[NVIC] Gardasil Death & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy

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> NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter

> February 9, 2009

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> Gardasil Death & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy

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> by Barbara Loe Fisher

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> The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is playing out

> real time in the homes of trusting parents, who thought they were

> doing the right thing to try to make their daughters " one less, "

> and in the 21st century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well

> as on television. On Feb. 6, CBS-TV Evening News released NVIC's

> new report on Gardasil vaccine risks. (watch VIDEO here)

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> Today, NVIC launched a petition and issued a national press release

> calling on President Barack Obama, his Administration and Congress

> to investigate the fast track licensure and universal use

> recommendation of Gardasil in 2006 and the dismissal of more than

> 10,000 reports of Gardasil-related reactions, injuries and deaths

> to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) as a

> " coincidence " by federal health officials.

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> NVIC's latest Gardasil risk report comparing the number and

> severity of adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse

> Events Reporting System (VAERS) through November 30, 2008, reveals

> that death and serious health problems such as stroke, blood clots,

> cardiac arrest, seizures, fainting, lupus and rechallenge cases are

> reported three to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil

> vaccination than after meningococcal (Menactra) vaccination. If the

> deaths and serious injuries being reported after Gardasil were only

> a " coincidence, " there would be little or no difference between the

> frequency and severity of vaccine-related adverse events between

> two vaccines if the vaccines were equally reactive and the number

> of doses were roughly the same.

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> Gardasil and Menactra vaccines were licensed within a year of each

> other and recommended by the CDC for universal use in 11-12 year

> olds. Although Menactra is given to boys and girls and has already

> been mandated in many states for high school and college entry,

> Gardasil is only given to girls and is not yet mandated. Menatra is

> given as one-dose series and, by February 25, 2008, the CDC

> reported that about 15.5 million doses of Menactra had been

> distributed in the U.S. Gardasil is given in a three dose series

> and the CDC reported that, by July 2008, about 16 million doses had

> been distributed in the U.S.

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> This means that about 15 million doses of Menactra were given to

> about 15 million boys and/or girls and about 16 million doses of

> Gardasil - if every girl got three doses - were given to about five

> million girls. It is individuals - not doses of vaccine - who

> collapse, convulse, become paralyzed, have heart attacks, develop

> lupus and other chronic health problems after being vaccinated. The

> fact that death and serious health problems are reported 3 to 30

> times more frequently after Gardasil than after Menactra is highly

> significant and it is irresponsible for federal health officials

> and Merck to blow it off as unimportant.

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> What is sad is that the average junior high or high school student

> could do this VAERS analysis and come to the same conclusion. It

> does not take an M.D., Ph.D. or math genius to figure it out. In

> the hours before the CBS News report was broadcast, the best answer

> that Merck could come up with to address the differences between

> adverse events associated with Gardasil and Menactra was this:

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> " It's important to remember that the proven benefit of GARDASIL is

> that it helps prevent cervical cancer caused by the two virus types

> responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. Nothing is more

> important to Merck than the safety of our products and we carefully

> monitor the safety of GARDASIL on a routine basis. Experts at the

> FDA and CDC also continue to review data and, as recently as four

> months ago, said " GARDASIL continues to be safe and effective, and

> its benefits continue to outweigh its risks. " NVIC is not a medical

> organization and has a long history of raising concerns about

> vaccines that are in direct conflict with the opinion of leading

> medical experts. We encourage consumers to get reliable information

> about the safety of vaccines from www.cdc.gov. "

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> No, it doesn't take a doctor, health official or " medical

> organization " to do the math. What it takes is caring about every

> life - whether that life represents a baby, toddler, child,

> teenager, young adult, adult or senior citizen - because every life

> is important and nobody deserves to be written off by a drug

> company or government agency as an expendable casualty of public

> health policy.

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> le, the 15 year old gymnast, honor roll student and

> cheerleader from Wichita, Kansas, who talks about how her health

> has been destroyed by Gardasil vaccine in the CBS report and in the

> NVIC video press release, spends most of her time at home or at

> doctors' offices now. A few weeks ago, her school voted her

> Homecoming Princess. On Saturday, she tried to go to the Homecoming

> dance. As she was getting dressed, she collapsed with seizures and

> severe abdominal pain. The medication she has been taking to try to

> control the seizures she developed after Gardasil vaccination

> caused her to develop kidney stones. She was rushed to the

> emergency room and hospitalized.

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> In the past 27 years, the stories of death and brain damage that

> have been reported to the National Vaccine Information Center have

> never changed. Whether the vaccine victims are 15 months old or 15

> years old, the stories are the same: a trusting parent took a

> bright, healthy child to a doctor for a routine vaccination and the

> child was never the same again.

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> Gardasil vaccine was inappropriately fast tracked and licensed by

> the FDA and recommended by the CDC with too little attention paid

> to the reports of brain and immune system dysfunction that

> developed after vaccination in pre-licensure clinical trials. That

> same cavalier attitude toward Gardasil-related deaths and serious

> health problems, which have been experienced by many girls and

> young women after licensure, is inexcusable.

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> Americans are losing trust in pharmaceutical companies making drugs

> and vaccines and in federal health agencies, whose responsibility

> is to ensure that drugs and vaccines licensed for public use are

> safe, effective and necessary. If those responsible for protecting

> our health are not going to step up to the plate and do their jobs,

> then it is up to the people to do it.

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> At www.NVIC.org you can sign the Investigate Gardasil Vaccine Risks

> Now! petition, read NVIC's new report on Gardasil risks, and check

> out our new website that makes it easier to navigate and find

> information to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths.

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> In 2009, I have a sense of déjà vu, as the story of Gardasil

> vaccine plays out real time. There are striking parallels between

> how those operating the mass vaccination system reacted in the

> 1980's to persistent reports that DPT vaccine was harming more

> children than originally assumed and the way they are reacting now

> to persistent reports that Gardasil is more reactive than it was

> originally assumed. Assumption of safety is no substitute for proof

> of safety. And turning away from human suffering in order to

> protect the status quo is not the way to run a government that

> needs the trust and support of the people.

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> In the 18th century, Queen Marie Antoinette looked down at a

> starving people pleading for bread to stay alive and said " Let them

> eat cake. " It is time for everyone in government, industry and

> medicine to take a different approach to persistent reports of

> vaccine injuries and deaths or risk metaphorically suffering the

> same fate that ended the monarchy in France. In the 21st century,

> today's peasants don't have pitchforks - they have laptops,

> desktops, smartphones and the internet.

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> does not receive any government subsidies. Barbara Loe Fisher,

> President and Co- founder.

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