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More research needed on HPV shots
12/24/08
So the top dog, the director of the giant Merck Pharmaceuticals, must have felt threatened and insecure to find out that Audrey Jensen had written to some newspapers in Alberta re: what she considered were valid concerns re: the safety of the HPV shots (called Gardasil) for young girls.
The Merck spokesman wrote to one of these Alberta papers on Nov. 27 with the message that Jensen seemed entirely wrong in her views and he would undertake to convince us that the HPV shot to prevent cervical cancer for young girls is both safe and effective.
Jensen should receive plaudits for her tenacity in fighting for an important cause and it’s about time some of us came forward to support her.
I have been following the vaccine arena closely for five years and have a few comments about Merck.
So the mighty Merck is now fighting back.
It needs the zillions of dollars required to continue paying off the victims of the Thalidomide vaccine, which was a vaccine to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women.
These victims were born missing limbs and with even worse deformities.
Merck’s last wonder drug, Vioxx, to relieve people from arthritis, was pulled from the market in 2002, after contributing for five years to 24,785 heart attacks and sudden deaths.
Merck’s record is not the best.
A group called Judicial Watch requested and obtained, under the Freedom of Information Act, all of Merck’s own records that were contained therein which concerned Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.
This happened only after they filed a lawsuit Oct./07 to compel record production. The records were very revealing but space permits mentioning only two of these findings.
It was revealed that the controversial HPV vaccine is still in the testing stage and that it is deemed extremely dangerous and that it was released in that state.
The final submission date for release was to be Sept. 31, 2009 and yet it is already being administered to thousands of young girls and women.
Highly suspect, says the report.
Merck’s claim that Gardasil is safe has been deemed highly questionable in the report.
Among the records produced to Judicial Watch were 8,864 reports from VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Report System) indicating, there had been 18 deaths linked to Gardasil.
There were also reports of miscarriages, seizures, paralysis and even blindness.
Merck’s spokesman, in his letter to an Alberta newspaper, claims the HPV vaccine is effective in preventing cervical cancer in young girls.
Health Canada differs.
According to cancer research the average age for developing cervical cancer is about 45 years. Trials for HPV have only been running for six and a half years.
Reliable sources indicate Merck’s vaccine potency declines after four years – and out goes any evidence of vaccination potency in preventing cervical cancer in young girls.
Other evidence going on behind the scenes in the report is shocking.
The shortened version of the thousands of pages of the Judicial Watch, 20 pages, is available on the line at www.judicialwatch.org/search/node/hpv.
Conspicuous by its absence is any rebuttal from Merck’s director regarding a finding which has been quoted as reportedly found published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which states ‘The current HPV vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer, carries a risk of allergic reactions that is up to 20 times more likely than any other school-based vaccine.”
To the Merck director, who wrote to the Alberta newspaper, -. When concerned parents ask about the unknown, long-term effects of Gardasil on young girls they don’t want to be told to trust the future on recommendations from the government, schools and HPV manufacturers.
They want to know your missing data.
You close your letter by asking readers to consult their physicians to obtain accurate info about the safety of Gardasil.
If doctors happen to think HPV shots are safe, they should either do more research or be held accountable for perpetuating such fiction given the strong evidence presented.
Barb Tanner
Red Deer
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