What has cervical cancer vaccine done to our girls?

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What Has The HPV Cancer Vaccine Done To Our Girls?

The Sunday Times

October 4, 2009

What has cervical cancer drug done to our girls?

After one child’s death, we talk to parents who blame the vaccination for

serious illnesses in their daughters

Foggo, Rosie Millard

Clare Ramagge says her daughter has

Suffered from chronic fatigue since having the jab;

She is among pafrents taking legal action against

Its maker

A year ago Ramagge was a happy, sporty teenager, a high

achiever at school and a tournament-level tennis player. Today she’s a

13-year-old crippled with chronic fatigue syndrome who has been laid up

in bed for seven months and needs her mother’s help to tackle such basic

tasks as brushing her hair and getting dressed.

Last September , along with the rest of the girls in her class at

St Bede’s school in Redhill, Surrey, received the first of three

inoculations of Cervarix, the cervical cancer vaccine. As part of a

nationwide programme the jab is being offered to every girl in the UK

aged 12 to 13 to try to prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted

human papillomavirus, which is linked to most cases of cervical cancer.

By 2011 every girl under 18 will have been offered the jab.

A few days later “had quite severe joint pains”, says her mother

Clare who, with her husband , runs a car sales business in Reigate.

“We took her to see doctors, who asked me if anything different had

happened in her life. The only thing that had changed was that she had

had the jab.”

After a second inoculation in November she felt worse and by March she

was on crutches. Nevertheless, she was given a third dose that month.

Within hours she was “extremely ill”, says Clare: “She hasn’t been to

school for seven months. I have to help her do most things, sit up in

bed, brush her teeth, tend to all her basic needs. I have become her

carer. My husband is having to run the business alone.”

Clare is now taking part in a class action suit against Glaxo

Kline, the maker of Cervarix, along with 10 other sets of parents whose

daughters have suffered adverse reactions to the vaccine since the

programme began last autumn.

“We are being contacted every day by new people,” says Todd, a

solicitor of Hodge and in London, who is handling the case.

“The basis of the claim is under the Consumer Protection Act, implemented

after the thalidomide scandal. Consumers are entitled to redress if they

suffered injury as a result of a defective product and this turns on a

reasonable expectation of safety. As the manufacturers themselves give a

big long list of adverse effects, presumably they accept that reactions

will occur.”

Cervarix burst into the headlines last week when Morton, 14, died

two hours after being given the jab at the Blue Coat Church of England

school in Coventry. After a post-mortem examination revealed that she had

a previously undetected tumour in her chest which a Home Office

pathologist described as “so severe that death could have arisen at any

point”, health officials in the city declared the vaccination programme

would resume.

Glaxo Kline, it seemed, was off the hook. Yet privately some

National Health Service doctors are of the view that the injection might

well have been a catalyst. Certainly Clare Ramagge says that consultants

who have examined have indicated that the vaccination was a

trigger for her collapse. “It is being made clear that in children who

have got any condition that could be triggered by this jab, it will

trigger it,” says Clare, who points out that the consent letter

had brought home from school mentioned only the most common side

effects.

, another of the parents who has joined the class action,

thinks the vaccine is to blame for her daughter’s deterioration. On May

16, Stacey, 18, went to the local sports centre in Ringsfield, West

Midlands, for her third and final inoculation. It was the last day

would see her daughter behaving normally.

“That evening she went out with my sister and brother-in-law to a party.

She was very agitated all night. The next night she had a panic attack.

She kept saying she couldn’t breathe, she was hyperventilating.” Two days

later she suffered an epileptic fit and was admitted to hospital. “They

told us it was sleep deprivation. But the seizures continued. We took her

straight back and she was admitted for eight weeks.”

It is thought Stacey is suffering from encephalitis. She is now in a

brain rehabilitation unit in Birmingham. “To me it’s like looking at a

shell,” says . “She has a sort of zombie look in her eyes. She walks

with her head down and her arms pulled in. It’s turned our lives

around.”

Paige Brennan, 13, from Telford, remains seriously ill at Birmingham

children’s hospital, six months after suffering brain damage within five

days of being given the last vaccination in her course of three. She has

been unable to speak or feed without a tube and has only recently been

trying to communicate.

Her parents say they were not made aware of any side effects associated

with Cervarix. If they had been, they would never have allowed her to

have it.

