Posted on March 2, 2010.
Gardasil vaccine against HPV-related cancer, full of dangers The school supplies and new clothes are the spirits of parents in this time of year, but they must be aware of a new danger - the aggressive promotion of the vaccine Gardasil powerful, who has been linked to the deaths of nearly 39 women and a host of other problems.
Produced by Merck & Co., Gardasil is a vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer. Billed as a "vaccine against cancer," Merck has paid millions of dollars in a campaign that has reached the level of school and health authorities of the city.
But an independent study by the National Vaccine Information Cente r (CINV) in relation to Gardasil Manactra, an anti-meningitis is also given to children. The report says, "compared with Menactra, the receipt of Gardasil is linked to at least two times the number reporting an emergency room visit, four times the reports on deaths, five times the" do not retrieve reports, and seven times more "handicapped" reports. "
"Catalogue of horrors"
Approved by the FDA in 2006 for girls and women aged 9-26, Gardasil is the subject of some 6,700 troubling cases reported by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), an agency of the Department of Health and Social Services. Many cases suggest a possible cause and effect between the drug and its many problems. It is estimated that only one in ten of the side effects of these drugs are reported.
"The adverse event reports from the FDA about the vaccine against HPV read like a catalog of horrors," said Tom Fitten, president of Judicial Watch , a supporter of monitoring group that said no, he there was no chance to study term side effects throughout the vaccine.
School and public health officials have been pushing the vaccine for girls in the weeks preceding the beginning, and some states have proposed mandatory vaccinations.
Many side effects
The notice from the FDA for the drug a list of possible side effects: headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, local reactions at the injection site such as pain, swelling of the skin, itching and bruising influenza activity type, and anaphylaxis, which is an allergic reaction.