325151
# 381305
The first four reports are on Judicial Watch.
Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report - June 16, 2009 - http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2009/vaersdeathsALL_20090616.pdf.
The other report is in here
Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 - http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2010/VAERS-052009-to-092010.pdf
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
HPV vaccine - subsequent adverse reaction - life now
Many people who experience adverse events after vaccination do not want their story told. They believe it is their problem and they must deal with the consequences. One has to respect their need for privacy. The food pyramid below was created by one of these people. She has experienced severe consequences following HPV vaccination. She wishes to keep her personal life, but still feels compelled to let people know how life has been changed for her and many others.
Her version of the healthy food pyramid says it all.
Go to http://sanevax.org/news/hpv.shtml to view the pyramid.
Her version of the healthy food pyramid says it all.
Go to http://sanevax.org/news/hpv.shtml to view the pyramid.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Turning Cervical Cancer into an Infectious Disease
November 29, 2010. North Hollywood, CA. In February of 2010, an article appeared in J Epidemiol Community Health titled: “Assessing the effectiveness of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination to prevent cervical cancer: perspectives from Germany” blatantly refers to converting cervical cancer from a oncological disease into an infectious disease. The article was written by Professor Martina Doren, with the Clinical Research Center of Women’s Health at Charite´-Universita¨tsmedizin in Berlin.
“For approximately 2 years now, cervical cancer has been “converted” from an oncological disease to an infectious disease, which is said to be preventable by and large by two vaccines licensed in many countries. However, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines differ from existing others, as the former target a condition which only in a minute fraction of infections will lead to serious consequences, but after a long(er) latency period. Furthermore, it should be kept in mind that in clinical trials, the quadrivalent vaccine was tested in fewer than 1200 girls 16 years and younger.”
Sane Vax Inc., wants to know the science behind the conversion.
In all her candor Professor Doren cited data as to what fraction of cervical intraepithelial lesions (CIN) grade 2 or worse and cancer incidence, respectively, are indeed prevented in young girls not infected with any HPV type prior immunisation for periods beyond two years.
“In spring 2006, an analysis of vaccine efficacy against CIN 2+ due to any HPV type among subgroup of girls/women (per protocol population) for all four vaccine-relevant HPV types showed an observed reduction of (only) 16.9% regarding these lesions3 (for a discussion of published efficacy data in Germany, see also Gerhardus et al).” 4
Dr. Doren continues with a concern the SaneVax Team has…that even though human papillomavirus passes through 90% of women’s in a two year time period, the HPV vaccines may be marketed as an ill-founded “magic bullet” just as HRT was pushed on unsuspecting, ill-informed menopausal women.
“Thus, the efficacy of the licensed vaccines to prevent cervical cancer is unknown; in other words, it is unknown whether vaccinations are indeed a “magic bullet,” a term also used recently to re-evaluate menopausal hormone therapy, the benefits of which were not “magic” after all. Perhaps the magic of female nature in this case is that most infections (approximately 90%) are dealt with very effectively and permanently in immunocompetent (young) women. Therefore, girls/women with HPV infections are highly unlikely to develop invasive cervical cancer. This is crucial risk information not transported affirmatively by various parties actively promoting HPV vaccination.6”
In her closing statement, Dr. Doren states: “Thus, we are not able to appraise the contribution of HPV vaccines to decrease the burden of cervical cancer today in Germany.”
Compare Dr. Doren’s timely remarks and concerns to a statement made by Professor Raina MacIntyre, in a November 15, 2005 article titled: Dr. Ian Frazer’s excellent adventure
"As to parental acceptance of vaccinating children against what is essentially a sexually transmitted infection, a lot will depend on how the vaccine is marketed. If it is marketed as a cancer preventing vaccine, there won’t be as much resistance."
So, if parents are wary of vaccinating their children against sexually transmitted infection – and if Cervarix and Gardasil are marketed as “cancer preventing vaccines,” then, acceptance and uptake numbers might become more impressive. It appears to the SaneVax Team the magic bullet in this case is the conversion of cervical cancer into a sexually transmitted disease. It provided the perfect marketing strategy.
Too bad the science evidence does not back up the conversion.
Obviously, the public is seeing through the “magic bullet” concept. On November 23, 2010, the American Medical News released an article with reference to the University of Maryland study recommending that ‘counseling’ helps women start and complete the HPV regimen. According to data released from the University of Maryland Medical Center, only 30% who begin the three-dose HPV vaccine series actually complete it. Between August 2006 and August 2010, 9,658 outpatient females ages 9 to 26 were surveyed. The data showed that only 27.3% of the women received at least one dose of the HPV vaccine.
“Of those individuals, 39.1% got only a single dose and 30.1% received two doses. The remaining 30.8% completed the three-dose series.
The SaneVax Team objects to additional pressure placed on adolescents for administration of a potentially dangerous vaccine whose safety and efficacy has not been established outside of a clinical trial on ‘healthy adolescent girls,” for strains of a virus not yet proven to cause cervical cancer.
Globally, researchers, doctors, educators, politicians and the public have seen through the HPV magic bullet marketing campaign. It is time for the pharmaceutical companies and the government to acknowledge the flaws in the scientific development of these vaccines and remove them from the market until their safety and efficacy has been proven and a causal relationship between HPV and cervical cancer has been firmly established.
“For approximately 2 years now, cervical cancer has been “converted” from an oncological disease to an infectious disease, which is said to be preventable by and large by two vaccines licensed in many countries. However, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines differ from existing others, as the former target a condition which only in a minute fraction of infections will lead to serious consequences, but after a long(er) latency period. Furthermore, it should be kept in mind that in clinical trials, the quadrivalent vaccine was tested in fewer than 1200 girls 16 years and younger.”
Sane Vax Inc., wants to know the science behind the conversion.
In all her candor Professor Doren cited data as to what fraction of cervical intraepithelial lesions (CIN) grade 2 or worse and cancer incidence, respectively, are indeed prevented in young girls not infected with any HPV type prior immunisation for periods beyond two years.
“In spring 2006, an analysis of vaccine efficacy against CIN 2+ due to any HPV type among subgroup of girls/women (per protocol population) for all four vaccine-relevant HPV types showed an observed reduction of (only) 16.9% regarding these lesions3 (for a discussion of published efficacy data in Germany, see also Gerhardus et al).” 4
Dr. Doren continues with a concern the SaneVax Team has…that even though human papillomavirus passes through 90% of women’s in a two year time period, the HPV vaccines may be marketed as an ill-founded “magic bullet” just as HRT was pushed on unsuspecting, ill-informed menopausal women.
“Thus, the efficacy of the licensed vaccines to prevent cervical cancer is unknown; in other words, it is unknown whether vaccinations are indeed a “magic bullet,” a term also used recently to re-evaluate menopausal hormone therapy, the benefits of which were not “magic” after all. Perhaps the magic of female nature in this case is that most infections (approximately 90%) are dealt with very effectively and permanently in immunocompetent (young) women. Therefore, girls/women with HPV infections are highly unlikely to develop invasive cervical cancer. This is crucial risk information not transported affirmatively by various parties actively promoting HPV vaccination.6”
In her closing statement, Dr. Doren states: “Thus, we are not able to appraise the contribution of HPV vaccines to decrease the burden of cervical cancer today in Germany.”
Compare Dr. Doren’s timely remarks and concerns to a statement made by Professor Raina MacIntyre, in a November 15, 2005 article titled: Dr. Ian Frazer’s excellent adventure
"As to parental acceptance of vaccinating children against what is essentially a sexually transmitted infection, a lot will depend on how the vaccine is marketed. If it is marketed as a cancer preventing vaccine, there won’t be as much resistance."
So, if parents are wary of vaccinating their children against sexually transmitted infection – and if Cervarix and Gardasil are marketed as “cancer preventing vaccines,” then, acceptance and uptake numbers might become more impressive. It appears to the SaneVax Team the magic bullet in this case is the conversion of cervical cancer into a sexually transmitted disease. It provided the perfect marketing strategy.
Too bad the science evidence does not back up the conversion.
Obviously, the public is seeing through the “magic bullet” concept. On November 23, 2010, the American Medical News released an article with reference to the University of Maryland study recommending that ‘counseling’ helps women start and complete the HPV regimen. According to data released from the University of Maryland Medical Center, only 30% who begin the three-dose HPV vaccine series actually complete it. Between August 2006 and August 2010, 9,658 outpatient females ages 9 to 26 were surveyed. The data showed that only 27.3% of the women received at least one dose of the HPV vaccine.
“Of those individuals, 39.1% got only a single dose and 30.1% received two doses. The remaining 30.8% completed the three-dose series.
The SaneVax Team objects to additional pressure placed on adolescents for administration of a potentially dangerous vaccine whose safety and efficacy has not been established outside of a clinical trial on ‘healthy adolescent girls,” for strains of a virus not yet proven to cause cervical cancer.
Globally, researchers, doctors, educators, politicians and the public have seen through the HPV magic bullet marketing campaign. It is time for the pharmaceutical companies and the government to acknowledge the flaws in the scientific development of these vaccines and remove them from the market until their safety and efficacy has been proven and a causal relationship between HPV and cervical cancer has been firmly established.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
SaneVax Team asks Senator Grassley to expand ethics investigation
22 October 2010, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa launched an ethics investigation into allegations of National Cancer Institute employees extensive travel with the expenses for multiple international trips being donated by private corporations. The SaneVax Team sent the following letter to Senator Grassley to express our support for his efforts to demand ethical conduct within government agencies:
Dear Senator Grassley:
The SaneVax Team read your October 22, 2010 letter to Dr. Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with great interest. We would like to congratulate you on your efforts to examine the ethical questions raised by NCI employees accepting extensive travel sponsored by private companies. NCI is the nation’s top institute in cancer science. Publications and opinions from its intramural scientists have great impact on national health care policies affecting American consumers. Because their influence carries so much weight in the medical community, their reputation should be beyond reproach. We appreciate your office initiating this investigation into the ethics of those NCI employees who are apparently accepting excessive travel funds from private companies.
Along the same line, the SaneVax Team would like to bring to your attention another even more disturbing issue involving two senior NCI scientists who knowingly promote an unreliable human papillomavirus (HPV) test for patient care, and the development and monitoring of genotype-specific HPV vaccines in promoting a virology-based business agenda.
In a recently published financial disclosure[1] Dr. Mark Schiffman, a NCI senior investigator, stated that he “works with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He is the medical monitor of the independent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine trial of Cervarix being conducted by the NCI, for which he does not receive compensation. GlaxoSmithKline pays costs related to regulatory use of the data. He also works on the development of HPV tests for low-resource public health settings and is collaborating with Qiagen on this effort. Qiagen is providing free test supplies for this research effort but has no role in the evaluation of performance.”
In this disclosure, Dr. Schiffman did not mention that a similar Qiagen test has also been used in the U.S. as the only FDA-approved HPV test for American women for the past 20 years. Digene Corporation with its HC2 HPV test kit was sold to Qiagen, a Dutch company for $1.6 billion in 2007[2], with a 5-times value appreciation over less than 5 years.
During the past 20 years, Dr. Mark Schiffman and Dr. Philip Castle, the two senior NCI officials promoting the virology-based agenda, have co-authored numerous articles with Dr. A. Lorincz, the chief scientist employed by Digene Corporation[3] as scientific literature endorsing the Digene HC2 test. A PubMed search revealed that Dr. Schiffman and Dr. Lorincz coauthored 34 such articles from 1988 to 2005[4], and that Dr. Castle and Dr. Lorincz coauthored 15 similar articles from 2001 to 2007[5]. The NCI endorsement has undoubtedly boosted the sales value of Digene Corporation.