“She had nothing wrong with her before. She was healthy. Soon after

having this injection she collapsed with a seizure,” says her mother

Margaret Brennan, 46. “I’m there every day at the hospital. It can take

two years for the brain to recover, so all we can do right now is

hope.”

Such stories are certain to alarm parents who otherwise might have been

satisfied that their daughters were being properly protected against

cervical cancer in later years. The death of Jade Goody, the reality TV

star, led to a rise in young women wishing to have the vaccine. Now

Morton’s death — and emerging news of the other claims — is

throwing that into doubt.

As with the MMR jab, Cervarix is not a one-shot treatment. It has to be

administered on three separate occasions over six months. So parents

whose daughters have had the first injection must now have two more

moments of worry as their daughters go forward in the scheme.

Doctors want to vaccinate as many young girls as possible before they

become sexually active, so they will be protected during their teenage

years. It is thought the vaccine is effective for 10 years, thus

potentially protecting women until they are 22 or 23, after which time

sexual habits typically tend to calm down.

Should parents be worried? Jim Boddington, a GP in Hackney, east London,

says that in his view Cervarix is a safe bet. “It’s been widely trialled

and produced excellent data,” he says. “When you roll out a programme of

vaccinations to millions, a minority will develop symptoms. Some would

have developed those symptoms anyway and people are very quick to make

causal affiliations.”

This spring the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency showed that of

the 700,000 schoolgirls vaccinated last year, more than 1,300 had

officially reported an adverse reaction, ranging from convulsions and

nausea to pain in the joints. That is a percentage of 0.2%. Todd

says he has seen slightly higher figures reported and acknowledges that

the risk seems “relatively low” but points out that if you were one of

the hundreds affected, you might feel differently.

Certainly some are now deciding it is a risk too far. Kirstene Glynn, 33,

a community carer from Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, will not let her

daughter Hayley, 15, have the vaccine: “I refused because when I found

out online about the vaccine, all I found out was horrendous. And the

more I discovered, the worse it got. There are all these side effects

which we are not being told about.” Such as? “Seizures. Migraine. Muscle

pain. Obviously in Morton’s case she was killed by her tumour,

but in my view you shouldn’t give it to children with underlying

conditions. If she hadn’t had the jab she might be alive now.”

This is not to say that Kirstene is anti-vaccines per se. Her three

daughters have all had the MMR jab “because the benefits outweigh the

risk. And you are more likely to catch measles than cervical cancer,

aren’t you? I have talked to Hayley about her sexual health and she knows

all about condoms and having regular smears. You still have to have

smears, you know, whether you have been inoculated or not”.

Yet Kirstene had her daughter at the age of 17. Surely she should know

about the dangers posed for young women by having sex early: “I wouldn’t

recommend having a child at 17 and I certainly don’t want it for Hayley.

She’s a clever girl and I want her to go to university. But girls are

going to do what they are going to do, aren’t they? They just do what

they want.”

Maybe that’s the problem, says Millard, a Hampshire GP. “There is

a view that simply inoculating young women is taking the line of least

resistance, a sort of liberal agenda which has been peddled since the

1960s with pretty disastrous effects,” he says. “We have more teenage

pregnancies than anywhere else in Europe, and the amount of STD [sexually

transmitted disease] in this country now is frankly out of

control.”

Why not rethink the whole landscape of teenage sex, he suggests: “There

are plenty of other things one could do which would reduce the risk of

contracting cervical cancer, such as encouraging young women to start

sexual activity later and discouraging promiscuity. A giant vaccination

programme is a sort of tacit agreement that sexual activity for teenage

girls is all right.”

is in no doubt. Asked whether she would advise parents to let

their daughter have the jab, she says: “I don’t want it to happen to

anyone else. I want the programme to be stopped in schools. They are only

kids and they are being ushered into a scheme like cattle. And they are

too young. It is ridiculous to expect that young girls of 12 or 13 will

be having sex anyway. They are young and very vulnerable.”

Vaccine figures

By 2011 all girls under 18 will have been offered the Cervarix

vaccine

1.4m children have taken part in the vaccination programme since it began

last September

The vaccine is delivered in three doses over six months nThe immunisation

of 12- and 13-year-olds costs taxpayers £100m a year; the catch-up

campaign for girls under 18 costs £200m a year

The vaccine protects against the two strains of HPV (16 and 18) that

cause cervical cancer in seven out of 10 cases

Each year there are 899 deaths in the UK from cancer of the cervix

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm

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What Has The HPV Cancer Vaccine Done To Our Girls?

