Foetal damage & birth defects
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[NVIC May 2006] HPV
Vaccine Increases Cancer Risk
Gardasil, the heavily promoted cervical
cancer and genital wart vaccine that Merck, the CDC
and AAP want to mandate for all 11 and 12 year old
girls, will not only increase the risk of cervical cancer for some of
adolescent girls but can also make them susceptible to infection from the
multiple other strains of HPV. In addition, five women who got the
vaccine around time of conception gave birth to babies
with birth defects.
"A 17 year old was vaccinated with Gardasil when she was about one week pregnant. A subsequent ultrasound revealed that the fetus was positive for neural tube defect (a serious birth defect of the brain and spinal cord). A 20 year old female was vaccinated with her first dose of Gardasil during pregnancy and had a spontaneous abortion 10 days later." Vaccine Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller. p375
"My wife and I are currently on active duty in the US Army. Recently, while serving in Korea, we were vaccinated against anthrax. Unknown to us, my wife was pregnant. Our daughter lived for approximately 2 hours before dying." Vaccine Safety Manual by Neil Z. Miller. p423
"In August the FDA acknowledged problems with the (anthrax) vaccine. The product insert was altered dramatically. It said the vaccine could harm people with immunity disorders, could cause a host of serious long-term adverse reactions and could already be responsible for six deaths and a number of birth defects."--Media Nov 2002
Cdr. Megan Ryan has found that women vaccinated for anthrax during the first trimester have a higher rate of birth defects in offspring than unvaccinated women. Apparently this research was compelling enough, despite an army study to the contrary, for the FDA in 2002 to change the pregnancy warning on the vaccine label from a C (no data on risk) to a D (data suggests increased risk during pregnancy). However, the data have not yet been published. Dr. Maria Araneta, also associated with the Naval Health Research Center and University of California, has shown that GW veterans are also likelier than controls to have children with certain birth defects. My understanding of the safety of anthrax vaccine and its role in GWS ---Meryl Nass MD
With respect to the myth’s claim, “by 2002 no new
childhood vaccines with Thimerosal were being sold in the
U.S.,” this is also false because, among other Thimerosal-containing
vaccines that could be given to children in 2002, the
Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccine, which, by its nature, is
a new vaccine every year, was effectively knowingly added to
the recommended vaccination schedule for pregnant women as
well as to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule in
April of 200228 at a time when all doses of the influenza vaccine
approved for “healthy children aged 6–23 months” were
Thimerosal preserved.
Sixth, compounding the harm, in April of 2002, the CDC’s
recommendation that the Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccine
be given to pregnant women who would be in their second
and third trimesters of their pregnancies during the influenza
season, thereby knowingly recommending the Thimerosal and
mercury poisoning the developing child in utero when the risk
of harm is even greater than it is postpartum and the results
published in 197729 clearly found that Thimerosal-preserved
influ vaccines that were given to pregnant women significantly
increased (with a hospital-standardized relative risk of 2.0 or
higher) their children’s risk of serious birth defects (cleft palate
[RR = 7.1], microcephaly [RR = 2.3], and pyloric stenosis [RR
= 2.0]). Key realities about autism, vaccines,
vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary
S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
Rules Don't Protect Fetuses, Newborns From Mercury, Group Says
Aitkens GH; A case of foetal vaccinia. (Med J Aust, 1968 Jul 27)
Vejtorp
M, Leerhoy J.[The risk of rubella-induced fetal damage].Ugeskr Laeger. 1978 Aug 21;140(34):2031-4. Danish. No abstract available.PMID:
98886; UI: 78251602
Vorst
EJ, et al. Vaccinial osteomyelitis in a case of generalized intrauterine
virus infection. Pediatr Pathol. 1983 Apr-Jun;1(2):221-8. PMID: 6687278; UI:
85038293.
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