However, the Digene HC2 HPV test is not a reliable HPV genotyping test, as well known in the NCI. A public document titled “HPV genotyping”, identified as Solicitation Number: NCI-100143-MM, https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form id=da396b97ad6eb7ec4f7d511f85d9e325&tab=core&_cview=0, reveals the NCI acknowledges that a reliable genotyping of HPV is a method based on “PCR system with short target sequences,” a methodology the NCI and the FDA do not encourage companies to develop in this country. They prefer to pay $13.5 million to contract a foreign laboratory to test 230 biopsy samples, an exorbitant amount of our tax money for a small number of tests.
The obvious conclusion is that these two NCI scientists have been promoting a test kit which the NCI knows is not as reliable as “a PCR system with short target sequences” for patient care. The NCI scientists responsible for the HPV project have apparently maintained a double standard, a reliable HPV test for good science and another unreliable HPV test for patient care. The unreliable Digene HC2 HPV test has sent numerous American women to harmful cervical biopsies, 95% of which are unnecessary, at a great cost to individuals and society.[6]
We believe that the NCI-promoted virology-based program, which depends on massive HPV vaccination of young American girls, HPV screening and colposcopic biopsies, to replace the traditional Papanicolaou test for cervical cancer prevention[7] is highly speculative for the following reasons:
The currently marketed HPV vaccines lack proven efficacy in cervical cancer prevention and are associated with potentially serious side effects.
They can only protect against a fraction of high-risk HPV genotypes, provided there is no prior vaccine-related HPV infection.
Cervical cancer is not a contagious disease.
There is no epidemic of cervical cancer in the United States.
The perceived cervical cancer crisis in the United States is obviously man-made news.
Cervical cancer can be prevented with good gynecological care. This is a proven fact.
Progression from persistent HPV infection to cervical cancer is a complicated pathological process which is not well understood, even among scientists.
Clinical trials for efficacy of HPV vaccines used the wrong endpoint to prove their value to medical consumers.
Reliable HPV genotyping methods were not used in the development of HPV vaccines.
Reliable HPV genotyping methods are not currently available to American medical practitioners, or consumers for post-marketing monitoring.
At least two National Cancer Institute employees have co-authored promotional articles with a senior employee of a private company to promote an unproven virology-based cervical cancer prevention program to the American public while knowing the device being promoted is unreliable.
The NCI virology-based program is apparently being advanced by individuals with a personal agenda, rather than any interest in national health.
Therefore, the SaneVax Team believes medically and scientifically the currently marketed HPV vaccines’ benefits do not justify the costs and the potential side effects for medical consumers in the United States.
The SaneVax Team has expressed our concerns to the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg and the NCI director, Dr. Harold Varmus, respectively [see attached letters in references #8 and #9]. We have not received a response from either of these two government agencies.
We respectfully request that the ethics investigation of your Senate Committee extend to examine the appropriateness of the two senior NCI officials named above and their efforts to promote an HPV test kit the NCI knows to be not a reliable genotyping method and the circumstances surrounding the FDA approval of two currently approved HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix.
I am looking forward to receiving your response to this request on behalf of American medical consumers.
Yours respectfully,
Norma Erickson, President
S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc.
154 Cecil Drive
Troy MT 59935
Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors, S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc.
Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations
Janny Stokvis, Vice President of Research
Rosemary Mathis, Vice President, Victim Support
Freda Birrell, Secretary
Linda Thompson, Treasurer
References:
1.Schiffman M, Wentzensen N. From human papillomavirus to cervical cancer. In Reply to a Letter to the Editor. Obstet Gynecol 2010;116:1221-2.
2.Qiagen bought Digene-SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) News attached.
3.Lorincz and Digene-News report attached.
4.Lorincz Schiffman coauthored, attached PubMed search.
5.Lorincz Castle coauthored, attached PubMed Search.
6.Stout NK, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Ortendahl JD, Goldie SJ. Trade-offs in cervical cancer prevention: balancing benefits and risks. Arch Intern Med 2008;168:1881-9.
7.Schiffman M, Wentzensen N. From human papillomavirus to cervical cancer. Obstet Gynecol 2010;116:177-85.
8.Sane Vax Inc. Letter requests FDA Commissioner to rescind Gardasil.
9.Sane Vax Inc. Letter urges NCI and FDA to establish reliable HPV genotyping for better patient care.
(Note: original attachments available on request. Please email admin@sanevax.org to obtain copies.)
Visit the SANEVAX site at http://sanevax.org/ and read the entire letter at http://sanevax.org/blog/?p=1227,
Dear Senator Grassley:
The SaneVax Team read your October 22, 2010 letter to Dr. Harold E. Varmus, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with great interest. We would like to congratulate you on your efforts to examine the ethical questions raised by NCI employees accepting extensive travel sponsored by private companies. NCI is the nation’s top institute in cancer science. Publications and opinions from its intramural scientists have great impact on national health care policies affecting American consumers. Because their influence carries so much weight in the medical community, their reputation should be beyond reproach. We appreciate your office initiating this investigation into the ethics of those NCI employees who are apparently accepting excessive travel funds from private companies.
Along the same line, the SaneVax Team would like to bring to your attention another even more disturbing issue involving two senior NCI scientists who knowingly promote an unreliable human papillomavirus (HPV) test for patient care, and the development and monitoring of genotype-specific HPV vaccines in promoting a virology-based business agenda.
In a recently published financial disclosure[1] Dr. Mark Schiffman, a NCI senior investigator, stated that he “works with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He is the medical monitor of the independent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine trial of Cervarix being conducted by the NCI, for which he does not receive compensation. GlaxoSmithKline pays costs related to regulatory use of the data. He also works on the development of HPV tests for low-resource public health settings and is collaborating with Qiagen on this effort. Qiagen is providing free test supplies for this research effort but has no role in the evaluation of performance.”
In this disclosure, Dr. Schiffman did not mention that a similar Qiagen test has also been used in the U.S. as the only FDA-approved HPV test for American women for the past 20 years. Digene Corporation with its HC2 HPV test kit was sold to Qiagen, a Dutch company for $1.6 billion in 2007[2], with a 5-times value appreciation over less than 5 years.
During the past 20 years, Dr. Mark Schiffman and Dr. Philip Castle, the two senior NCI officials promoting the virology-based agenda, have co-authored numerous articles with Dr. A. Lorincz, the chief scientist employed by Digene Corporation[3] as scientific literature endorsing the Digene HC2 test. A PubMed search revealed that Dr. Schiffman and Dr. Lorincz coauthored 34 such articles from 1988 to 2005[4], and that Dr. Castle and Dr. Lorincz coauthored 15 similar articles from 2001 to 2007[5]. The NCI endorsement has undoubtedly boosted the sales value of Digene Corporation.
However, the Digene HC2 HPV test is not a reliable HPV genotyping test, as well known in the NCI. A public document titled “HPV genotyping”, identified as Solicitation Number: NCI-100143-MM, https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form id=da396b97ad6eb7ec4f7d511f85d9e325&tab=core&_cview=0, reveals the NCI acknowledges that a reliable genotyping of HPV is a method based on “PCR system with short target sequences,” a methodology the NCI and the FDA do not encourage companies to develop in this country. They prefer to pay $13.5 million to contract a foreign laboratory to test 230 biopsy samples, an exorbitant amount of our tax money for a small number of tests.
The obvious conclusion is that these two NCI scientists have been promoting a test kit which the NCI knows is not as reliable as “a PCR system with short target sequences” for patient care. The NCI scientists responsible for the HPV project have apparently maintained a double standard, a reliable HPV test for good science and another unreliable HPV test for patient care. The unreliable Digene HC2 HPV test has sent numerous American women to harmful cervical biopsies, 95% of which are unnecessary, at a great cost to individuals and society.[6]
We believe that the NCI-promoted virology-based program, which depends on massive HPV vaccination of young American girls, HPV screening and colposcopic biopsies, to replace the traditional Papanicolaou test for cervical cancer prevention[7] is highly speculative for the following reasons:
The currently marketed HPV vaccines lack proven efficacy in cervical cancer prevention and are associated with potentially serious side effects.
They can only protect against a fraction of high-risk HPV genotypes, provided there is no prior vaccine-related HPV infection.
Cervical cancer is not a contagious disease.
There is no epidemic of cervical cancer in the United States.
The perceived cervical cancer crisis in the United States is obviously man-made news.
Cervical cancer can be prevented with good gynecological care. This is a proven fact.
Progression from persistent HPV infection to cervical cancer is a complicated pathological process which is not well understood, even among scientists.
Clinical trials for efficacy of HPV vaccines used the wrong endpoint to prove their value to medical consumers.
Reliable HPV genotyping methods were not used in the development of HPV vaccines.
Reliable HPV genotyping methods are not currently available to American medical practitioners, or consumers for post-marketing monitoring.
At least two National Cancer Institute employees have co-authored promotional articles with a senior employee of a private company to promote an unproven virology-based cervical cancer prevention program to the American public while knowing the device being promoted is unreliable.
The NCI virology-based program is apparently being advanced by individuals with a personal agenda, rather than any interest in national health.
Therefore, the SaneVax Team believes medically and scientifically the currently marketed HPV vaccines’ benefits do not justify the costs and the potential side effects for medical consumers in the United States.
The SaneVax Team has expressed our concerns to the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg and the NCI director, Dr. Harold Varmus, respectively [see attached letters in references #8 and #9]. We have not received a response from either of these two government agencies.
We respectfully request that the ethics investigation of your Senate Committee extend to examine the appropriateness of the two senior NCI officials named above and their efforts to promote an HPV test kit the NCI knows to be not a reliable genotyping method and the circumstances surrounding the FDA approval of two currently approved HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix.
I am looking forward to receiving your response to this request on behalf of American medical consumers.
Yours respectfully,
Norma Erickson, President
S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc.
154 Cecil Drive
Troy MT 59935
Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors, S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc.
Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations
Janny Stokvis, Vice President of Research
Rosemary Mathis, Vice President, Victim Support
Freda Birrell, Secretary
Linda Thompson, Treasurer
References:
1.Schiffman M, Wentzensen N. From human papillomavirus to cervical cancer. In Reply to a Letter to the Editor. Obstet Gynecol 2010;116:1221-2.
2.Qiagen bought Digene-SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) News attached.
3.Lorincz and Digene-News report attached.
4.Lorincz Schiffman coauthored, attached PubMed search.
5.Lorincz Castle coauthored, attached PubMed Search.
6.Stout NK, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Ortendahl JD, Goldie SJ. Trade-offs in cervical cancer prevention: balancing benefits and risks. Arch Intern Med 2008;168:1881-9.
7.Schiffman M, Wentzensen N. From human papillomavirus to cervical cancer. Obstet Gynecol 2010;116:177-85.
8.Sane Vax Inc. Letter requests FDA Commissioner to rescind Gardasil.
9.Sane Vax Inc. Letter urges NCI and FDA to establish reliable HPV genotyping for better patient care.
(Note: original attachments available on request. Please email admin@sanevax.org to obtain copies.)
Visit the SANEVAX site at http://sanevax.org/ and read the entire letter at http://sanevax.org/blog/?p=1227,
Friday, November 26, 2010
Vaccine Awareness Group Sponsors Special Performance of ‘The Nutcracker’
By: Norma Erickson
25 November 2010
Virginia Young’s family has experienced more than 30 adverse reactions to various vaccines. At one point in time, these reactions were so pervasive they began to wonder whether their home was a toxic environment and responsible for all of the illnesses they were experiencing.