The Sunday Times

October 4, 2009

What has cervical cancer drug done to our girls?

After one child’s death, we talk to parents who blame the vaccination for

serious illnesses in their daughters

Foggo, Rosie Millard

Clare Ramagge says her daughter has

Suffered from chronic fatigue since having the jab;

She is among pafrents taking legal action against

Its maker

A year ago Ramagge was a happy, sporty teenager, a high

achiever at school and a tournament-level tennis player. Today she’s a

13-year-old crippled with chronic fatigue syndrome who has been laid up

in bed for seven months and needs her mother’s help to tackle such basic

tasks as brushing her hair and getting dressed.

Last September , along with the rest of the girls in her class at

St Bede’s school in Redhill, Surrey, received the first of three

inoculations of Cervarix, the cervical cancer vaccine. As part of a

nationwide programme the jab is being offered to every girl in the UK

aged 12 to 13 to try to prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted

human papillomavirus, which is linked to most cases of cervical cancer.

By 2011 every girl under 18 will have been offered the jab.

A few days later “had quite severe joint pains”, says her mother

Clare who, with her husband , runs a car sales business in Reigate.

“We took her to see doctors, who asked me if anything different had

happened in her life. The only thing that had changed was that she had

had the jab.”

After a second inoculation in November she felt worse and by March she

was on crutches. Nevertheless, she was given a third dose that month.

Within hours she was “extremely ill”, says Clare: “She hasn’t been to

school for seven months. I have to help her do most things, sit up in

bed, brush her teeth, tend to all her basic needs. I have become her

carer. My husband is having to run the business alone.”

Clare is now taking part in a class action suit against Glaxo

Kline, the maker of Cervarix, along with 10 other sets of parents whose

daughters have suffered adverse reactions to the vaccine since the

programme began last autumn.

“We are being contacted every day by new people,” says Todd, a

solicitor of Hodge and in London, who is handling the case.

“The basis of the claim is under the Consumer Protection Act, implemented

after the thalidomide scandal. Consumers are entitled to redress if they

suffered injury as a result of a defective product and this turns on a

reasonable expectation of safety. As the manufacturers themselves give a

big long list of adverse effects, presumably they accept that reactions

will occur.”

Cervarix burst into the headlines last week when Morton, 14, died

two hours after being given the jab at the Blue Coat Church of England

school in Coventry. After a post-mortem examination revealed that she had

a previously undetected tumour in her chest which a Home Office

pathologist described as “so severe that death could have arisen at any

point”, health officials in the city declared the vaccination programme

would resume.

Glaxo Kline, it seemed, was off the hook. Yet privately some

National Health Service doctors are of the view that the injection might

well have been a catalyst. Certainly Clare Ramagge says that consultants

who have examined have indicated that the vaccination was a

trigger for her collapse. “It is being made clear that in children who

have got any condition that could be triggered by this jab, it will

trigger it,” says Clare, who points out that the consent letter

had brought home from school mentioned only the most common side

effects.

, another of the parents who has joined the class action,

thinks the vaccine is to blame for her daughter’s deterioration. On May

16, Stacey, 18, went to the local sports centre in Ringsfield, West

Midlands, for her third and final inoculation. It was the last day

would see her daughter behaving normally.

“That evening she went out with my sister and brother-in-law to a party.

She was very agitated all night. The next night she had a panic attack.

She kept saying she couldn’t breathe, she was hyperventilating.” Two days

later she suffered an epileptic fit and was admitted to hospital. “They

told us it was sleep deprivation. But the seizures continued. We took her

straight back and she was admitted for eight weeks.”

It is thought Stacey is suffering from encephalitis. She is now in a

brain rehabilitation unit in Birmingham. “To me it’s like looking at a

shell,” says . “She has a sort of zombie look in her eyes. She walks

with her head down and her arms pulled in. It’s turned our lives

around.”

Paige Brennan, 13, from Telford, remains seriously ill at Birmingham

children’s hospital, six months after suffering brain damage within five

days of being given the last vaccination in her course of three. She has

been unable to speak or feed without a tube and has only recently been

trying to communicate.

Her parents say they were not made aware of any side effects associated

with Cervarix. If they had been, they would never have allowed her to

have it.

