Updated: 12/24/2011
I normally don’t write such strong titles as the one I wrote for Gardasil. However, when you hear multiple reports of young girls dying or no longer able to resume their normal lives because of a blasted vaccine that is making a pharmacerical company rich, it makes me very angry. Watch the above video and you will get as heated as I am right now. Okay, let me take a breath and explain what all the fuss is about.
Gardasil is a vaccine created by Merck given to young women to help prevent cervical cancer. It is intended to prevent 4 different human papillavirus strains from causing cervical cancer. Apparently, according to Merck,these four strains account for 70% of cervical cancer cases. Women and girls from ages 9-28 are give three rounds of vaccinations. If you contract another type of cervical cancer causing virus, this vaccine will not help you.
You may have seen the above Gardasil commerical. The one the says “I want to be one less” referring to being one less woman dying of cervical cancer. It tugs at your heart strings, and makes you want to run out and vaccinate your daughters. (Update: And your boys.) What they don’t tell you in the commerical, is about all the debilating side effects and deaths that have resulted from this vaccine.
NVIC’s latest Gardasil risk report comparing the number and severity of adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) through November 30, 2008, reveals that death and serious health problems such as stroke, blood clots, cardiac arrest, seizures, fainting, lupus and rechallenge cases are reported three to 30 times more frequently after Gardasil vaccination than after meningococcal (Menactra) vaccination.
In real numbers, as revealed on the CBS video, there were 5021 Gardasil ER visits compared to 1667 Menactra ER visits and 29 deaths allegedly caused by Gardasil. The FDA, CDC, and Merck state that the benefits outweigh the risks. Did everyone at the CDC and the FDA flunk math in high school? Gardasil has THREE times the incidents as Menactra, a drug that also given to young people.
According to the NVIC e-newletter I received,
Today NVIC launched a and issued a national press release calling on President Barack Obama, his Administration and Congress to investigate the fast track licensure and universal use recommendation of Gardasil in 2006 and the dismissal of more than 10,000 reports of Gardasil-related reactions, injuries and deaths to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) as a “coincidence” by federal health officials.
Please sign this petition, if you are as outraged as I am. NVIC further states,
Gardasil vaccine was inappropriately fast tracked and licensed by the FDA and recommended by the CDC with too little attention paid to the reports of brain and immune system dysfunction that developed after vaccination in pre-licensure clinical trials. That same cavalier attitude toward Gardasil-related deaths and serious health problems, which have been experienced by many girls and young women after licensure, is inexcusable.
It was reported that the vaccine may available for boys, who transmit the cancer causing viruses to girls. Sure. Let’s double the amount of vaccine injuries. (Update: The vaccine is available to boys now.) Heck, it is only our young ones that are being effected.
President Obama, please fire everyone at the FDA and CDC and wipe the slant clean. “I want want to be one less” should mean I want to be one less woman to receive this hideous vaccination. Go back to the drawing board and do it right this time.
Update: 12/24/2011: Thanks to Sarah at the Healthy Home Economist for sharing this link of this peer reviewed article, ” Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine: Are they at odds?” Key take aways are listed on the first page. The one that struck me was a follows:
“Current worldwide HPV immunization practices with either of the two HPV vaccines appear to be neither justified by long-term health benefi ts nor economically viable, nor is there any evidence that HPV vaccination (even if proven eff ective against cervical cancer) would reduce the rate of cervical cancer beyond what Pap screening has already achieved.”
Join the Conversation
- what are your thoughts about Gardasil?
- Have you refused the vaccine?
- How do you feel about it being offered for boys now?
Chicago heart specialist says
This is just ridiculous. Merck needs to take the necessary steps to make sure their vaccine is safe. Even from a strictly profit point of view, if their product isn’t safe, the short-term sales are not going to outweigh the long-term losses for a poor and dangerous product.
Green Talk says
Chicago Heart, I so agree. Thanks for giving us your input. Anna
Eshe Riviears says
I knew that this would happen and hotly advocated for women NOT to allow their \”baby-women\” to be poisoned by this experiment.
I believed that this vaccine would \”cause\” cancer instead of prevent it…These vaccines always go wrong…remember the \”DES daughters\”?
Never be the first or the ones to adhere to \”new\” vaccine guidelines…Are the FDA & CDC vaccinated their own 9 year old daughters?
I highly doubt it…and I promised I would take my 10 year old daughter to another country before I let her have a \”hellish\” life trying to correct her female organs.
A child in my sister\’s neighborhood, her face was severely \”pock-marked\” by this vaccine.
She is 11 and looks like a \”strawberry crater-face\”. Her story was featured on CNN.
Everyone associated with this vaccine should be criminally charged!
Cheri says
This is awful!!! I think your headline for your post was tame.
I just got to your site for the first time and I thank you so much for posting this! I am going to share it will all my friends with daughters.
Erik says
Governor Perry tried to make this mandatory for 12 and up girls in Texas. It’s absolutely criminal.
Eriks last blog post..How do I miss you?
Green Talk says
Erik, that is absurd. Gov Perry, you first…Anna
Kathryn says
after my third series shot of gardasil, nine hours later i had seizure, fainted, got a severe concussion – was unconscious for about an hour. this was almost 4 months ago and i am still not the same as i was before i got the shot. i have all kinds of neurological problems including vertigo, loss of hearing in one ear periodically, nausea, and extreme fatigue. this shot has taken my quality of life away and i pray to God every day that it comes back..
Orange County Private Investigators says
This supposed to be revolutionary product by Merck has heated up lots of debate. Including the once a happy and healthy teen, Gabi Swank has been plagued with extreme fatigue, headaches and loss of coordination. Swank expects to die from her disease and wants Gardasil to be banned in order to spare other young girls a similar fate.
But even with the multiple allegations about Gardasil, there are reports of their planning to administer it to boys in the near future. Horrendous.
Green Talk says
Orange County, this vaccine is just terrible. I know they are planning to administer it to boys. Anna
Rainieha says
I’ve read a lot of negative backgrounds about Gardasil vaccine but I really don’t believe about that because FDA approved it as a good vaccine for any transmitted disease. Young girls are highly recommended to have it as soon as possible for safety purposes.
Anna@Green Talk says
I think you have to decide who to believe. The FDA didn’t ban BPA so I am not trusting the FDA these days. Just my 2 cents. Anna