It was not until one of these reactions happened immediately upon vaccination they put two and two together. Virginia, who has a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science and a Master’s in Kinesiology, and her husband, Clayton, a medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, began to really examine their history. They discovered almost every adverse event they had experienced coincided with a vaccination. They continued to research and discovered they were far from being alone in the vaccine-injury department. Many others had made excuses for the new medical conditions that appeared shortly after vaccinations. Many others wondered why they were suddenly not feeling normal after vaccinations.
In response to their discoveries, this family has made it a tradition to ‘dance for those who can’t’ in a local production of The Nutcracker each holiday season. 2010 marks the 24th anniversary for the Woodlands Dance Company’s performances. This year will be the 9th year that Virginia and her family have sponsored and/or danced in The Nutcracker as their personal tribute to vaccine-victims around the world.
Performances will be held in the Nancy Bock Auditorium in Woodlands Texas, on December 4th and 5th. Shows begin at 2:00 and 6:30 p.m. with proceeds being donated to charity.
Each photograph that decorates the Christmas tree is the victim of an adverse event following vaccination. This year, many of the victims represent injuries or fatalities that occurred after vaccination with Gardasil. If you live in the Houston area, make one of these performances of ‘The Nutcracker’ part of your holiday activities. You will not regret it.
(Note from SaneVax: If you have experienced an adverse reaction after vaccination and would like your story told please contact us at admin@sanevax.org. We will be happy to help get your story out. Vaccine injuries will not stop until we find out why they happen. This will not be done until medical consumers demand it. Medical consumers need to be made aware of the true nature of vaccine injuries and their cost to families and society.)
25 November 2010
Virginia Young’s family has experienced more than 30 adverse reactions to various vaccines. At one point in time, these reactions were so pervasive they began to wonder whether their home was a toxic environment and responsible for all of the illnesses they were experiencing.
It was not until one of these reactions happened immediately upon vaccination they put two and two together. Virginia, who has a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science and a Master’s in Kinesiology, and her husband, Clayton, a medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, began to really examine their history. They discovered almost every adverse event they had experienced coincided with a vaccination. They continued to research and discovered they were far from being alone in the vaccine-injury department. Many others had made excuses for the new medical conditions that appeared shortly after vaccinations. Many others wondered why they were suddenly not feeling normal after vaccinations.
In response to their discoveries, this family has made it a tradition to ‘dance for those who can’t’ in a local production of The Nutcracker each holiday season. 2010 marks the 24th anniversary for the Woodlands Dance Company’s performances. This year will be the 9th year that Virginia and her family have sponsored and/or danced in The Nutcracker as their personal tribute to vaccine-victims around the world.
Performances will be held in the Nancy Bock Auditorium in Woodlands Texas, on December 4th and 5th. Shows begin at 2:00 and 6:30 p.m. with proceeds being donated to charity.
Each photograph that decorates the Christmas tree is the victim of an adverse event following vaccination. This year, many of the victims represent injuries or fatalities that occurred after vaccination with Gardasil. If you live in the Houston area, make one of these performances of ‘The Nutcracker’ part of your holiday activities. You will not regret it.
(Note from SaneVax: If you have experienced an adverse reaction after vaccination and would like your story told please contact us at admin@sanevax.org. We will be happy to help get your story out. Vaccine injuries will not stop until we find out why they happen. This will not be done until medical consumers demand it. Medical consumers need to be made aware of the true nature of vaccine injuries and their cost to families and society.)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
What is Wrong with the Gardasil Girls? Bridget's Story - SANE VAX Victim of the Week Series
One frequently experiences a single event that alters their life forever. When this family consented to Gardasil vaccination, they believed they were eliminating the worry of contracting cervical cancer. They got more than they bargained for.
Nov 24, 2010 – Bridget was always a healthy, happy child. She, like most 17 year old girls, had dreams. She was active in sports and loved participating, but being surrounded by children was where she was truly in her element. Her affinity for children was unquestionable. She knew what she was going to do with her life. She would become an elementary school teacher. The responsibility of molding young inquisitive minds was not frightening to her; she looked forward to accepting the challenge.
23 January 2007, Bridget had her first injection of Gardasil together with Hep A and Menactra. On the 4th of April, she got the second Gardasil injection. Then, in July, just a couple of weeks before Bridget was scheduled to get her final Gardasil shot, she contracted pneumonia. The situation became serious enough to rush her to the emergency room.
Bridget became so ill it took oxygen tanks to keep her alive. Her mother thought she was going to lose her. Luckily, this was not the case. Bridget recovered. By the 25th of July, she was well enough to keep her appointment for the third and final Gardasil injection. At this point, her mom thought it might be a good idea to postpone the third injection until Bridget was completely recovered.
When her mom expressed her concern to the doctor, she was assured it would be no problem. Bridget took the final Gardasil injection along with another Hep A shot. Shortly after, Bridget began to exhibit a host of symptoms.
Over a period of time, Bridget began to lose her hair, experience chronic sinus infections, migraines, dizziness and brain fog. She started experiencing unusual weight gain, episodes of dyslexia and severe PMS. By November, she began experiencing menstrual problems. Mysterious symptoms continued to appear.
In December 2008, Bridget was again admitted to the emergency room; this time with vomiting and diarrhea so severe she had become dehydrated. August 2009, Bridget had another trip to the emergency room with the same problem.
By January 2009, it was apparent that something was seriously wrong. Bridget’s family got no answers from the medical community. No one seemed to know what was causing Bridget’s mysterious ailments.
Desperate for answers, Mom turned to the internet to research possibilities. She searched for the symptoms Bridget had been experiencing. Imagine her surprise when most of Bridget’s symptoms appeared on sites discussing menopause. How could this be? Her daughter was only 19! Surely she could not be experiencing menopause!
Hours upon hours of more research, and Bridget’s mom stumbled across a site where people were discussing adverse reactions after Gardasil vaccinations. As she read the horror stories of sudden deaths, seizures and paralysis, she was appalled. Surely, it was not possible that her daughter’s symptoms were linked to a vaccine.
More research, hours and hours of questioning and searching. Bridget and her mother now feel they have the answer. They believe Gardasil has robbed them both of what should have been some of Bridget’s best years—her college life.
In spite of their belief, they still feel like they are among the lucky ones. Bridget was recently told by her physician that she is currently unable to have children (post-menopausal). She has been put on progesterone therapy. But, Bridget is alive; she is able to function. Her life is far from normal, but she still looks forward to the future.
Bridget, despite her medical difficulties has made it to her last semester in college. All of her coursework is complete. She is now a full-time student teacher, working with second grade children. She is still living her dream, in spite of the fact she still has to contend with one ‘mysterious’ ailment after another. Bridget does not know if she will ever be able to have children of her own, but she refuses to allow herself to become ‘one less.’
Go to http://sanevax.org/victims/gardasil-silgard-usa.shtml to read this story and many more.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
If you have suffered an adverse event after vaccination and would like your story told, please contact a SANE VAX, INC representative at info@sanevax.org.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Nov 24, 2010 – Bridget was always a healthy, happy child. She, like most 17 year old girls, had dreams. She was active in sports and loved participating, but being surrounded by children was where she was truly in her element. Her affinity for children was unquestionable. She knew what she was going to do with her life. She would become an elementary school teacher. The responsibility of molding young inquisitive minds was not frightening to her; she looked forward to accepting the challenge.
23 January 2007, Bridget had her first injection of Gardasil together with Hep A and Menactra. On the 4th of April, she got the second Gardasil injection. Then, in July, just a couple of weeks before Bridget was scheduled to get her final Gardasil shot, she contracted pneumonia. The situation became serious enough to rush her to the emergency room.
Bridget became so ill it took oxygen tanks to keep her alive. Her mother thought she was going to lose her. Luckily, this was not the case. Bridget recovered. By the 25th of July, she was well enough to keep her appointment for the third and final Gardasil injection. At this point, her mom thought it might be a good idea to postpone the third injection until Bridget was completely recovered.
When her mom expressed her concern to the doctor, she was assured it would be no problem. Bridget took the final Gardasil injection along with another Hep A shot. Shortly after, Bridget began to exhibit a host of symptoms.
Over a period of time, Bridget began to lose her hair, experience chronic sinus infections, migraines, dizziness and brain fog. She started experiencing unusual weight gain, episodes of dyslexia and severe PMS. By November, she began experiencing menstrual problems. Mysterious symptoms continued to appear.
In December 2008, Bridget was again admitted to the emergency room; this time with vomiting and diarrhea so severe she had become dehydrated. August 2009, Bridget had another trip to the emergency room with the same problem.
By January 2009, it was apparent that something was seriously wrong. Bridget’s family got no answers from the medical community. No one seemed to know what was causing Bridget’s mysterious ailments.
Desperate for answers, Mom turned to the internet to research possibilities. She searched for the symptoms Bridget had been experiencing. Imagine her surprise when most of Bridget’s symptoms appeared on sites discussing menopause. How could this be? Her daughter was only 19! Surely she could not be experiencing menopause!
Hours upon hours of more research, and Bridget’s mom stumbled across a site where people were discussing adverse reactions after Gardasil vaccinations. As she read the horror stories of sudden deaths, seizures and paralysis, she was appalled. Surely, it was not possible that her daughter’s symptoms were linked to a vaccine.
More research, hours and hours of questioning and searching. Bridget and her mother now feel they have the answer. They believe Gardasil has robbed them both of what should have been some of Bridget’s best years—her college life.
In spite of their belief, they still feel like they are among the lucky ones. Bridget was recently told by her physician that she is currently unable to have children (post-menopausal). She has been put on progesterone therapy. But, Bridget is alive; she is able to function. Her life is far from normal, but she still looks forward to the future.
Bridget, despite her medical difficulties has made it to her last semester in college. All of her coursework is complete. She is now a full-time student teacher, working with second grade children. She is still living her dream, in spite of the fact she still has to contend with one ‘mysterious’ ailment after another. Bridget does not know if she will ever be able to have children of her own, but she refuses to allow herself to become ‘one less.’
Go to http://sanevax.org/victims/gardasil-silgard-usa.shtml to read this story and many more.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
If you have suffered an adverse event after vaccination and would like your story told, please contact a SANE VAX, INC representative at info@sanevax.org.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Friday, November 19, 2010
SaneVax Reports on Another Gardasil Injury: 13 Year Old Zeda's Story
"Today, Zeda still breathes through her trach and eats with a tube. She lives her life in a hospital bed in our living room, mostly non-responsive, with round the clock care and daily nursing visits."
Nov 16, 2010 – Amy Castelbery Pingle, Indiana: When one thinks of vaccine injuries, they normally think of the person who received the vaccine. This is not the whold story. Vaccine injuries impact family, friends, and everyone around the person sho actually got the shot. Consider this story of a single mother with four children, one of whom was completely disabled after receiving Gardasil. This mother watched her daughter change from the girl in the first photo, to the girl in the second and worse. Please take time to read the story in her own words.
I am a single mother of four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. We live in Lake Station, Indiana. Before my oldest daughter Zeda got sick, we had a normal life. I worked a full-time job. 13 year old Zeda was a cheerleader and straight A student. She was also a big help to me with my other children.
I have always done my best to keep my kids healthy. I had them get their wellness check-ups and they always got whatever vaccines the doctor suggested. All my kids were completely healthy, other than the simple colds here and there. Completely healthy, that is, until it was time for Zeda's well visit on November 5th, 2008. And then her life, as she knew it, completely changed along with the rest of our family.
