You read it here first - Gardasil
by Erika Schwartz, MD
The public interest group Judicial Watch has just reported 371
serious adverse events in patients who received Merck's cervical cancer
vaccine Gardasil, including three deaths.
You may remember I exposed this HPV vaccine earlier this year as "an act
of aggression against our daughters who are becoming victims of
pharmaceutical greed."
In February I wrote: "The HPV vaccine has only been tested for five
years on possibly as low as 100,000 ten year old girls in Africa. No one
knows what will happen to those girls or our girls in the five, 10 or 20
years after the vaccine has been administered. The only science here is
the real live testing about to be done on our daughters, who are
technically, like the African ten year olds, the guinea pigs. Remember
Lyme vaccine? What happened to that cure-all? It killed a few people and
was quickly taken off the market.''
Merck invested hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying and marketing
the drug and almost persuaded Texas and some other states to mandate its
use on sixth-grade schoolgirls. Only a revolt by parents and community
groups put a stop to this insanity.
As of May 11, 1,637 side effects were reported to the FDA through the
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the group said. Judicial
Watch received the information through a Freedom of Information Act
request. Approximately 77 percent of the adverse reactions were typical,
including pain at the injection site, itching, fever, nausea and
dizziness, the group noted.
However, one female patient died of a blood clot three hours after
receiving the vaccine, the group said. A 19-year-old patient died of
heart failure partially caused by large blood clots two weeks after
getting the vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, both patients were taking birth control pills, which can
cause clotting. In addition, a 12-year-old patient died of heart
complications six days after receiving Gardasil, according to the VAERS
reports.
Eighteen of the 42 women who received Gardasil while pregnant
experienced adverse side effects, ranging from spontaneous abortion to
fetal abnormalities. Clinical trials used in the FDA's review of
Gardasil last year showed five cases of birth defects among women who
received the vaccine within 30 days of conception. Gardasil is not
recommended for pregnant women, according to the product's label.
Merck recently submitted a supplemental biologic license application to
the FDA to market Gardasil to prevent vaginal and vulvar cancers.