“She had nothing wrong with her before. She was healthy. Soon after

having this injection she collapsed with a seizure,” says her mother

Margaret Brennan, 46. “I’m there every day at the hospital. It can take

two years for the brain to recover, so all we can do right now is

hope.”

Such stories are certain to alarm parents who otherwise might have been

satisfied that their daughters were being properly protected against

cervical cancer in later years. The death of Jade Goody, the reality TV

star, led to a rise in young women wishing to have the vaccine. Now

Morton’s death — and emerging news of the other claims — is

throwing that into doubt.

As with the MMR jab, Cervarix is not a one-shot treatment. It has to be

administered on three separate occasions over six months. So parents

whose daughters have had the first injection must now have two more

moments of worry as their daughters go forward in the scheme.

Doctors want to vaccinate as many young girls as possible before they

become sexually active, so they will be protected during their teenage

years. It is thought the vaccine is effective for 10 years, thus

potentially protecting women until they are 22 or 23, after which time

sexual habits typically tend to calm down.

Should parents be worried? Jim Boddington, a GP in Hackney, east London,

says that in his view Cervarix is a safe bet. “It’s been widely trialled

and produced excellent data,” he says. “When you roll out a programme of

vaccinations to millions, a minority will develop symptoms. Some would

have developed those symptoms anyway and people are very quick to make

causal affiliations.”

This spring the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency showed that of

the 700,000 schoolgirls vaccinated last year, more than 1,300 had

officially reported an adverse reaction, ranging from convulsions and

nausea to pain in the joints. That is a percentage of 0.2%. Todd

says he has seen slightly higher figures reported and acknowledges that

the risk seems “relatively low” but points out that if you were one of

the hundreds affected, you might feel differently.

Certainly some are now deciding it is a risk too far. Kirstene Glynn, 33,

a community carer from Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, will not let her

daughter Hayley, 15, have the vaccine: “I refused because when I found

out online about the vaccine, all I found out was horrendous. And the

more I discovered, the worse it got. There are all these side effects

which we are not being told about.” Such as? “Seizures. Migraine. Muscle

pain. Obviously in Morton’s case she was killed by her tumour,

but in my view you shouldn’t give it to children with underlying

conditions. If she hadn’t had the jab she might be alive now.”

This is not to say that Kirstene is anti-vaccines per se. Her three

daughters have all had the MMR jab “because the benefits outweigh the

risk. And you are more likely to catch measles than cervical cancer,

aren’t you? I have talked to Hayley about her sexual health and she knows

all about condoms and having regular smears. You still have to have

smears, you know, whether you have been inoculated or not”.

Yet Kirstene had her daughter at the age of 17. Surely she should know

about the dangers posed for young women by having sex early: “I wouldn’t

recommend having a child at 17 and I certainly don’t want it for Hayley.

She’s a clever girl and I want her to go to university. But girls are

going to do what they are going to do, aren’t they? They just do what

they want.”

Maybe that’s the problem, says Millard, a Hampshire GP. “There is

a view that simply inoculating young women is taking the line of least

resistance, a sort of liberal agenda which has been peddled since the

1960s with pretty disastrous effects,” he says. “We have more teenage

pregnancies than anywhere else in Europe, and the amount of STD [sexually

transmitted disease] in this country now is frankly out of

control.”

Why not rethink the whole landscape of teenage sex, he suggests: “There

are plenty of other things one could do which would reduce the risk of

contracting cervical cancer, such as encouraging young women to start

sexual activity later and discouraging promiscuity. A giant vaccination

programme is a sort of tacit agreement that sexual activity for teenage

girls is all right.”

is in no doubt. Asked whether she would advise parents to let

their daughter have the jab, she says: “I don’t want it to happen to

anyone else. I want the programme to be stopped in schools. They are only

kids and they are being ushered into a scheme like cattle. And they are

too young. It is ridiculous to expect that young girls of 12 or 13 will

be having sex anyway. They are young and very vulnerable.”

Vaccine figures

By 2011 all girls under 18 will have been offered the Cervarix

vaccine

1.4m children have taken part in the vaccination programme since it began

last September

The vaccine is delivered in three doses over six months nThe immunisation

of 12- and 13-year-olds costs taxpayers £100m a year; the catch-up

campaign for girls under 18 costs £200m a year

The vaccine protects against the two strains of HPV (16 and 18) that

cause cervical cancer in seven out of 10 cases

Each year there are 899 deaths in the UK from cancer of the cervix

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start October 28 & 29

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccineclass.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm

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What Has The HPV Cancer Vaccine Done To Our Girls?