Zeda’s pediatrician suggested the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) or, as I know it now, the Gardasil vaccine. I thought “OK, this is what I am supposed to do to keep her healthy.” My doctor said to do it and so we did it. I knew absolutely nothing about the vaccine, other than it was for girls her age. I was not told of any side effects, other than the potential for soreness around the injection site.
A week after Zeda got the shot, she started to complain here and there, of a headache and of feeling sick to her stomach. Perhaps like some of your own daughters at her age, Zeda was a Drama Queen. So when she would tell me these things, I would tell her to lie down, murmur to her that she had probably had a long day, or I would give her some Tylenol. It never would have occurred to me that those little signs were red flags. Not until November 28th, 2008, when we were on our way to pick up her little sister from a friend's house. While in the car, Zeda kept dropping her phone. Suddenly, my son said, "Mom, I think something is wrong with Zeda!" She was crying, she was drooling, and her eyes were not looking right. She looked to me as if she had just had a seizure. I knew this because my brother had seizures. I rushed her to the ER.
This is where the confusion started with her diagnosis. First, they accused Zeda of overdosing on drugs. They yelled at her, in her face, that she needed to tell them what she had taken. I was so scared. I had no clue what was going on, and these doctors and nurses screaming at my daughter. Zeda was as scared as I was. I believe she knew that something was seriously wrong. She was confused and not able to say what she wanted. And then she had another major seizure in the middle of the ER. That is when they finally started to take us seriously. By then, they had her drug test results which were negative for any illegal drugs.
After those horrible few hours, they transferred Zeda to our local hospital, along with a pediatric neurologist and Zeda’s pediatrician. I thought we would surely get some answers there. They started running all kinds of tests. At this point, Zeda was unable to say a whole sentence; she could only say a few words at a time. She was so scared and was crying very hard. We had an MRI, a CAT scan, an EEG, and a spinal tap done. Whatever they were looking for, they did not find, all the tests were negative. The MRI did show a "shadow" on the right side of her brain, which they were now treating as viral encephalitis. But as Zeda's health deteriorated, our pediatrician continued to say she was doing this to herself, that she was "faking" it.
In the four days we were at our local hospital, Zeda had stopped talking, stopped eating, stopped walking, and was now urinating on herself. It was the nurses, NOT our doctor, who said something was truly wrong! Her symptoms were not taken seriously until a psychiatrist came in, tested her and issued a professional opinion that she wasn't faking it. One nurse suggested we go to a specialty hospital, as we were getting nowhere.
We agreed.
Within 45 minutes, we were flown to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. There, they continued to accuse her of doing this to herself. They installed 24-hour video surveillance on Zeda for about two weeks to try to catch her in the act of faking it. And they continued to perform test after test, all of which came back negative. She developed had uncontrollable movements, extremely high heart rate (up to180 bpm), high fevers including one that was 108.7 degrees, and at one point she was placed in a medical induced coma. Yet they couldn’t tell us what was wrong or why it was happening, so they instead spent most of their time blaming us and trying to prove that she was faking it. No one would go on the record to say that the Gardasil vaccine did this to Zeda.
Zeda eventually lost lung functioning and was placed on a ventilator for several months. A tracheotomy and feeding tube were put in as she could no longer eat or breathe on her own. We were at Riley Hospital for four months and her doctors still could not tell us what happened to her, only that they are sure it was not a vaccine reaction. This despite dozens of cases of similar reactions in previously healthy girls following the HPV vaccine.
Today, Zeda still breathes through her trach and eats with a tube. She lives her life in a hospital bed in our living room, mostly non-responsive, with round the clock care and daily nursing visits. This has become the defining struggle of my life… I struggle every single day to do what I can to get her better.
I am here to tell you that I didn’t know. And I think many parents are like me, and they don’t know either. I thought vaccines would keep my children safe and healthy. I didn’t know that vaccines could do this. No one ever told me. My doctor never told me the risks. I never saw anyone or anything that told me this could happen. I’m not telling you not to vaccinate. But I am telling you that people who pressure you to vaccinate don’t own the consequences. Only you, as parents, do. And if you do vaccinate, you better be really comfortable about the need for each vaccine. Because every time you vaccinate your child, there is a risk. It’s important that parents understand what’s at stake.
I deeply regret my decision to allow Zeda to get this shot. She has lost all quality of life. I would do anything to get her better, but no one has any answers for me. They still don’t believe it was the vaccine. And now that she’s sick, no one knows how to help my baby girl.
Go to http://sanevax.org/victims/gardasil-silgard-usa.shtml to read this story and many more.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Nov 16, 2010 – Amy Castelbery Pingle, Indiana: When one thinks of vaccine injuries, they normally think of the person who received the vaccine. This is not the whold story. Vaccine injuries impact family, friends, and everyone around the person sho actually got the shot. Consider this story of a single mother with four children, one of whom was completely disabled after receiving Gardasil. This mother watched her daughter change from the girl in the first photo, to the girl in the second and worse. Please take time to read the story in her own words.
I am a single mother of four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. We live in Lake Station, Indiana. Before my oldest daughter Zeda got sick, we had a normal life. I worked a full-time job. 13 year old Zeda was a cheerleader and straight A student. She was also a big help to me with my other children.
I have always done my best to keep my kids healthy. I had them get their wellness check-ups and they always got whatever vaccines the doctor suggested. All my kids were completely healthy, other than the simple colds here and there. Completely healthy, that is, until it was time for Zeda's well visit on November 5th, 2008. And then her life, as she knew it, completely changed along with the rest of our family.
Zeda’s pediatrician suggested the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) or, as I know it now, the Gardasil vaccine. I thought “OK, this is what I am supposed to do to keep her healthy.” My doctor said to do it and so we did it. I knew absolutely nothing about the vaccine, other than it was for girls her age. I was not told of any side effects, other than the potential for soreness around the injection site.
A week after Zeda got the shot, she started to complain here and there, of a headache and of feeling sick to her stomach. Perhaps like some of your own daughters at her age, Zeda was a Drama Queen. So when she would tell me these things, I would tell her to lie down, murmur to her that she had probably had a long day, or I would give her some Tylenol. It never would have occurred to me that those little signs were red flags. Not until November 28th, 2008, when we were on our way to pick up her little sister from a friend's house. While in the car, Zeda kept dropping her phone. Suddenly, my son said, "Mom, I think something is wrong with Zeda!" She was crying, she was drooling, and her eyes were not looking right. She looked to me as if she had just had a seizure. I knew this because my brother had seizures. I rushed her to the ER.
This is where the confusion started with her diagnosis. First, they accused Zeda of overdosing on drugs. They yelled at her, in her face, that she needed to tell them what she had taken. I was so scared. I had no clue what was going on, and these doctors and nurses screaming at my daughter. Zeda was as scared as I was. I believe she knew that something was seriously wrong. She was confused and not able to say what she wanted. And then she had another major seizure in the middle of the ER. That is when they finally started to take us seriously. By then, they had her drug test results which were negative for any illegal drugs.
After those horrible few hours, they transferred Zeda to our local hospital, along with a pediatric neurologist and Zeda’s pediatrician. I thought we would surely get some answers there. They started running all kinds of tests. At this point, Zeda was unable to say a whole sentence; she could only say a few words at a time. She was so scared and was crying very hard. We had an MRI, a CAT scan, an EEG, and a spinal tap done. Whatever they were looking for, they did not find, all the tests were negative. The MRI did show a "shadow" on the right side of her brain, which they were now treating as viral encephalitis. But as Zeda's health deteriorated, our pediatrician continued to say she was doing this to herself, that she was "faking" it.
In the four days we were at our local hospital, Zeda had stopped talking, stopped eating, stopped walking, and was now urinating on herself. It was the nurses, NOT our doctor, who said something was truly wrong! Her symptoms were not taken seriously until a psychiatrist came in, tested her and issued a professional opinion that she wasn't faking it. One nurse suggested we go to a specialty hospital, as we were getting nowhere.
We agreed.
Within 45 minutes, we were flown to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. There, they continued to accuse her of doing this to herself. They installed 24-hour video surveillance on Zeda for about two weeks to try to catch her in the act of faking it. And they continued to perform test after test, all of which came back negative. She developed had uncontrollable movements, extremely high heart rate (up to180 bpm), high fevers including one that was 108.7 degrees, and at one point she was placed in a medical induced coma. Yet they couldn’t tell us what was wrong or why it was happening, so they instead spent most of their time blaming us and trying to prove that she was faking it. No one would go on the record to say that the Gardasil vaccine did this to Zeda.
Zeda eventually lost lung functioning and was placed on a ventilator for several months. A tracheotomy and feeding tube were put in as she could no longer eat or breathe on her own. We were at Riley Hospital for four months and her doctors still could not tell us what happened to her, only that they are sure it was not a vaccine reaction. This despite dozens of cases of similar reactions in previously healthy girls following the HPV vaccine.
Today, Zeda still breathes through her trach and eats with a tube. She lives her life in a hospital bed in our living room, mostly non-responsive, with round the clock care and daily nursing visits. This has become the defining struggle of my life… I struggle every single day to do what I can to get her better.
I am here to tell you that I didn’t know. And I think many parents are like me, and they don’t know either. I thought vaccines would keep my children safe and healthy. I didn’t know that vaccines could do this. No one ever told me. My doctor never told me the risks. I never saw anyone or anything that told me this could happen. I’m not telling you not to vaccinate. But I am telling you that people who pressure you to vaccinate don’t own the consequences. Only you, as parents, do. And if you do vaccinate, you better be really comfortable about the need for each vaccine. Because every time you vaccinate your child, there is a risk. It’s important that parents understand what’s at stake.
I deeply regret my decision to allow Zeda to get this shot. She has lost all quality of life. I would do anything to get her better, but no one has any answers for me. They still don’t believe it was the vaccine. And now that she’s sick, no one knows how to help my baby girl.
Go to http://sanevax.org/victims/gardasil-silgard-usa.shtml to read this story and many more.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
What is Wrong with the Gardasil Girls? Amy's Story
Amy Castelbery Pingle, Indiana: When one thinks of vaccine injuries, they normally think of the person who received the vaccine. This is not the whold story. Vaccine injuries impact family, friends, and everyone around the person sho actually got the shot. Consider this story of a single mother with four children, one of whom was completely disabled after receiving Gardasil. This mother watched her daughter change from the girl in the first photo, to the girl in the second and worse. Please take time to read the story in her own words.
I am a single mother of four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. We live in Lake Station, Indiana. Before my oldest daughter Zeda got sick, we had a normal life. I worked a full-time job. 13 year old Zeda was a cheerleader and straight A student. She was also a big help to me with my other children.
I have always done my best to keep my kids healthy. I had them get their wellness check-ups and they always got whatever vaccines the doctor suggested. All my kids were completely healthy, other than the simple colds here and there. Completely healthy, that is, until it was time for Zeda's well visit on November 5th, 2008. And then her life, as she knew it, completely changed along with the rest of our family.
Zeda’s pediatrician suggested the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) or, as I know it now, the Gardasil vaccine. I thought “OK, this is what I am supposed to do to keep her healthy.” My doctor said to do it and so we did it. I knew absolutely nothing about the vaccine, other than it was for girls her age. I was not told of any side effects, other than the potential for soreness around the injection site.
A week after Zeda got the shot, she started to complain here and there, of a headache and of feeling sick to her stomach. Perhaps like some of your own daughters at her age, Zeda was a Drama Queen. So when she would tell me these things, I would tell her to lie down, murmur to her that she had probably had a long day, or I would give her some Tylenol. It never would have occurred to me that those little signs were red flags. Not until November 28th, 2008, when we were on our way to pick up her little sister from a friend's house. While in the car, Zeda kept dropping her phone. Suddenly, my son said, "Mom, I think something is wrong with Zeda!" She was crying, she was drooling, and her eyes were not looking right. She looked to me as if she had just had a seizure. I knew this because my brother had seizures. I rushed her to the ER.
