How to Create a Vaccine Safety Advocate

 

August 7, 2012

By Norma Erickson, President

Chris Tarsell: Gone but not forgotten

One would think everyone at the FDA and CDC would be a staunch vaccine safety advocate, but apparently that is not necessarily the case. How do you change a parent from someone who trusts their doctor and health authorities, following all of their advice into a determined vaccine safety advocate who is skeptical of health authorities?

Imagine for a moment you have one child, a lovely daughter, your pride and joy, who is away at college. She is the picture of health, bright, talented and athletic with dreams and ambitions, and well on her way to reaching her goals.

Then, one peaceful evening you hear a knock on the door. It is the police, there to inform you that your daughter was found dead in her bed for no apparent reason and with no signs of foul play. This happened in June 2008, when every parent’s worst nightmare became a reality for Emily Tarsell. Christina Tarsell had died in her sleep less than 3 weeks after her third and final injection of Gardasil^®.

The nightmare continued. A complete autopsy could not determine a cause for her daughter’s death. Then after seeing a television interview with victims of Gardasil, Emily began to suspect a link between her daughter’s death and Gardasil.

Emily and her doctors filed reports with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Amazingly, she received no communication from the CDC, FDA, or any other government agency charged with the investigation of deaths reported after vaccination. Apparently, talking to the parents of the deceased person is not a part of an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a death after vaccination. The CDC/FDA provided no answers.

Emily subsequently learned that Merck, the vaccine manufacturer, had filed a VAERS report stating falsely that a viral infection caused her daughter’s death, even though there was absolutely no evidence Chris had a viral infection. Emily challenged Merck about the false statement. She provided letters and documents from doctors to show there was no evidence to support Merck’s statements. It took a year before Merck back downed from their false statement.

Watch this investigative news report filmed shortly after Chris’s death to confirm the statements above.

Finding no help from governmental authorities, Emily had no choice but to investigate on her own. Since Chris’s death, she has learned that the vaccine was falsely advertised and there is no evidence it will prevent cervical cancer. She was never informed that Chris was at low risk of developing cervical cancer and that the incidence of cervical in this country is very low. She realized consumers are intentionally uninformed by the medical and pharmaceutical establishment. If the true risks and benefits were known, consumers would decline the vaccine.

She has met and grieved with many other families whose daughters were injured or died following Gardasil. She co-authored a study based on victim’s reports which shows a strong correlation between adverse symptoms and increasing doses of Gardasil (Report concerning a survey of adverse events following inoculations with Gardasil). She now realizes, as the nightmare continues, that her only daughter died from a vaccine she didn’t need that serves little to no public or private good.

These three astounding discoveries changed Emily from a trusting medical consumer into a dedicated vaccine safety advocate:

1. The apparent lack of initiative or concern by health authorities who are supposed to investigate adverse reactions and deaths following vaccination
2. False reports from the vaccine manufacturer.
3. False advertising regarding the safety and efficacy of Gardasil and lack of true information about cervical cancer prior to injections.

Emily has made it her personal mission to spread the word in the hope of preventing other families from experiencing what she has. She works tirelessly to make sure people have all the facts so they can decide whether Gardasil^® benefits outweigh the risks prior to consenting to vaccination

Read more about Chris and Emily here.

Watch a video tribute to Christina Tarsell here.

Visit our site at www.sanevax.org.

Influenza 2012: Potential Conflicts of Interest and the Role of Media

By Stephen Tunley, Director, SaneVax Inc.

Where is objective journalism?

During the last few weeks in Australia we have seen an increase in the number of news reports (print and broadcast) regarding this seasons Flu outbreak. A number of them have quoted Dr Alan Hampson who has provided his ‘expert’ opinion and encourages all to get the Flu shot as this year’s Flu will be worse than last year’s and so on, and so on…..

What the media fails to explain is that the good Dr Hampson, spent a large part of his career working for Australian vaccine manufacturer CSL, the same manufacturer which recently admitted

“ .. its (flu) vaccine production methods probably triggered seizures in children, in the first results from its two-year investigation into the Fluvax fits.

But … refused to say if it would pay compensation to the families of children hospitalised after being immunised with Fluvax, which has been banned for paediatric use after sending one in 100 children into febrile fits in 2010.

The preliminary results of CSL’s two-year investigation conclude that its manufacturing methods may have failed to fully split the viruses used to make flu vaccines.

As a result, gene fragments and lipids from “inactivated virus” — as well as “residual whole virus or clusters of both” — may have created higher levels of immune-stimulating hormones, known as cytokines.”

Basically they screwed up – and 1 in 100 Aussie kids who received the shots got very ill.