The Sunday Times

October 4, 2009

What has cervical cancer drug done to our girls?

After one child’s death, we talk to parents who blame the vaccination for

serious illnesses in their daughters

Foggo, Rosie Millard

Clare Ramagge says her daughter has

Suffered from chronic fatigue since having the jab;

She is among pafrents taking legal action against

Its maker

A year ago Ramagge was a happy, sporty teenager, a high

achiever at school and a tournament-level tennis player. Today she’s a

13-year-old crippled with chronic fatigue syndrome who has been laid up

in bed for seven months and needs her mother’s help to tackle such basic

tasks as brushing her hair and getting dressed.

Last September , along with the rest of the girls in her class at

St Bede’s school in Redhill, Surrey, received the first of three

inoculations of Cervarix, the cervical cancer vaccine. As part of a

nationwide programme the jab is being offered to every girl in the UK

aged 12 to 13 to try to prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted

human papillomavirus, which is linked to most cases of cervical cancer.

By 2011 every girl under 18 will have been offered the jab.

A few days later “had quite severe joint pains”, says her mother

Clare who, with her husband , runs a car sales business in Reigate.

“We took her to see doctors, who asked me if anything different had

happened in her life. The only thing that had changed was that she had

had the jab.”

After a second inoculation in November she felt worse and by March she

was on crutches. Nevertheless, she was given a third dose that month.

Within hours she was “extremely ill”, says Clare: “She hasn’t been to

school for seven months. I have to help her do most things, sit up in

bed, brush her teeth, tend to all her basic needs. I have become her

carer. My husband is having to run the business alone.”

Clare is now taking part in a class action suit against Glaxo

Kline, the maker of Cervarix, along with 10 other sets of parents whose

daughters have suffered adverse reactions to the vaccine since the

programme began last autumn.

“We are being contacted every day by new people,” says Todd, a

solicitor of Hodge and in London, who is handling the case.

“The basis of the claim is under the Consumer Protection Act, implemented

after the thalidomide scandal. Consumers are entitled to redress if they

suffered injury as a result of a defective product and this turns on a

reasonable expectation of safety. As the manufacturers themselves give a

big long list of adverse effects, presumably they accept that reactions

will occur.”

Cervarix burst into the headlines last week when Morton, 14, died

two hours after being given the jab at the Blue Coat Church of England

school in Coventry. After a post-mortem examination revealed that she had

a previously undetected tumour in her chest which a Home Office

pathologist described as “so severe that death could have arisen at any

point”, health officials in the city declared the vaccination programme

would resume.

Glaxo Kline, it seemed, was off the hook. Yet privately some

National Health Service doctors are of the view that the injection might

well have been a catalyst. Certainly Clare Ramagge says that consultants

who have examined have indicated that the vaccination was a

trigger for her collapse. “It is being made clear that in children who

have got any condition that could be triggered by this jab, it will

trigger it,” says Clare, who points out that the consent letter

had brought home from school mentioned only the most common side

effects.

, another of the parents who has joined the class action,

thinks the vaccine is to blame for her daughter’s deterioration. On May

16, Stacey, 18, went to the local sports centre in Ringsfield, West

Midlands, for her third and final inoculation. It was the last day

would see her daughter behaving normally.

“That evening she went out with my sister and brother-in-law to a party.

She was very agitated all night. The next night she had a panic attack.

She kept saying she couldn’t breathe, she was hyperventilating.” Two days

later she suffered an epileptic fit and was admitted to hospital. “They

told us it was sleep deprivation. But the seizures continued. We took her

straight back and she was admitted for eight weeks.”

It is thought Stacey is suffering from encephalitis. She is now in a

brain rehabilitation unit in Birmingham. “To me it’s like looking at a

shell,” says . “She has a sort of zombie look in her eyes. She walks

with her head down and her arms pulled in. It’s turned our lives

around.”

Paige Brennan, 13, from Telford, remains seriously ill at Birmingham

children’s hospital, six months after suffering brain damage within five

days of being given the last vaccination in her course of three. She has

been unable to speak or feed without a tube and has only recently been

trying to communicate.

Her parents say they were not made aware of any side effects associated

with Cervarix. If they had been, they would never have allowed her to

have it.