This is where the confusion started with her diagnosis. First, they accused Zeda of overdosing on drugs. They yelled at her, in her face, that she needed to tell them what she had taken. I was so scared. I had no clue what was going on, and these doctors and nurses screaming at my daughter. Zeda was as scared as I was. I believe she knew that something was seriously wrong. She was confused and not able to say what she wanted. And then she had another major seizure in the middle of the ER. That is when they finally started to take us seriously. By then, they had her drug test results which were negative for any illegal drugs.
After those horrible few hours, they transferred Zeda to our local hospital, along with a pediatric neurologist and Zeda’s pediatrician. I thought we would surely get some answers there. They started running all kinds of tests. At this point, Zeda was unable to say a whole sentence; she could only say a few words at a time. She was so scared and was crying very hard. We had an MRI, a CAT scan, an EEG, and a spinal tap done. Whatever they were looking for, they did not find, all the tests were negative. The MRI did show a "shadow" on the right side of her brain, which they were now treating as viral encephalitis. But as Zeda's health deteriorated, our pediatrician continued to say she was doing this to herself, that she was "faking" it.
In the four days we were at our local hospital, Zeda had stopped talking, stopped eating, stopped walking, and was now urinating on herself. It was the nurses, NOT our doctor, who said something was truly wrong! Her symptoms were not taken seriously until a psychiatrist came in, tested her and issued a professional opinion that she wasn't faking it. One nurse suggested we go to a specialty hospital, as we were getting nowhere.
We agreed.
Within 45 minutes, we were flown to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. There, they continued to accuse her of doing this to herself. They installed 24-hour video surveillance on Zeda for about two weeks to try to catch her in the act of faking it. And they continued to perform test after test, all of which came back negative. She developed had uncontrollable movements, extremely high heart rate (up to180 bpm), high fevers including one that was 108.7 degrees, and at one point she was placed in a medical induced coma. Yet they couldn’t tell us what was wrong or why it was happening, so they instead spent most of their time blaming us and trying to prove that she was faking it. No one would go on the record to say that the Gardasil vaccine did this to Zeda.
Zeda eventually lost lung functioning and was placed on a ventilator for several months. A tracheotomy and feeding tube were put in as she could no longer eat or breathe on her own. We were at Riley Hospital for four months and her doctors still could not tell us what happened to her, only that they are sure it was not a vaccine reaction. This despite dozens of cases of similar reactions in previously healthy girls following the HPV vaccine.
Today, Zeda still breathes through her trach and eats with a tube. She lives her life in a hospital bed in our living room, mostly non-responsive, with round the clock care and daily nursing visits. This has become the defining struggle of my life… I struggle every single day to do what I can to get her better.
I am here to tell you that I didn’t know. And I think many parents are like me, and they don’t know either. I thought vaccines would keep my children safe and healthy. I didn’t know that vaccines could do this. No one ever told me. My doctor never told me the risks. I never saw anyone or anything that told me this could happen. I’m not telling you not to vaccinate. But I am telling you that people who pressure you to vaccinate don’t own the consequences. Only you, as parents, do. And if you do vaccinate, you better be really comfortable about the need for each vaccine. Because every time you vaccinate your child, there is a risk. It’s important that parents understand what’s at stake.
I deeply regret my decision to allow Zeda to get this shot. She has lost all quality of life. I would do anything to get her better, but no one has any answers for me. They still don’t believe it was the vaccine. And now that she’s sick, no one knows how to help my baby girl.
Go to http://sanevax.org/victims/gardasil-silgard-usa.shtml to read this story and many more.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
I am a single mother of four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. We live in Lake Station, Indiana. Before my oldest daughter Zeda got sick, we had a normal life. I worked a full-time job. 13 year old Zeda was a cheerleader and straight A student. She was also a big help to me with my other children.
I have always done my best to keep my kids healthy. I had them get their wellness check-ups and they always got whatever vaccines the doctor suggested. All my kids were completely healthy, other than the simple colds here and there. Completely healthy, that is, until it was time for Zeda's well visit on November 5th, 2008. And then her life, as she knew it, completely changed along with the rest of our family.
Zeda’s pediatrician suggested the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) or, as I know it now, the Gardasil vaccine. I thought “OK, this is what I am supposed to do to keep her healthy.” My doctor said to do it and so we did it. I knew absolutely nothing about the vaccine, other than it was for girls her age. I was not told of any side effects, other than the potential for soreness around the injection site.
A week after Zeda got the shot, she started to complain here and there, of a headache and of feeling sick to her stomach. Perhaps like some of your own daughters at her age, Zeda was a Drama Queen. So when she would tell me these things, I would tell her to lie down, murmur to her that she had probably had a long day, or I would give her some Tylenol. It never would have occurred to me that those little signs were red flags. Not until November 28th, 2008, when we were on our way to pick up her little sister from a friend's house. While in the car, Zeda kept dropping her phone. Suddenly, my son said, "Mom, I think something is wrong with Zeda!" She was crying, she was drooling, and her eyes were not looking right. She looked to me as if she had just had a seizure. I knew this because my brother had seizures. I rushed her to the ER.
This is where the confusion started with her diagnosis. First, they accused Zeda of overdosing on drugs. They yelled at her, in her face, that she needed to tell them what she had taken. I was so scared. I had no clue what was going on, and these doctors and nurses screaming at my daughter. Zeda was as scared as I was. I believe she knew that something was seriously wrong. She was confused and not able to say what she wanted. And then she had another major seizure in the middle of the ER. That is when they finally started to take us seriously. By then, they had her drug test results which were negative for any illegal drugs.
After those horrible few hours, they transferred Zeda to our local hospital, along with a pediatric neurologist and Zeda’s pediatrician. I thought we would surely get some answers there. They started running all kinds of tests. At this point, Zeda was unable to say a whole sentence; she could only say a few words at a time. She was so scared and was crying very hard. We had an MRI, a CAT scan, an EEG, and a spinal tap done. Whatever they were looking for, they did not find, all the tests were negative. The MRI did show a "shadow" on the right side of her brain, which they were now treating as viral encephalitis. But as Zeda's health deteriorated, our pediatrician continued to say she was doing this to herself, that she was "faking" it.
In the four days we were at our local hospital, Zeda had stopped talking, stopped eating, stopped walking, and was now urinating on herself. It was the nurses, NOT our doctor, who said something was truly wrong! Her symptoms were not taken seriously until a psychiatrist came in, tested her and issued a professional opinion that she wasn't faking it. One nurse suggested we go to a specialty hospital, as we were getting nowhere.
We agreed.
Within 45 minutes, we were flown to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. There, they continued to accuse her of doing this to herself. They installed 24-hour video surveillance on Zeda for about two weeks to try to catch her in the act of faking it. And they continued to perform test after test, all of which came back negative. She developed had uncontrollable movements, extremely high heart rate (up to180 bpm), high fevers including one that was 108.7 degrees, and at one point she was placed in a medical induced coma. Yet they couldn’t tell us what was wrong or why it was happening, so they instead spent most of their time blaming us and trying to prove that she was faking it. No one would go on the record to say that the Gardasil vaccine did this to Zeda.
Zeda eventually lost lung functioning and was placed on a ventilator for several months. A tracheotomy and feeding tube were put in as she could no longer eat or breathe on her own. We were at Riley Hospital for four months and her doctors still could not tell us what happened to her, only that they are sure it was not a vaccine reaction. This despite dozens of cases of similar reactions in previously healthy girls following the HPV vaccine.
Today, Zeda still breathes through her trach and eats with a tube. She lives her life in a hospital bed in our living room, mostly non-responsive, with round the clock care and daily nursing visits. This has become the defining struggle of my life… I struggle every single day to do what I can to get her better.
I am here to tell you that I didn’t know. And I think many parents are like me, and they don’t know either. I thought vaccines would keep my children safe and healthy. I didn’t know that vaccines could do this. No one ever told me. My doctor never told me the risks. I never saw anyone or anything that told me this could happen. I’m not telling you not to vaccinate. But I am telling you that people who pressure you to vaccinate don’t own the consequences. Only you, as parents, do. And if you do vaccinate, you better be really comfortable about the need for each vaccine. Because every time you vaccinate your child, there is a risk. It’s important that parents understand what’s at stake.
I deeply regret my decision to allow Zeda to get this shot. She has lost all quality of life. I would do anything to get her better, but no one has any answers for me. They still don’t believe it was the vaccine. And now that she’s sick, no one knows how to help my baby girl.
Go to http://sanevax.org/victims/gardasil-silgard-usa.shtml to read this story and many more.
Please visit our site at http://sanevax.org/.
# # #
THE SANE VAX MISSION is to promote Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective vaccines and vaccination practices through education and information. We believe in science-based medicine.
Monday, November 15, 2010
HPV Vaccine – Why Are So Many Women Choosing Not to Get Vaccinated?
Press Release
Immediate Release
Contact: Bobbi Cowan Public Relations
Phone: (818) 980-2372
Email: bobbicowan@sbcglobal.net
Web Site: http://sanevax.org
HPV Vaccine – Why Are So Many Women Choosing Not to Get Vaccinated?
A Rhetorical Question - Deserves an Answer.
November 15, 2010. North Hollywood, CA. The million dollar question asked around the world – and across the Internet. Why are so few women getting the HPV vaccine? The tone of the articles has been incredulous – and as Dr. Leigh Vinocour states in the November 13 issue of The Huffington Post:
It is probably one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of this past decade. A vaccine to prevent cancer! We now better understand the link between cancers and viruses and how some viruses such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) can change cells and cause them to become cancerous. In essence we have identified a communicable form of cancer.
In the August 2006 issue of Immunity 25, 179-184, ©Elsevier Inc. Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine in Australia and creator of the HPV vaccine wrote a commentary on his work and the science behind Human Papillomavirus and the vaccine. Frazer states: “…Nevertheless, HPV vaccines should eventually eliminate a number of epithelial cancers and reduce the annual burden of cancer deaths globally by 5%–10%.”
According to the American Cancer Society deaths from invasive cervical cancer are not even in the top ten cancer concerns. Why are we pressuring all girls to get vaccinated? There are even rumors that adolescent girls will be getting text messages reminding them to get vaccinated. Is this a public service message or propaganda for a vaccine campaign gone bad?
In the recently published, “Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version” The National Cancer Institute stated that direct causation between HPV and cervical cancer has not been demonstrated.
“The finding of HPV viral DNA integrated in most cellular genomes of cervical carcinomas supports epidemiologic data linking this agent to cervical cancer however, direct causation has not been demonstrated.”
Women have decided to wait to get vaccinated until the HPV vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective. That has yet to be done. The mothers of injured girls and girls who have died have mounted a massive social media and marketing campaign that has caught the attention of the world. Researchers, educators and physicians are lending their support as concerns and issues raised are catching the attention of the medical establishment.
Women have spoken with a voice of reason – after reading through the volumes of substantiated research on hundreds of sites exposing the faulty research in the science and the development of the HPV vaccine.
Fact – HPV – a very common virus – transmitted in many other ways than sexually – passes through most women’s bodies in less than 2 years.
Reports of HPV vaccine damage and deaths keep mounting, according to latest VAERS reports. (Over 20,000 adverse reactions and 84 deaths – including that of a healthy 40 day old breastfeeding infant whose mother received the first in the series of the HPV4 vaccine (Gardasil) and who died the next day.)
