“Parents and women must know that deaths occurred,” Harper tells CBS NEWS. “Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in Dr. Slade’s work, one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC, leaving the parents of the deceased teenagers in despair that the CDC is ignoring the very rare but real occurrences that need not have happened if parents were given information stating that there are real, but small risks of death surrounding the administration of Gardasil.” She also worries that Merck’s aggressive marketing of the vaccine may have given women a false sense of security. “The future expectations women hold because they have received free doses of Gardasil purchased by philanthropic foundations, by public health agencies or covered by insurance is the true threat to cervical cancer in the future. Should women stop Pap screening after vaccination, the cervical cancer rate will actually increase per year. Should women believe this is preventive for all cancers — something never stated, but often inferred by many in the population — a reduction in all health care will compound our current health crisis. Should Gardasil not be effective for more than 15 years, the most costly public health experiment in cancer control will have failed miserably.” Harper notes that her concern for the vaccine’s deadly side effects applies only to women in the Western world. ”Of course, in developing countries where there is no safety Pap screening for women repeatedly over their lifetimes, the risks of serious adverse events may be acceptable as the incidence rate of cervical cancer is five to 12 times higher than in the US, dwarfing the risk of death reported after Gardasil.” UPDATE #2: THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER HAS CONFIRMED TWO VIROLOGISTS, STEPHEN KRAHLING AND JOAN WLOCHOWSKI HAVE FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THEIR FORMER EMPLOYER AND VACCINE MANUFACTURER MERCK. NVIC WRITES: “THE LAWSUIT ALLEGES THAT MERCK DEFRAUDED THE U.S. FOR OVER 10 YEARS BY OVERSTATING THE MMR VACCINE’S EFFECTIVENESS. THE VIROLOGISTS CLAIM IN THEIR LAWSUIT THAT THEY ‘WITNESSED FIRSTHAND THE IMPROPER TESTING AND DATA FALSIFICATION IN WHICH MERCK ENGAGED TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE THE VACCINE’S EFFICACY FINDINGS.” NVIC PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER, BARBARA LOE FISHER, WARNS OF THE DISTURBINGLY COZY RELATIONSHIP AND OVERWHELMING CONFLICT OF INTEREST BETWEEN FEDERAL AGENCIES CHARGED WITH VACCINE SAFETY OVERSIGHT (SUCH AS THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL) AND VACCINE MANUFACTURERS. MERCK’S GLOBAL VACCINE SALES TOTAL MORE THAN $20 BILLION A YEAR. As the world’s pharmaceutical giants continue to be driven less by moral accountability and more by profit and shareholder-driven bottom lines, we are going to see more and more products such as this vaccine which are marketed as “essential to one’s survival.” While some vaccines are indeed essential, such as vaccines for polio and measles, the HPV vaccine is a new beast entirely. To learn more about how pharmaceutical giants are putting profits ahead of ethics you need to watch FRONTLINE’s terrifying new documentary “Hunting The Nightmare Bacteria.”
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:17:42 +0000
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