Gardasil Researcher Questions Safety, Effectiveness of HPV Vaccines: Gardasil ‘is a Great Big Public Health Experiment’

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Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research

Group at the University of Missouri, was the lead researcher in

developing both vaccines, chattahbox.com said. She was supposed to

address the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which

took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4 on the effectiveness of both

Gardasil and Cervarix, but her remarks took a decidedly different turn.

According to chattahbox.com, Dr. Harper asserted that the evidence

shows that the vaccine does little to reduce cervical cancer, beyond

current preventative measures. She argued that the incidence of cervical

cancer in the U.S. is already so low that " even if we get the vaccine

and continue PAP screening, we will not lower the rate of cervical

cancer in the U.S. "

Dr. Harper also warned that Merck & Co., the maker of Gardasil, had

not tested Gardasil on girls younger than 15, chattahbox.com said. " It

is silly to mandate vaccination of 11 to 12 year old girls. There also

is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is

not an issue, " warned Harper.

*/Vaccine Researcher: Gardasil ‘is a Great Big Public Health Experiment’/*

October 28, 2009

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