On November 7, 2010 a report of the development of Hodgkins Lymphoma post-vaccination was reported – now making the total of 20 reports of this form of cancer appearing.
In spite of Merck’s award winning marketing campaign, women have spoken. They have decided against being “one less” - to being “one more” healthy adolescent accountable for her own health care.
“The Centers for Disease Control reported in late August that while 44% of teenagers received the HPV vaccine in 2009, only 27% of them received all three doses of the shot. Unfortunately, there isn't evidence to support that getting only one shot effectively protects against cancer. So why aren't women finishing the series?”
According to the 2008 FDA Closing Statement on Gardasil, it was noted that 73.3% of girls receiving the vaccine would develop “new medical conditions.” Just doing the quick math with only 27% completing the series and 73% getting some kind of “mystery illness’ undiagnosed by doctors – SANEVax believes the the question answers itself.
The HPV Vaccine Education Awareness campaign to prevent more deaths and injury from a vaccine gone bad is the first of its kind in history and it is world-wide. Let it set a precedent for the pharmaceutical companies, FDA, CDC, and all other governments and health authorities who try and push experimental medicines on an unsuspecting public. Those days are gone.
The SaneVax team stands behind mothers around the world who are saying, “It is now time for everyone involved in the development, fast tracking and the marketing of the HPV vaccines to be held accountable for dubious decisions made in the interest of public health.”
Immediate Release
Contact: Bobbi Cowan Public Relations
Phone: (818) 980-2372
Email: bobbicowan@sbcglobal.net
Web Site: http://sanevax.org
HPV Vaccine – Why Are So Many Women Choosing Not to Get Vaccinated?
A Rhetorical Question - Deserves an Answer.
November 15, 2010. North Hollywood, CA. The million dollar question asked around the world – and across the Internet. Why are so few women getting the HPV vaccine? The tone of the articles has been incredulous – and as Dr. Leigh Vinocour states in the November 13 issue of The Huffington Post:
It is probably one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of this past decade. A vaccine to prevent cancer! We now better understand the link between cancers and viruses and how some viruses such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) can change cells and cause them to become cancerous. In essence we have identified a communicable form of cancer.
In the August 2006 issue of Immunity 25, 179-184, ©Elsevier Inc. Professor Ian Frazer, Director of the Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine in Australia and creator of the HPV vaccine wrote a commentary on his work and the science behind Human Papillomavirus and the vaccine. Frazer states: “…Nevertheless, HPV vaccines should eventually eliminate a number of epithelial cancers and reduce the annual burden of cancer deaths globally by 5%–10%.”
According to the American Cancer Society deaths from invasive cervical cancer are not even in the top ten cancer concerns. Why are we pressuring all girls to get vaccinated? There are even rumors that adolescent girls will be getting text messages reminding them to get vaccinated. Is this a public service message or propaganda for a vaccine campaign gone bad?
In the recently published, “Cervical Cancer Prevention, Health Professional Version” The National Cancer Institute stated that direct causation between HPV and cervical cancer has not been demonstrated.
“The finding of HPV viral DNA integrated in most cellular genomes of cervical carcinomas supports epidemiologic data linking this agent to cervical cancer however, direct causation has not been demonstrated.”
Women have decided to wait to get vaccinated until the HPV vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective. That has yet to be done. The mothers of injured girls and girls who have died have mounted a massive social media and marketing campaign that has caught the attention of the world. Researchers, educators and physicians are lending their support as concerns and issues raised are catching the attention of the medical establishment.
Women have spoken with a voice of reason – after reading through the volumes of substantiated research on hundreds of sites exposing the faulty research in the science and the development of the HPV vaccine.
Fact – HPV – a very common virus – transmitted in many other ways than sexually – passes through most women’s bodies in less than 2 years.
Reports of HPV vaccine damage and deaths keep mounting, according to latest VAERS reports. (Over 20,000 adverse reactions and 84 deaths – including that of a healthy 40 day old breastfeeding infant whose mother received the first in the series of the HPV4 vaccine (Gardasil) and who died the next day.)
On November 7, 2010 a report of the development of Hodgkins Lymphoma post-vaccination was reported – now making the total of 20 reports of this form of cancer appearing.
In spite of Merck’s award winning marketing campaign, women have spoken. They have decided against being “one less” - to being “one more” healthy adolescent accountable for her own health care.
“The Centers for Disease Control reported in late August that while 44% of teenagers received the HPV vaccine in 2009, only 27% of them received all three doses of the shot. Unfortunately, there isn't evidence to support that getting only one shot effectively protects against cancer. So why aren't women finishing the series?”
According to the 2008 FDA Closing Statement on Gardasil, it was noted that 73.3% of girls receiving the vaccine would develop “new medical conditions.” Just doing the quick math with only 27% completing the series and 73% getting some kind of “mystery illness’ undiagnosed by doctors – SANEVax believes the the question answers itself.
The HPV Vaccine Education Awareness campaign to prevent more deaths and injury from a vaccine gone bad is the first of its kind in history and it is world-wide. Let it set a precedent for the pharmaceutical companies, FDA, CDC, and all other governments and health authorities who try and push experimental medicines on an unsuspecting public. Those days are gone.
The SaneVax team stands behind mothers around the world who are saying, “It is now time for everyone involved in the development, fast tracking and the marketing of the HPV vaccines to be held accountable for dubious decisions made in the interest of public health.”
Friday, November 12, 2010
The journey of a Gardasil victim’s mother from trusting vaccines to vaccine activist
The Best Years in Life by Tony Isaacs
November 8, 2010
Two years ago, Rosemary Mathis was pretty much your average successful working mom. She had a good job and two children she loved and enjoyed. Like millions of other parents, she also had complete trust in her family doctor. Thus, she had no qualms about following his advice to have her daughter Lauren undergo the series of Gardasil vaccinations to protect against the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer. It was advice that would soon turn Rosemary’s world upside down.
“I always trusted my doctors. I always fully trusted all vaccines. I let him give it to her and should not have done that. But I did,” Rosemary said.
After Lauren’s first two doses of Gardasil in August, 2008 she experienced stomach pains, headaches, and nausea. Her doctor said she had a virus which was not related to the vaccine. Then Lauren received her third and final dose of Gardasil on August 18. Less than two weeks later she was completely bedridden and Rosemary began spending her days taking Lauren to doctors for round after round of tests and treatments.
“My 13 year old missed almost her entire eighth grade year of school!” Rosemary said. “Some of her symptoms were enlarged liver, gallbladder attacks, severe nausea, chest pain, severe abdominal pain, severe headaches, brain freezes, stomach ulcer, and sensitivity to light. She became severely depressed because she could not attend school or be with her friends like a normal child.”
Initially, doctors could not figure out why a 12-year old girl would have such symptoms. Ultimately, doctors settled on gall bladder problems and she was sent for surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Fortunately, the surgeon recognized that the symptoms were more than gall bladder dysfunction and did not operate.
Lauren was subsequently identified as a vaccine victim by Duke University. While Lauren was being treated for her problems, her mother Rosemary did not take the news sitting down. Instead, she began researching Gardasil and interacting with other victims’ mothers. She and other mothers formed Truth About Gardasil (www.truthaboutgardasil.org) and later the non-profit SANE VAX, Inc. (www.sanevax.org) to help spread the word about Gardasil dangers. Today, Rosemary Mathis and SANE VAX are internationally known and respected, which Rosemary said is largely due to the tireless efforts of SANE VAX volunteers.
On March 12 of this year, Rosemary appeared before the FDA and presented 243 pages of data and reports about Gardasil, including the 61 deaths and over 17,000 adverse reactions reported thus far. The FDA promised to get back to the group within a month, but thus far has done little more than give assurances that the materials have been forwarded to appropriate parties for review.
As Rosemary and the group have found, FDA action on dangerous drugs can be a slow, arduous and frustrating endeavor. It took the FDA years and a death count that reached over 50,000 before finally banning Vioxx. By comparison, after 52 deaths were attributed to unintended acceleration in Toyotas, a $2 billion recall ensued.
Gardasil, a Merck vaccine targeting HPV, was given FDA fast-track approval in 2006 – a decision that surprised many since cervical cancer accounts for less than 1 percent of all cancer deaths. Merck, who also made Vioxx, claims Gardasil will save lives, though no long term studies are available yet. The question Rosemary and others want answered is: What about all the lives it is costing or destroying?
To read more, go to http://www.tbyil.com/Vaccine_Victim_Mom_Activist.htm
November 8, 2010
Two years ago, Rosemary Mathis was pretty much your average successful working mom. She had a good job and two children she loved and enjoyed. Like millions of other parents, she also had complete trust in her family doctor. Thus, she had no qualms about following his advice to have her daughter Lauren undergo the series of Gardasil vaccinations to protect against the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer. It was advice that would soon turn Rosemary’s world upside down.
“I always trusted my doctors. I always fully trusted all vaccines. I let him give it to her and should not have done that. But I did,” Rosemary said.
After Lauren’s first two doses of Gardasil in August, 2008 she experienced stomach pains, headaches, and nausea. Her doctor said she had a virus which was not related to the vaccine. Then Lauren received her third and final dose of Gardasil on August 18. Less than two weeks later she was completely bedridden and Rosemary began spending her days taking Lauren to doctors for round after round of tests and treatments.
“My 13 year old missed almost her entire eighth grade year of school!” Rosemary said. “Some of her symptoms were enlarged liver, gallbladder attacks, severe nausea, chest pain, severe abdominal pain, severe headaches, brain freezes, stomach ulcer, and sensitivity to light. She became severely depressed because she could not attend school or be with her friends like a normal child.”
Initially, doctors could not figure out why a 12-year old girl would have such symptoms. Ultimately, doctors settled on gall bladder problems and she was sent for surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Fortunately, the surgeon recognized that the symptoms were more than gall bladder dysfunction and did not operate.
Lauren was subsequently identified as a vaccine victim by Duke University. While Lauren was being treated for her problems, her mother Rosemary did not take the news sitting down. Instead, she began researching Gardasil and interacting with other victims’ mothers. She and other mothers formed Truth About Gardasil (www.truthaboutgardasil.org) and later the non-profit SANE VAX, Inc. (www.sanevax.org) to help spread the word about Gardasil dangers. Today, Rosemary Mathis and SANE VAX are internationally known and respected, which Rosemary said is largely due to the tireless efforts of SANE VAX volunteers.
On March 12 of this year, Rosemary appeared before the FDA and presented 243 pages of data and reports about Gardasil, including the 61 deaths and over 17,000 adverse reactions reported thus far. The FDA promised to get back to the group within a month, but thus far has done little more than give assurances that the materials have been forwarded to appropriate parties for review.
As Rosemary and the group have found, FDA action on dangerous drugs can be a slow, arduous and frustrating endeavor. It took the FDA years and a death count that reached over 50,000 before finally banning Vioxx. By comparison, after 52 deaths were attributed to unintended acceleration in Toyotas, a $2 billion recall ensued.
Gardasil, a Merck vaccine targeting HPV, was given FDA fast-track approval in 2006 – a decision that surprised many since cervical cancer accounts for less than 1 percent of all cancer deaths. Merck, who also made Vioxx, claims Gardasil will save lives, though no long term studies are available yet. The question Rosemary and others want answered is: What about all the lives it is costing or destroying?
To read more, go to http://www.tbyil.com/Vaccine_Victim_Mom_Activist.htm
Schoolgirls reporting adverse effects from HPV vaccine
breakingnews.ie 11/11/2010 – 19:35:45
The Irish Medicines Board says it has received 64 reports of adverse affects associated with the use of Gardasil.The vaccine is being administered to secondary school students to protect against cervical cancer.