“She had nothing wrong with her before. She was healthy. Soon after

having this injection she collapsed with a seizure,” says her mother

Margaret Brennan, 46. “I’m there every day at the hospital. It can take

two years for the brain to recover, so all we can do right now is

hope.”

Such stories are certain to alarm parents who otherwise might have been

satisfied that their daughters were being properly protected against

cervical cancer in later years. The death of Jade Goody, the reality TV

star, led to a rise in young women wishing to have the vaccine. Now

Morton’s death — and emerging news of the other claims — is

throwing that into doubt.

As with the MMR jab, Cervarix is not a one-shot treatment. It has to be

administered on three separate occasions over six months. So parents

whose daughters have had the first injection must now have two more

moments of worry as their daughters go forward in the scheme.

Doctors want to vaccinate as many young girls as possible before they

become sexually active, so they will be protected during their teenage

years. It is thought the vaccine is effective for 10 years, thus

potentially protecting women until they are 22 or 23, after which time

sexual habits typically tend to calm down.

Should parents be worried? Jim Boddington, a GP in Hackney, east London,

says that in his view Cervarix is a safe bet. “It’s been widely trialled

and produced excellent data,” he says. “When you roll out a programme of

vaccinations to millions, a minority will develop symptoms. Some would

have developed those symptoms anyway and people are very quick to make

causal affiliations.”

This spring the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency showed that of

the 700,000 schoolgirls vaccinated last year, more than 1,300 had

officially reported an adverse reaction, ranging from convulsions and

nausea to pain in the joints. That is a percentage of 0.2%. Todd

says he has seen slightly higher figures reported and acknowledges that

the risk seems “relatively low” but points out that if you were one of

the hundreds affected, you might feel differently.

Certainly some are now deciding it is a risk too far. Kirstene Glynn, 33,

a community carer from Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, will not let her

daughter Hayley, 15, have the vaccine: “I refused because when I found

out online about the vaccine, all I found out was horrendous. And the

more I discovered, the worse it got. There are all these side effects

which we are not being told about.” Such as? “Seizures. Migraine. Muscle

pain. Obviously in Morton’s case she was killed by her tumour,

but in my view you shouldn’t give it to children with underlying

conditions. If she hadn’t had the jab she might be alive now.”

This is not to say that Kirstene is anti-vaccines per se. Her three

daughters have all had the MMR jab “because the benefits outweigh the

risk. And you are more likely to catch measles than cervical cancer,

aren’t you? I have talked to Hayley about her sexual health and she knows

all about condoms and having regular smears. You still have to have

smears, you know, whether you have been inoculated or not”.

Yet Kirstene had her daughter at the age of 17. Surely she should know

about the dangers posed for young women by having sex early: “I wouldn’t

recommend having a child at 17 and I certainly don’t want it for Hayley.

She’s a clever girl and I want her to go to university. But girls are

going to do what they are going to do, aren’t they? They just do what

they want.”

Maybe that’s the problem, says Millard, a Hampshire GP. “There is

a view that simply inoculating young women is taking the line of least

resistance, a sort of liberal agenda which has been peddled since the

1960s with pretty disastrous effects,” he says. “We have more teenage

pregnancies than anywhere else in Europe, and the amount of STD [sexually

transmitted disease] in this country now is frankly out of

control.”

Why not rethink the whole landscape of teenage sex, he suggests: “There

are plenty of other things one could do which would reduce the risk of

contracting cervical cancer, such as encouraging young women to start

sexual activity later and discouraging promiscuity. A giant vaccination

programme is a sort of tacit agreement that sexual activity for teenage

girls is all right.”

is in no doubt. Asked whether she would advise parents to let

their daughter have the jab, she says: “I don’t want it to happen to

anyone else. I want the programme to be stopped in schools. They are only

kids and they are being ushered into a scheme like cattle. And they are

too young. It is ridiculous to expect that young girls of 12 or 13 will

be having sex anyway. They are young and very vulnerable.”

Vaccine figures

By 2011 all girls under 18 will have been offered the Cervarix

vaccine

1.4m children have taken part in the vaccination programme since it began

last September

The vaccine is delivered in three doses over six months nThe immunisation

of 12- and 13-year-olds costs taxpayers £100m a year; the catch-up

campaign for girls under 18 costs £200m a year

The vaccine protects against the two strains of HPV (16 and 18) that

cause cervical cancer in seven out of 10 cases

Each year there are 899 deaths in the UK from cancer of the cervix

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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What Has The HPV Cancer Vaccine Done To Our Girls?

