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Imagine your state legislature passing a law requiring everyone in your state
to purchase a ticket on United Airlines next year. Ridiculous! Right? What if
the legislature required state officials to promote a specific company - and
purchase its product. Or even used our tax dollars to create a database of every
man, woman and child in your state to track whether they had purchased a product
from a specific company? This would be outrageous! When government passes laws
requiring citizens to purchase specific products or services from specific
companies, that is corporatism. Incredibly, many state legislatures are currently
debating a series of bills that would require the promotion and purchase of a
product called Gardasil, patented by Merck.
Gardasil is a vaccine developed to prevent 4 types of the human papillomavirous
(HPV), which have been linked to cervical cancer, genital warts, and
precancerous / dysplastic lesions of the cervix, vagina, and vulva.
Surely Gardasil must have been proven safe and effective! Right? Wrong:
- In June 2006, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) criticized the
FDA (See http://www.nvic.org/PressReleases/pr62706gardasil.htm) for "Fast
Tracking" the licensure of the Gardasil (Merck only studied Gardasil in fewer than
1200 girls under age 16 in pre-licensure trials).
- On February 21, 2007, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) released
a new analysis of the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
reports of serious health problems following HPV vaccination (using Merck's
Gardasil) during the last six months of 2006
(<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.nvic.org/Diseases/HPV/pr022107HPV.htm)">[url]https://www.nvic.org/Diseases/HPV/pr022107HPV.htm)[/url]</a>. Out of the 385 individual
GARDASIL adverse event reports made to VAERS, two-thirds required additional
medical care and about one-third of all reports were for children 16-years-old and
under, with nearly 25 percent of those children having received simultaneously
one or more of the 18 vaccines that Merck did NOT study in combination with
Gardasil.
- On February 7, 2005 NVIC Health Policy Analyst Vicky Debold, RN, Ph.D. was
quoted (http://www.drugnewswire.com/12489/) stating: "The most frequent serious
health events after GARDASIL shots are neurological symptoms.These young girls
are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision, slurred
speech, fainting, involuntary contraction of limbs (seizures), muscle weakness,
tingling and numbness in the hands and feet and joint pain. Some of the girls
have lost consciousness during what appears to be seizures." Debold added "The
manufacturer product insert should include mention of syncopal episodes,
seizures and Guillain-Barre Syndrome so doctors and parents are aware these vaccine
adverse responses have been associated with the vaccine."
- Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum and, although aluminum adjuvants have
been used in vaccines for decades, they have NEVER been tested for safety in
clinical trials. However, animal and human studies have shown that aluminum can
cause nerve cell death and that vaccine aluminum adjuvants can allow aluminum to
enter the brain
- According to the Gardasil package insert; "the duration of immunity is not
known" boosters may be needed. In other words, the long-term effectiveness of
Gardasil has NOT been proven (because the vaccine is so new).
- Although there are over 60 different strains of human papillomavirous (Imagine the Colorado legislature passing a law requiring everyone in Colorado
to purchase a ticket on United Airlines next year. Ridiculous! Right? What if
the legislature required state officials to promote a specific company - and
purchase its product. Or even used our tax dollars to create a database of every
man, woman and child in Colorado to track whether they had purchased a product
from a specific company? This would be outrageous! When government passes laws
requiring citizens to purchase specific products or services from specific
companies, that is corporatism. Incredibly, the Colorado legislature is currently
debating a series of bills that would require the promotion and purchase of a
product called Gardasil, patented by Merck.
Gardasil is a vaccine developed to prevent 4 types of the human papillomavirous
(HPV), which have been linked to cervical cancer, genital warts, and
precancerous / dysplastic lesions of the cervix, vagina, and vulva.
Surely Gardasil must have been proven safe and effective! Right? Wrong:
- In June 2006, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) criticized the
FDA (See http://www.nvic.org/PressReleases/pr62706gardasil.htm) for "Fast
Tracking" the licensure of the Gardasil (Merck only studied Gardasil in fewer than
1200 girls under age 16 in pre-licensure trials).
- On February 21, 2007, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) released
a new analysis of the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
reports of serious health problems following HPV vaccination (using Merck's
Gardasil) during the last six months of 2006
(<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.nvic.org/Diseases/HPV/pr022107HPV.htm)">[url]https://www.nvic.org/Diseases/HPV/pr022107HPV.htm)[/url]</a>. Out of the 385 individual
GARDASIL adverse event reports made to VAERS, two-thirds required additional
medical care and about one-third of all reports were for children 16-years-old and
under, with nearly 25 percent of those children having received simultaneously
one or more of the 18 vaccines that Merck did NOT study in combination with
Gardasil.
- On February 7, 2005 NVIC Health Policy Analyst Vicky Debold, RN, Ph.D. was
quoted (http://www.drugnewswire.com/12489/) stating: "The most frequent serious
health events after GARDASIL shots are neurological symptoms.These young girls
are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision, slurred
speech, fainting, involuntary contraction of limbs (seizures), muscle weakness,
tingling and numbness in the hands and feet and joint pain. Some of the girls
have lost consciousness during what appears to be seizures." Debold added "The
manufacturer product insert should include mention of syncopal episodes,
seizures and Guillain-Barre Syndrome so doctors and parents are aware these vaccine
adverse responses have been associated with the vaccine."
- Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum and, although aluminum adjuvants have
been used in vaccines for decades, they have NEVER been tested for safety in
clinical trials. However, animal and human studies have shown that aluminum can
cause nerve cell death and that vaccine aluminum adjuvants can allow aluminum to
enter the brain
- According to the Gardasil package insert; "the duration of immunity is not
known" boosters may be needed. In other words, the long-term effectiveness of
Gardasil has NOT been proven (because the vaccine is so new).
- Although there are over 60 different strains of human papillomavirous (HPV),
Gardasil prevents infections from only four strains of HPV (HPV types 6, 11, 16
and 18 - which cause roughly 70 percent of all cervical cancers). Cancer
screenings will still be required because the vaccine does not cover all types of the
virus. Young girls may avoid getting a pap smear thinking the vaccine protects
them.
),
Gardasil prevents infections from only four strains of HPV (HPV types 6, 11, 16
and 18 - which cause roughly 70 percent of all cervical cancers). Cancer
screenings will still be required because the vaccine does not cover all types of the
virus. Young girls may avoid getting a pap smear thinking the vaccine protects
them.
Colorado House Bill example
Senate Bill SB-80 (amended) states: No female student shall be admitted to the
sixth grade in any school in Colorado unless she submits acceptable evidence to
the school that she has been vaccinated for Human Papillomavirus (HPV). The
bill also requires ALL female students between the ages of eleven and eighteen and
her parent or guardian to be given information about the availability of
Gardasil (i.e., marketing for Merck). IF after receiving the marketing material
regarding Gardasil, the student's parent or guardian may elect for the student not
to receive the vaccine. Fortunately, SB 80 is currently stalled in the Senate
Appropriations committee.
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