The same Dr Hampson who recommends everyone get vaccinated against the flu this year because of the ‘dire threat’ of a serious flu season was responsible for developing influenza vaccine production processes for part of his time at CSL. He is Chairman of the Influenza Specialist Group an organisation whose financial support comes mainly from sponsorship from Abbot, Baxter, and CSL, pharmaceutical companies involved in the manufacture and sale of flu vaccine in Australia. In addition, he is also Editor in Chief of the International Journal “Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses”, which lists as among its major sponsors two pharmaceutical companies Roche and Sanofi Pasteur. Roche via its Genentech subsidiary manufacture Tamiflu and Sanofi Pasteur the flu vaccine Intanza.

Given the reliance and general trust medical consumers place upon the opinions of these so called ‘medical experts’ the media has a responsibility to point out any potential of conflicts of interest; or find experts who are not conflicted?

Attachment 1:

Dr Alan Hampson, BSc, MSc, M.D. (Hon), FASM, OAM.

Dr Alan Hampson is a virologist with over 40 years experience working with influenza. His career includes responsibility for developing influenza vaccine production processes and senior R&D positions (Research & Development Manager) with the Australian biopharmaceutical group CSL Limited, and subsequently as Deputy Director and operational head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne, from its designation in 1992 until his retirement in September 2005. Since retirement Alan has maintained an active role both in Australia as a consultant, Chairman of the Australian Influenza Specialist Group (ISG), a member of Australian Government advisory committees on influenza and pandemic preparedness, and internationally with the WHO including membership of its Pandemic Taskforce (now the International Health Regulations Roster of Experts) and Editor in Chief of the international journal ‘Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses’. He also holds an appointment as Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Monash University Gippsland Campus. Alan has received numerous awards and recognition for his contribution to public health, including: recipient of the Asia Pacific Society for Medical Virology Excellence Award (2006); an Honorary Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Melbourne (2006); the Order of Australia Medal for his contributions to public health, particularly with respect to influenza (2007); and was made a Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology (FASM) in (2007).

New Death Post-Gardasil Updated VAERS Figures & Report that HPV Vaccines Adverse Reactions are 50% Higher than other Age- Related Recommended Vaccines

New Death Post-Gardasil Updated VAERS Figures & Report that HPV Vaccines Adverse Reactions are 50% Higher than other Age- Related Recommended Vaccines

November 29, 2011 By Leslie Carol Botha 5 Comments (Edit)

Mother of Injured Gardasil Girl Demands
Gardasil’s ‘New Medical Conditions’ Be Legitimized as
Post-Gardasil Syndrome (PGS) & Post-Cervarix Syndrome (PCS)

By Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations
November 29, 2011

One would think the world is facing a cervical cancer epidemic with the amount of money being exchanged and laws changed to make sure the potentially dangerous HPV vaccines and the rDNA contaminated Gardasil become front and center in global consumer markets. One must also be starting to question the hidden agendas behind this world-wide vaccination program.

Kind of slick and sly for the global media to announce on the U.S. Thanksgiving Day that Gardasil will make its debut in the UK by September 2012. Merck’s marketing department shows no thoughtfulness or integrity towards the parents of dead and injured Gardasil children to break this news on a traditional holiday with damaged families trying to count their blessings while battling the feelings of anger, frustration, betrayal, and powerlessness they now live with daily.

Updated VAERS Data

According to SANE Vax Inc. VAERS Researcher, Janny Stokvis, there has been another increase in adverse injuries and deaths from the HPV vaccines since the last report issued in August. Data below for HPV 2 Cervarix & HPV 4 Gardasil adverse reactions (estimated 1 to 10% of the vaccine injured population reporting) as of October 11 with significant category increases compared to August 11, 2011:

HPV Vaccines October
August




Disabled 780
763

Deaths 104
103

Did Not Recover 4,898
4,777

Abnormal Pap Smear 467
430

Cervical Dysplasia 177
157

Cervical Cancer 41
41

Life Threatening 457
444

Emergency Room Visit 9,312
9,115

Hospitalized 2,335
2,307

Extended Hospital stay 208
201

Serious 3,155
3,111

Total Adverse Events 23,982
23,388




ONE MORE GIRL

VAERS ID 437735 shows that on July 6, 2011, an 18 year old girl from Massachusetts died 84 days after receiving two shots of Gardasil:

Relapse of ITP: 18 year-old female with immune thrombocytopenic purpura, diagnosed in 1995 and in remission from 2004 to 2011 following treatment with Rituximab. Relapse in early April, 2011, followed administration of Gardasil vaccine on 10-26-10 and 1-7-11. Relapse of ITP led eventually to death from intracranial hemorrhage on 07/06/2011.

According to MedScape Reference: “Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a clinical syndrome in which a decreased number of circulating platelets (thrombocytopenia) manifests as a bleeding tendency, easy bruising (purpura), or extravasation of blood from capillaries into skin and mucous membranes (petechiae).” 1.
VAERS reports that the parents noted the petechiae event sometime in April, however, when tested, the girl’s lab diagnostics showed that the blood work was within normal range:

CBC on 04/26/2011 included platelet count 5000; WBC 5.4 with normal differential, Hgb 12.8, Hct 37.2, MCV 87.9; normal RBC morphology. 2.

