Re: [AVN] Call to shelve vaccine over adverse reactions

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The statement by the health minister matches our own situation here in Australia where we had a greater than 1,600% increase in reaction reports in the first 12 months after Gardasil was released. The Dept of Health openly stated that this increase in reactions was due to Gardasil but there were no calls to withdraw it from use or even to investigate it further. When it comes to our girls (and soon, our boys as well), there does not seem to be any attempt to exercise a proper duty of care by either the government or the medical community as a whole. That's why it is so ESSENTIAL for the AVN and other organisations like us to stay there giving out information parents will not get anywhere else!On 09/03/2010, at 12:01 PM, wrote:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/3421156/Call-to-shelve-vaccine-over-adverse-reactions

Call to shelve vaccine over adverse reactions The Timaru Herald

- New Zealand

Last updated 05:00 09/03/2010 Girls given the Gardasil HPV vaccine are at least 16 times more

likely to have a serious adverse reaction to it than to develop

terminal cervical cancer, which critics say raise doubts about the

increasingly controversial vaccine.

Information released under the Official Information

Act shows the death rate for cervical cancer between 2002 and 2005 was

1.95 deaths per 100,000 women. This compares with 31 serious adverse

reactions for the 90,000 girls who have been vaccinated with Gardasil

so far.

The reactions include the death of an 18-year-old

woman in September 2009, and reports of epilepsy, Bells Palsy and

collapses.

Timaru mother , who created a website offtheradar.co.nz

after researching Gardasil, said the figures supported her call to have

the vaccine withdrawn. "Parents are not being made aware [of facts

about Gardasil] and certainly not by the Ministry [of Health]."

Health Minister Tony Ryall responded briefly last

night, saying he was advised the Ministry of Health did not have

concerns about the vaccine's safety or effectiveness.

said the ministry would have been aware of the figures.

The vaccine is given over three doses and provides immunity against

four strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), which manifests as

genital warts. The strains are believed to cause 70 per cent of

cervical cancers in New Zealand. Of the girls who contract HPV, 90 per

cent will clear the infection without any assistance.

Ministry of Health chief advisor of population

health, Dr Holmes, said at the end of January this year, 90,288

young women had had part or all of the vaccination programme. A total

of 242 suspected adverse events following immunisation and 31 serious

adverse reactions have been reported to the Centre for Adverse

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