The HPV Schools Immunisation Programme started in May this year and an estimated 45,000 doses have been administered.
The IMB says it has received 64 reports of adverse events associated with use of Gardasil, 55 of which were received since the beginning of the Schools Immunisation Programme, with nine prior to this.
The Medicines Board says the majority of reports have been consistent with the expected pattern of adverse effects for the vaccine, as outlined in the product information.
Read more at http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/schoolgirls-reporting-adverse-effects-from-cervical-cancer-vaccine-481462.html#ixzz152Hu2hS5
The Irish Medicines Board says it has received 64 reports of adverse affects associated with the use of Gardasil.The vaccine is being administered to secondary school students to protect against cervical cancer.
The HPV Schools Immunisation Programme started in May this year and an estimated 45,000 doses have been administered.
The IMB says it has received 64 reports of adverse events associated with use of Gardasil, 55 of which were received since the beginning of the Schools Immunisation Programme, with nine prior to this.
The Medicines Board says the majority of reports have been consistent with the expected pattern of adverse effects for the vaccine, as outlined in the product information.
Read more at http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/schoolgirls-reporting-adverse-effects-from-cervical-cancer-vaccine-481462.html#ixzz152Hu2hS5
S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc., issues challenge to scientific and medical researchers
9 out of 10 parents want vaccine safety research conducted – the SaneVax Team agrees.
PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 11, 2010 – The C.S. Mott Children’s National Poll on Children’s Health asked 1,621 U.S. parents to rate the importance of different types of medical research for children’s health.Survey results, released on 11 October 2010, ranked the following items as parents’ top research priorities:
89% – vaccine safety
88% – medication safety and effectiveness
72% – research should be done on things in the environment that could lead to health issues
67% – foods that might protect against cancer
66% – new treatments for rare childhood diseases
64% – research on cancer-causing foods.
64% – new treatments for common childhood illnesses
46% – research for leading causes of injuries
Parental concerns about the safety of vaccines have increased markedly over the last decade. The survey results above say it all. Almost 9 out of 10 parents are more concerned with vaccine safety than any other topic related to their children’s health and well-being.
Is it any wonder parents are concerned when you read through an FDA application for approval of a new vaccine and see phrases like “mechanism of action unknown,” and “assumed to be safe and effective?”
Is it any wonder parents are concerned when it is reported that 85% of new drugs ‘offer few if any new benefits while having the potential to cause serious harm due to toxicity, or misuse?’ (Visit http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-famil … to learn more.)
Take HPV vaccines, for instance. There have been awards given to manufacturers for creating markets out of thin air. Campaigns have been mounted worldwide to vaccinate entire populations for a virus that may be a contributing factor to causing certain types of cancer while knowing HPV does not actually cause cancer in and of itself.
The truth is most vaccine ingredients have not been independently examined and tested, either alone, or in combination with each other. In addition, EPA standards for heavy metal exposure indicate that many vaccine ingredients are toxic. Although several vaccines individually meet EPA safety standards, when vaccines are administered concurrently, they far exceed those standards.
Vaccines are being created at an unprecedented rate and advertised as ‘miracle cures’ for everything from breast cancer and inhibiting early puberty, to curing cocaine addictions. The public needs to know these vaccines are safe before they saturate the market and become a standard method of care.
Now, consider the fact that every electrical device you currently own is certified safe and rated for efficiency by an independent source called Underwriters Laboratories. This is done to protect people from unsafe, poorly manufactured, and/or inefficient electrical equipment. Even extension cords are U.L. rated.
This precaution is not taken with vaccines or medications. The FDA conducts no independent tests prior to approval. They rely on information provided by the manufacturers. It is a system intended to protect medical consumers, but the potential for abuse is virtually unlimited.
Perhaps the time has come for independent evaluation of vaccines and medications. Imagine being able to simply look at the label and see the vaccine or medication you are about to take had been independently tested and certified. Imagine a world where every vaccine and medication was certified S.A.N.E. – safe, affordable, necessary and effective.
The SaneVax team offers this challenge to scientists, medical professionals, and researchers:
Underwriters’ Laboratories was initially established by a few dedicated professionals testing an individual product. Let’s do the same thing, starting with vaccines.
If you are interested in taking up the challenge, please contact the SaneVax team at admin@sanevax.org. Together, we can provide a service American medical consumers are asking for. Together, we can help insure the safety and health of millions.
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PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 11, 2010 – The C.S. Mott Children’s National Poll on Children’s Health asked 1,621 U.S. parents to rate the importance of different types of medical research for children’s health.Survey results, released on 11 October 2010, ranked the following items as parents’ top research priorities:
89% – vaccine safety
88% – medication safety and effectiveness
72% – research should be done on things in the environment that could lead to health issues
67% – foods that might protect against cancer
66% – new treatments for rare childhood diseases
64% – research on cancer-causing foods.
64% – new treatments for common childhood illnesses
46% – research for leading causes of injuries
Parental concerns about the safety of vaccines have increased markedly over the last decade. The survey results above say it all. Almost 9 out of 10 parents are more concerned with vaccine safety than any other topic related to their children’s health and well-being.
Is it any wonder parents are concerned when you read through an FDA application for approval of a new vaccine and see phrases like “mechanism of action unknown,” and “assumed to be safe and effective?”
Is it any wonder parents are concerned when it is reported that 85% of new drugs ‘offer few if any new benefits while having the potential to cause serious harm due to toxicity, or misuse?’ (Visit http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-famil … to learn more.)
Take HPV vaccines, for instance. There have been awards given to manufacturers for creating markets out of thin air. Campaigns have been mounted worldwide to vaccinate entire populations for a virus that may be a contributing factor to causing certain types of cancer while knowing HPV does not actually cause cancer in and of itself.
The truth is most vaccine ingredients have not been independently examined and tested, either alone, or in combination with each other. In addition, EPA standards for heavy metal exposure indicate that many vaccine ingredients are toxic. Although several vaccines individually meet EPA safety standards, when vaccines are administered concurrently, they far exceed those standards.
Vaccines are being created at an unprecedented rate and advertised as ‘miracle cures’ for everything from breast cancer and inhibiting early puberty, to curing cocaine addictions. The public needs to know these vaccines are safe before they saturate the market and become a standard method of care.
Now, consider the fact that every electrical device you currently own is certified safe and rated for efficiency by an independent source called Underwriters Laboratories. This is done to protect people from unsafe, poorly manufactured, and/or inefficient electrical equipment. Even extension cords are U.L. rated.
This precaution is not taken with vaccines or medications. The FDA conducts no independent tests prior to approval. They rely on information provided by the manufacturers. It is a system intended to protect medical consumers, but the potential for abuse is virtually unlimited.
Perhaps the time has come for independent evaluation of vaccines and medications. Imagine being able to simply look at the label and see the vaccine or medication you are about to take had been independently tested and certified. Imagine a world where every vaccine and medication was certified S.A.N.E. – safe, affordable, necessary and effective.
The SaneVax team offers this challenge to scientists, medical professionals, and researchers:
Underwriters’ Laboratories was initially established by a few dedicated professionals testing an individual product. Let’s do the same thing, starting with vaccines.
If you are interested in taking up the challenge, please contact the SaneVax team at admin@sanevax.org. Together, we can provide a service American medical consumers are asking for. Together, we can help insure the safety and health of millions.
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A shot to delay puberty
newstraitstimes
Malaysia 2010/11/07
HEARD of the shot that delays puberty? Well, many worried parents in Hyderabad, India, have, and are now opting for these growth hormone injections for their child to delay the early onset of the menstrual cycle.
According to the Times of India, the medication appears to be a rather expensive mechanism to combat a disturbing urban health reality — girls as young as 8 and 9 attaining puberty.
Considered to be a disorder called “precocious puberty”, doctors have not only seen a rise in this condition in the last couple of years but in the number of takers of this medical treatment, which costs Rs3,500 to Rs4,000 (RM244 to RM279) a month.
“We get five to six early puberty cases a month. These girls, who are mostly between 5 and 8 years old, are managed by GnRH analogues, basically an injection to postpone the menstrual cycle till they reach 10 years of age or more,” says Prof Rakesh Kumar Sahay at Osmania Medical College.
Sahay says there are no significant side effects of this treatment.
Doctors say this condition not only has implications on the child’s height but increases the exposure to oestrogen, which can lead to breast cancer at a later stage.
Read more at http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/m07avp2/Article/#ixzz151qeGSsq
Malaysia 2010/11/07
HEARD of the shot that delays puberty? Well, many worried parents in Hyderabad, India, have, and are now opting for these growth hormone injections for their child to delay the early onset of the menstrual cycle.
According to the Times of India, the medication appears to be a rather expensive mechanism to combat a disturbing urban health reality — girls as young as 8 and 9 attaining puberty.
Considered to be a disorder called “precocious puberty”, doctors have not only seen a rise in this condition in the last couple of years but in the number of takers of this medical treatment, which costs Rs3,500 to Rs4,000 (RM244 to RM279) a month.
“We get five to six early puberty cases a month. These girls, who are mostly between 5 and 8 years old, are managed by GnRH analogues, basically an injection to postpone the menstrual cycle till they reach 10 years of age or more,” says Prof Rakesh Kumar Sahay at Osmania Medical College.
Sahay says there are no significant side effects of this treatment.
Doctors say this condition not only has implications on the child’s height but increases the exposure to oestrogen, which can lead to breast cancer at a later stage.
Read more at http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/m07avp2/Article/#ixzz151qeGSsq
Nobel Laureate, Dr. Harald zur Hausen, on HPV and ‘cancer’ vaccines
Many media sources claim anyone questioning vaccines is either ignorant and/or paying attention only to ‘junk’ science. Perhaps some of these ‘sources’ will listen to the man who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of HPV.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 06, 2010 – In 2008, half of the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Dr. Harald zur Hausen for 1) finding there are multiple HPV genotypes; 2) molecularly cloning HPV16 and HPV18 genomes and showing their DNA is present in a majority of cervical cancers; 3) observing a portion of the HPV genome is integrated in tumors, with preferential retention and expression of the E6 and E7 genes, thus implicating them as the principal viral oncogenes and suggesting that their continued expression contributed to the tumorigenic phenotype.
On 23 September 2010, Dr. Harald zur Hausen was a keynote speaker at an annual forum for Nobel Laureates held in Tokyo. The theme for this year’s forum was, “What can Science do for Human Beings?”
Following are excerpts from Dr. Hausen’s speech, “Many Unknowns in Cancer Agent Search.” (Visit http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/T1011030057 … for details.)
“We can presently surmise that approximately 12 to 15 percent of cancers in females globally are linked to papillomavirus infections and other types of viral infections.”
“We deal with very long latency periods, usually between the primary infection and the subsequent appearance of the respective forms of tumors–in some instances between 30 and 60 years between infection and tumor development.”
“So what happens in cancer? In cancer, the main event is once the uptake of a specific virus in a core gene, in those cases where we have the virus infection, but in the course of a long period of time, each of these signaling cascades is switched off due to mutations that occur within specific genes of those cascades, resulting in an increased expression of the respective gene and eventually in the malignant outgrowth of their respective types of cells. This commonly spans a period of 15 to 30 years in the case of cervical cancer.”
“The length of this type of latency period depends really on the number of cellular signaling cascades that need to be interrupted until the tumor develops. This means that in instances where we have no core gene present in the respective cells, and on the other hand, in one or two of these signaling cascade mutations, this particular individual will not develop cancer as long as it doesn’t take up additional factors, which means this person is at a higher risk for cancer development. But clearly these types of changes are not sufficient for cancer events to take place.”