SANE Vax Inc. is demanding an investigation into the death of an already immune-comprised teen girl who received Gardasil when the safety and efficacy data is based on clinical trials on healthy girls.3. What was the mechanism of action that caused her death from an intracranial hemorrhage?

HPV Vaccines – More than Double Vaccine Reactions than all other Recommended Vaccinations

In August, Steven Rubin posted disturbing data in VAERS showing that for the ‘CDC-recommended vaccines for 7-18-year-olds, HPV vaccine injuries were greater than others in that group.’ Rubin compiled the data below for the two age groups 0 – 6 and 7 – 18 showing the approximate numbers of reported adverse injuries from only the recommended vaccines for that age group.





Rubin notes “…..children age 0-6 years are reporting the most VAERS events following a DTP vaccination. Children ages 7-18 years are significantly affected by the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Note that HPV is already associated with over 100 deaths, and is not limited to girls (there are three reports of boys who have died following an HPV vaccination). This is not the most widely given vaccination for 7-18 year olds, but it appears frequently in VAERS and is associated with serious adverse effects.4.

Gardasil Victim’s Mother Demands Naming Gardasil ‘New Medical Conditions’

Deanna Martinez, mother of Shelby, age 17; who Martinez calls a “Gardasil Victim because she suffers from adverse reactions to this killer drug every day,” had her first and only Gardasil shot on March 31, 2011 and has been ill ever since. Martinez contacted Norma Erickson, President of SANE Vax Inc. via email to express her frustration and concerns that the Gardasil children are afflicted with a ‘nameless condition,’ instead of an official primary diagnosis. She wrote:

“Of course, there is the familiar and vague ‘adverse reaction to the Gardasil vaccine’ or worse ‘possible adverse reaction to the Gardasil vaccine’ or ‘condition of unknown etiology’ which no one understands and few believe in. There are other diagnoses for conditions that result from the adverse reaction to Gardasil — Lupus, neuropathy, migraines, chronic fatigue…of unknown etiology-you know that the endless list goes on and on. However, these are all SECONDARY conditions and diagnoses!

“In order for our children’s illnesses to be legitimized and ultimately a cure or treatment to be found we must have an official primary diagnosis. And that primary diagnosis must officially and directly be tied to the Gardasil injection. It MUST have a name! Furthermore, a treatment protocol must be designed. We must no longer settle for a nameless condition with no standard of treatment.

“I am sure that at different times we all call our kids’ illness different names. I believe that it makes their illness less believable, even and sometimes especially, for them. It makes their voices smaller. It makes their lives harder. It sends the wrong message to the world. It does not further their cause.

“Just think, if your child had Diabetes would you tell people that they had an adverse reaction to sugar? If your child had asthma would you just say they had an adverse reaction to allergens in the air? We need to name our kids’ illness.

“Because we have already had to do so much of the research and treatment and lifesaving for our children on our own, let’s not wait for the medical community, the drug company or the government to come up with an official diagnosis name. Let’s determine a name for their condition on our own! Let’s all call it one condition. Let’s use it in our daily lives with our child, our doctors, our family and friends, in our correspondence, on our websites, in our emails, everywhere. Let’s give our kids some power back by legitimizing their illness. Let’s get the word out that our kids really are sick and their sickness has a name-it’s legitimate!”


SANE Vax Inc. agrees with Martinez’s astute observations – and we support her demand that adverse reactions from the HPV vaccines not only be named but used universally by medical consumers, educators, researchers, medical professionals, government health agencies, politicians and the media.
SANE Vax Inc. is announcing from this time forward adverse reactions from Merck’s HPV 4 Gardasil now be known as Post-Gardasil Syndrome (PGS) and GlaxoSmithKline’s HPV 2 Cervarix be known as Post-Cervarix Syndrome (PCS).

PGS & PCS will be applied to the reported adverse conditions from the HPV vaccines whose symptoms include but are not limited to the following conditions:

Post Gardasil Syndrome & Post-Cervarix Syndrome
Adverse Reactions



Parents and advocates around the world are uniting to stop this global vaccine program threatening the lives and health of their adolescent children. If you know of someone who already suffers from PGS or PCS, please have them contact SANE Vax Inc. at info@sanevax.org. Governments of the world need to know medical consumers are now demanding safe, affordable, effective and necessary vaccinations. Gardasil does not meet any of the above requirements. Governments of the world must also be held accountable for damaging the health and well being of the children of their constituents.

Source:
1. MedScape Reference – http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/202158-overview
2. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System VAERS ID 437735
3. May 2006 VRBPAC Report on Gardasil –http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf
4. National Vaccine Information Center MedAlerts – http://medalerts.org/analysis/archives/367