Personal Injury Law

Doctor's Orders

Take a look at 6697 reports of issues with the HPVR vaccine, familiarly known as Gardasil. Those are a lot of reports, especially as it is a known fact that not all people follow up with reporting their reactions.

Did you have a reaction from your Gardasil inoculation? If so, l want to know about it.

Now, bear in mind that these reactions include developing hives or a big red spot at the site of the vaccination. In fact, they include pregnancy, headache, dizziness, pain, fainting, shaking, loss of consciousness, pallor, fever, flu, dry eyes--and that is just on the first page. Database reports run the gamut. Ok, to be completely fair, the pregnancy was a "false pregnancy report" apparently caused by the vaccine. Dizziness fainting and pain are not unexpected for anyone with any kind of doctor phobia. (And I'd like to know what is NOT natural about having symptoms of dread about strange people in white coats poking you with sharp needles?)

But to get back to the topic--you can revisit the reports and find 103 events where HPV4 reactions are considered life-threatening. Life threatening reports are a whole other thing. There were some anaphylactic reactions that were life-threatening, and at least 5 deaths--though it isn't always clear from the report what caused some of those deaths.

But let's never mind all that.

Let's go back to the beginning of Gardasil. Let's go back to Dr. Diane Harper. If you aren't familiar with her, Harper is the Dartmouth Medical school doctor who helped develop Gardasil. If anyone is an expert on the vaccine, it is she. What does SHE think of how Gardasil is being marketed as a cancer preventative? She's not a happy camper.

Take at a couple of quotes from this FW Daily News article by CINDY BEVINGTON.
Not only does Harper say that it is silly for states to be mandating Gardasil for younger girls. She says, "Giving it to 11-year-olds is a great big public health experiment." It isn't helpful and it might be harmful.

Furthermore, she says the same thing I have been saying all along.

"There also is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue."

Shouldn't we be considering safety first? But, remember that Dr. Diane Harper is not a Marketing Whiz. She's just one of the scientists who created the vaccine which is effective against 4 of 20 strains of HPV. In her opinion, the vaccine is not for 9 year old girls. (Go on, read the article.)

Harper is also concerned about the adults. She goes on to say, "Also, the public needs to know that with vaccinated women and women who still get Pap smears (which test for abnormal cells that can lead to cancer), some of them will still get cervical cancer."

What? Did I hear that right? Merck has been telling us the vaccine is supposed to make us all "ONE LESS." You know Merck. Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that tells the world it is all about putting patients first. But if that is the case, why is this vaccine aimed at an age group not recommended by one of the vaccine's developers; and why is it acting as if it has found the preventative for cancer?

Maybe we need one less Pharmaceutical company. Or at least one less Marketing Department.

Full post as published by The Brockovich Report on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).