“The protective effect for previously unexposed women–an important point, they need to be not infected because it’s only a preventive vaccine–comes close to 100 percent in the prevention of infections, and also in the prevention of previous steps of cervical cancer.”
This information is from one of the foremost experts on HPV. His words confirm that HPV, in and of itself, does not cause cervical cancer. Other risk factors must be present to trigger the change to cancer.
He also stresses that HPV vaccines come close to 100% effectiveness, IF the person is unexposed at the time of vaccination.
What are HPV vaccines effective at? Preventing future infections with Human Papillomavirus–which is not a disease–it is a virus. A virus that may, with repeated infections of the same genotype, increase the risk of developing cervical cancer 15+ years down the road. A virus that is benign in most instances, and needs other risk factors present prior to causing cancer.
One more critical fact: according to a clear statement made in a paper published on the results of an animal papillomavirus study sponsored in part by the National Cancer Institute, human papillomavirus (HPV) is highly species-specific, making it impossible to use animal studies to evaluate a vaccine’s efficacy. HPV vaccines can only be tested on humans. (Visit http://www.pnas.org/content/92/25/11553.full.pdf for details)
The SaneVax team has no problem with any and all efforts to prevent cancer. We only want the public to be told the truth. If HPV vaccines such as Gardasil, Silgard or Cervarix prevent infection by a virus that can be a risk factor for cancer, that is laudable. Just don’t try to tell us it prevents cervical cancer, or any other type of cancer, until it has been proven to do so.
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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) – Nov 06, 2010 – In 2008, half of the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Dr. Harald zur Hausen for 1) finding there are multiple HPV genotypes; 2) molecularly cloning HPV16 and HPV18 genomes and showing their DNA is present in a majority of cervical cancers; 3) observing a portion of the HPV genome is integrated in tumors, with preferential retention and expression of the E6 and E7 genes, thus implicating them as the principal viral oncogenes and suggesting that their continued expression contributed to the tumorigenic phenotype.
On 23 September 2010, Dr. Harald zur Hausen was a keynote speaker at an annual forum for Nobel Laureates held in Tokyo. The theme for this year’s forum was, “What can Science do for Human Beings?”
Following are excerpts from Dr. Hausen’s speech, “Many Unknowns in Cancer Agent Search.” (Visit http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/T1011030057 … for details.)
“We can presently surmise that approximately 12 to 15 percent of cancers in females globally are linked to papillomavirus infections and other types of viral infections.”
“We deal with very long latency periods, usually between the primary infection and the subsequent appearance of the respective forms of tumors–in some instances between 30 and 60 years between infection and tumor development.”
“So what happens in cancer? In cancer, the main event is once the uptake of a specific virus in a core gene, in those cases where we have the virus infection, but in the course of a long period of time, each of these signaling cascades is switched off due to mutations that occur within specific genes of those cascades, resulting in an increased expression of the respective gene and eventually in the malignant outgrowth of their respective types of cells. This commonly spans a period of 15 to 30 years in the case of cervical cancer.”
“The length of this type of latency period depends really on the number of cellular signaling cascades that need to be interrupted until the tumor develops. This means that in instances where we have no core gene present in the respective cells, and on the other hand, in one or two of these signaling cascade mutations, this particular individual will not develop cancer as long as it doesn’t take up additional factors, which means this person is at a higher risk for cancer development. But clearly these types of changes are not sufficient for cancer events to take place.”
“The protective effect for previously unexposed women–an important point, they need to be not infected because it’s only a preventive vaccine–comes close to 100 percent in the prevention of infections, and also in the prevention of previous steps of cervical cancer.”
This information is from one of the foremost experts on HPV. His words confirm that HPV, in and of itself, does not cause cervical cancer. Other risk factors must be present to trigger the change to cancer.
He also stresses that HPV vaccines come close to 100% effectiveness, IF the person is unexposed at the time of vaccination.
What are HPV vaccines effective at? Preventing future infections with Human Papillomavirus–which is not a disease–it is a virus. A virus that may, with repeated infections of the same genotype, increase the risk of developing cervical cancer 15+ years down the road. A virus that is benign in most instances, and needs other risk factors present prior to causing cancer.
One more critical fact: according to a clear statement made in a paper published on the results of an animal papillomavirus study sponsored in part by the National Cancer Institute, human papillomavirus (HPV) is highly species-specific, making it impossible to use animal studies to evaluate a vaccine’s efficacy. HPV vaccines can only be tested on humans. (Visit http://www.pnas.org/content/92/25/11553.full.pdf for details)
The SaneVax team has no problem with any and all efforts to prevent cancer. We only want the public to be told the truth. If HPV vaccines such as Gardasil, Silgard or Cervarix prevent infection by a virus that can be a risk factor for cancer, that is laudable. Just don’t try to tell us it prevents cervical cancer, or any other type of cancer, until it has been proven to do so.
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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.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
‘Injectable Education’ – HPV Vaccine’s new Bounty Hunters now at the classroom door.
Justin Healy, ComeLook.Org, 04 November 2010
How School Principals and Health Authorities conspire with a for-profit 'Injection-Service' agency to operate an 'anti-cancer' €100-per-jab scheme from Irish School premises.
The 'Aviva Schools CCV Catch Up Programme' launched on 27th September 2010 with the blessing of the Irish Minister for Health & Children, sees Health Insurance firm Aviva and "Infusion-Care" agency 'Point of Care' team up to target Irish schoolgirls aged 14-18 for injection with the controversial HPV vaccine called Gardasil. This "innovative initiative", according to Point of Care 'CEO' Jim Joyce, will give these girls "access to the vaccine at an affordable price and from the convenient location of their school".
The Silent Partner..The silent partner set to benefit most from this scheme is Merck, maker of the Gardasil vaccine (and their partner Sanofi Pasteur MSD who market it in Europe). This programme will allow access to up to 150,000 schoolchildren, with the course of 3 injections priced at €299 (a €50 deduction will apply if the parents take out a health insurance policy with Aviva ).
This is a welcome win for Merck, however minor, given that, according to CNN, Gardasil 'has proven to be a marketplace dud' and sales 'fell off a cliff' once word got out on the alarming numbers of associated post-injection Severe Adverse Reactions (including 80 Deaths) reported to the FDA post-approval drug monitoring system 'VAERs'. In fact, Merck literally cannot even give it away for free in places like India, after one such Gardasil program was suspended earlier this year due to the post-injection toll of deaths among young tribal girls.
In the EU, pharmaceutical companies such as Merck & Sanofi Pasteur are banned from engaging in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs. In order to generate interest in a new drug or vaccine, these companies usually fund surrogates, typically a 'Patient Lobby' group such as 'The ECCA' (European Cervical Cancer Association), to publicly disseminate “information” which is selectively edited to highlight the benefits of the drugs and gloss over potential adverse drug reactions.
By an incredible coincidence, the CEO of Point of Care, the agency promoting this Irish school 'Catch up' programme, and a 'Regional Market Access Leader' at Merck, are currently both members of the 5-man board of the "Schering Plough Alumni Community".
PTA Meeting Faciltated by Injection-Agency 'Specialist'Based on this reported account from the principal of one of the first schools to sign up for the scheme, the soft-sell goes like this:
A Point of Care 'rep' may contact a School Principal and may refer to an industry commissioned "survey" carried out by a "PR Research" agency which claims to show that most parents believe it would be a ‘good thing’ for their daughter to receive a cervical cancer vaccine. Note that the survey quoted in the current ‘Aviva Schools CCV Catch Up Programme’ used a tiny "sample" and could hardly be classed as representative (or independent).
Next, in response to "parental concerns", and in order to 'to find out more', the School Principal organises a Parent Teacher Meeting which will be 'facilitated' by a 'Specialist' from Point of Care. Then the parents will be told that the liquid drug in question will prevent cervical cancer and is perfectly safe to inject.
What they are not told is that any protection (from some strains of HPV) offered by Gardasil is not expected to last beyond 10 years. The professor who headed up some of the Gardasil Clinical Trials (funded by Merck) admits to this in a 2007 article (" we know that most alum-based vaccines need boosters within 10 years"). As the average age at which cervical cancer is diagnosed in Ireland is at age 44 , this vaccination program alone can therefore not be expected to have any impact on the rates of cervical cancer.
Escorting healthy schoolkids onto the Gardasil train with "affordable, reduced price" ticketsAnother purpose of the scheme is to entice people to take out health insurance cover with co-sponsor Aviva. Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Mona Joyce, a member of the 'Aviva Medical Council', (and whose renumeration details are not published on the Aviva website), adds her pitch to the Aviva press release: "“Aviva continue to be innovators in the Irish healthcare industry, looking for ways to make treatments more accessible and affordable. Cervical cancer vaccination can save lives and I fully support this initiative. The Aviva Schools CCV Catch-Up Programme will make this important vaccine more widely available and affordable at a reduced price of €249 for Aviva members".In her haste to promote the Aviva brand and the vaccine price reduction, it appears she has not researched the post marketing safety record of the vaccine in question. Or even glanced at the highly neuro-toxic ingredients. If she had, she might have got the "flashing lights" she referred to in a Dublin City Coroner's Court Inquest (on a former patient of hers) earlier this year, where she lamented, "If I'd known the train was going to crash, I would have escorted my patient off it."
Setting the PrecedentSuch is the extraordinarily lucrative business of administering vaccines in Ireland that doctors typically can charge 5 times the rate of that of UK GPs . Counteracting such medical establishment profiteering seems to be behind government acquiesence to allowing tax-payer funded public property to be made available as a venue for a for-profit injection agency to operate from.
However, with a green light being given to this 'Catch-up' scheme, in principal, it now appears that the precedent has been set for anyone with an injection to sell to simply ring up a school principal, and book a class to administer their 'product' to (after collecting signed 'informed consent' papers of course).
Protection for SchoolkidsDo schoolkids have a right to receive their education in an environment free from the insideous influence of profit-motivated individuals with disease mongering messages? Do school principals have the right to facilitate those marketeering questionable genetically engineered liquid drugs (i.e Gardasil) in disseminating their 'information leaflets' to parents and schoolkids?
Last month the European Parliament again voted to uphold a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising though pharmaceutical companies had been lobbying hard to have it lifted. Experience has shown how skilful the industry can be in manipulating ill-informed people into needless vaccination and overuse of prescription medicine. However, pharmaceutical companies still find a way to publicise their products through “disease awareness raising” and “information” campaigns for illnesses and drugs such as cervical cancer and Gardasil.
On the subject of DTCA, Tim Reed, Director of the Dutch based NGO Health Action International, explains the context in which unwary parents can be duped into participating in such an expensive, unsafe, and unnecessary* vaccination scheme.
"HAI Europe has witnessed the insidious creep of deliberate promotion of medical products to consumers, masquerading as patient information. We are aiming both to draw attention to the need for support for accurate, independent and relevant health information, and to combat scurrilous attempts to influence patients’ and consumers’ choice through advertising disguised as ‘patient information’’ he said.
*A free national cervical screening program is available in Ireland for over-25s. 95% of possible cervical cancer cases can be prevented in those who submit to regular screening.
**Details of the Survey:"The survey was carried out by Empathy Research online in May 2010, among members of Empathy Research’s Ideas Panel who had daughter(s) in secondary school (from 2nd to 6th year) and was living in the Republic of Ireland. There were a total of 100 participants in the full survey". See Website for PR Research agency "Empathy Research" - "Our results get attention".
See victims memorial page here for those who did not survive Gardasil.Testimonies here from US families of those disabled by Gardasil.
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