The Sunday Times

October 4, 2009

What has cervical cancer drug done to our girls?

After one child’s death, we talk to parents who blame the vaccination for

serious illnesses in their daughters

Foggo, Rosie Millard

Clare Ramagge says her daughter has

Suffered from chronic fatigue since having the jab;

She is among pafrents taking legal action against

Its maker

A year ago Ramagge was a happy, sporty teenager, a high

achiever at school and a tournament-level tennis player. Today she’s a

13-year-old crippled with chronic fatigue syndrome who has been laid up

in bed for seven months and needs her mother’s help to tackle such basic

tasks as brushing her hair and getting dressed.

Last September , along with the rest of the girls in her class at

St Bede’s school in Redhill, Surrey, received the first of three

inoculations of Cervarix, the cervical cancer vaccine. As part of a

nationwide programme the jab is being offered to every girl in the UK

aged 12 to 13 to try to prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted

human papillomavirus, which is linked to most cases of cervical cancer.

By 2011 every girl under 18 will have been offered the jab.

A few days later “had quite severe joint pains”, says her mother

Clare who, with her husband , runs a car sales business in Reigate.

“We took her to see doctors, who asked me if anything different had

happened in her life. The only thing that had changed was that she had

had the jab.”

After a second inoculation in November she felt worse and by March she

was on crutches. Nevertheless, she was given a third dose that month.

Within hours she was “extremely ill”, says Clare: “She hasn’t been to

school for seven months. I have to help her do most things, sit up in

bed, brush her teeth, tend to all her basic needs. I have become her

carer. My husband is having to run the business alone.”

Clare is now taking part in a class action suit against Glaxo

Kline, the maker of Cervarix, along with 10 other sets of parents whose

daughters have suffered adverse reactions to the vaccine since the

programme began last autumn.

“We are being contacted every day by new people,” says Todd, a

solicitor of Hodge and in London, who is handling the case.

“The basis of the claim is under the Consumer Protection Act, implemented

after the thalidomide scandal. Consumers are entitled to redress if they

suffered injury as a result of a defective product and this turns on a

reasonable expectation of safety. As the manufacturers themselves give a

big long list of adverse effects, presumably they accept that reactions

will occur.”

Cervarix burst into the headlines last week when Morton, 14, died

two hours after being given the jab at the Blue Coat Church of England

school in Coventry. After a post-mortem examination revealed that she had

a previously undetected tumour in her chest which a Home Office

pathologist described as “so severe that death could have arisen at any

point”, health officials in the city declared the vaccination programme

would resume.

Glaxo Kline, it seemed, was off the hook. Yet privately some

National Health Service doctors are of the view that the injection might

well have been a catalyst. Certainly Clare Ramagge says that consultants

who have examined have indicated that the vaccination was a

trigger for her collapse. “It is being made clear that in children who

have got any condition that could be triggered by this jab, it will

trigger it,” says Clare, who points out that the consent letter

had brought home from school mentioned only the most common side

effects.

, another of the parents who has joined the class action,

thinks the vaccine is to blame for her daughter’s deterioration. On May

16, Stacey, 18, went to the local sports centre in Ringsfield, West

Midlands, for her third and final inoculation. It was the last day

would see her daughter behaving normally.

“That evening she went out with my sister and brother-in-law to a party.

She was very agitated all night. The next night she had a panic attack.

She kept saying she couldn’t breathe, she was hyperventilating.” Two days

later she suffered an epileptic fit and was admitted to hospital. “They

told us it was sleep deprivation. But the seizures continued. We took her

straight back and she was admitted for eight weeks.”

It is thought Stacey is suffering from encephalitis. She is now in a

brain rehabilitation unit in Birmingham. “To me it’s like looking at a

shell,” says . “She has a sort of zombie look in her eyes. She walks

with her head down and her arms pulled in. It’s turned our lives

around.”

Paige Brennan, 13, from Telford, remains seriously ill at Birmingham

children’s hospital, six months after suffering brain damage within five

days of being given the last vaccination in her course of three. She has

been unable to speak or feed without a tube and has only recently been

trying to communicate.

Her parents say they were not made aware of any side effects associated

with Cervarix. If they had been, they would never have allowed her to

have it.

“She had nothing wrong with her before. She was healthy. Soon after

having this injection she collapsed with a seizure,” says her mother

Margaret Brennan, 46. “I’m there every day at the hospital. It can take

two years for the brain to recover, so all we can do right now is

hope.”

Such stories are certain to alarm parents who otherwise might have been

satisfied that their daughters were being properly protected against

cervical cancer in later years. The death of Jade Goody, the reality TV

star, led to a rise in young women wishing to have the vaccine. Now

Morton’s death — and emerging news of the other claims — is

throwing that into doubt.

As with the MMR jab, Cervarix is not a one-shot treatment. It has to be

administered on three separate occasions over six months. So parents

whose daughters have had the first injection must now have two more

moments of worry as their daughters go forward in the scheme.

Doctors want to vaccinate as many young girls as possible before they

become sexually active, so they will be protected during their teenage

years. It is thought the vaccine is effective for 10 years, thus

potentially protecting women until they are 22 or 23, after which time

sexual habits typically tend to calm down.

Should parents be worried? Jim Boddington, a GP in Hackney, east London,

says that in his view Cervarix is a safe bet. “It’s been widely trialled

and produced excellent data,” he says. “When you roll out a programme of

vaccinations to millions, a minority will develop symptoms. Some would

have developed those symptoms anyway and people are very quick to make

causal affiliations.”

This spring the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency showed that of

the 700,000 schoolgirls vaccinated last year, more than 1,300 had

officially reported an adverse reaction, ranging from convulsions and

nausea to pain in the joints. That is a percentage of 0.2%. Todd

says he has seen slightly higher figures reported and acknowledges that

the risk seems “relatively low” but points out that if you were one of

the hundreds affected, you might feel differently.

Certainly some are now deciding it is a risk too far. Kirstene Glynn, 33,

a community carer from Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, will not let her

daughter Hayley, 15, have the vaccine: “I refused because when I found

out online about the vaccine, all I found out was horrendous. And the

more I discovered, the worse it got. There are all these side effects

which we are not being told about.” Such as? “Seizures. Migraine. Muscle

pain. Obviously in Morton’s case she was killed by her tumour,

but in my view you shouldn’t give it to children with underlying

conditions. If she hadn’t had the jab she might be alive now.”

This is not to say that Kirstene is anti-vaccines per se. Her three

daughters have all had the MMR jab “because the benefits outweigh the

risk. And you are more likely to catch measles than cervical cancer,

aren’t you? I have talked to Hayley about her sexual health and she knows

all about condoms and having regular smears. You still have to have

smears, you know, whether you have been inoculated or not”.

Yet Kirstene had her daughter at the age of 17. Surely she should know

about the dangers posed for young women by having sex early: “I wouldn’t

recommend having a child at 17 and I certainly don’t want it for Hayley.

She’s a clever girl and I want her to go to university. But girls are

going to do what they are going to do, aren’t they? They just do what

they want.”

Maybe that’s the problem, says Millard, a Hampshire GP. “There is

a view that simply inoculating young women is taking the line of least

resistance, a sort of liberal agenda which has been peddled since the

1960s with pretty disastrous effects,” he says. “We have more teenage

pregnancies than anywhere else in Europe, and the amount of STD [sexually

transmitted disease] in this country now is frankly out of

control.”

Why not rethink the whole landscape of teenage sex, he suggests: “There

are plenty of other things one could do which would reduce the risk of

contracting cervical cancer, such as encouraging young women to start

sexual activity later and discouraging promiscuity. A giant vaccination

programme is a sort of tacit agreement that sexual activity for teenage

girls is all right.”

is in no doubt. Asked whether she would advise parents to let

their daughter have the jab, she says: “I don’t want it to happen to

anyone else. I want the programme to be stopped in schools. They are only

kids and they are being ushered into a scheme like cattle. And they are

too young. It is ridiculous to expect that young girls of 12 or 13 will

be having sex anyway. They are young and very vulnerable.”

Vaccine figures

By 2011 all girls under 18 will have been offered the Cervarix

vaccine

1.4m children have taken part in the vaccination programme since it began

last September

The vaccine is delivered in three doses over six months nThe immunisation

of 12- and 13-year-olds costs taxpayers £100m a year; the catch-up

campaign for girls under 18 costs £200m a year

The vaccine protects against the two strains of HPV (16 and 18) that

cause cervical cancer in seven out of 10 cases

Each year there are 899 deaths in the UK from cancer of the cervix

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start October 28 & 29

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccineclass.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm