NVIC Vaccine E-NewsletterFebruary 9, 2009

Gardasil Death & Brain Damage: A National Tragedy
by Barbara Loe Fisher

The tragic story of Gardasil vaccine is one that is
playing out real time in the homes of trusting parents,
who thought they were doing the right thing to try to
make their daughters "one less," and in the 21st
century cyberspace forum of public opinion as well as
on television. On Feb. 6, CBS-TV Evening
News released NVIC's new report on Gardasil vaccine risks.

Story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/06/eveningnews/main4781658.shtml
Watch VIDEO here: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4781857n



Today, NVIC launched a petition 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.

Petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/14/investigate-gardasil-vaccine-risks-now
NVIC Press Release:
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&news\
Id=20090209005358&newsLang=en



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. If the deaths and serious injuries being
reported after Gardasil were only a "coincidence,"
there would be little or no difference between the
frequency and severity of vaccine-related adverse
events between two vaccines if the vaccines were
equally reactive and the number of doses were
roughly the same.

NVIC Report:
http://www.nvic.org/Downloads/NVICGardasilvsMenactraVAERSReportFeb-2009u.aspx



Gardasil and Menactra vaccines were licensed
within a year of each other and recommended by the
CDC for universal use in 11-12 year olds. Although
Menactra is given to boys and girls and has already
been mandated in many states for high school and
college entry, Gardasil is only given to girls and is not
yet mandated. Menatra is given as one-dose series
and, by February 25, 2008, the CDC reported that
about 15.5 million doses of Menactra had been distributed in the U.S.
Gardasil is given in a three
dose series and the CDC reported that, by July
2008, about 16 million doses had been distributed in the U.S.

CDC on GBS (Guillain-Barré syndrome) and Menactra Meningococcal Vaccine:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/gbsfactsheet.htm
Information from FDA and CDC on Gardasil and its safety:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaers/FDA_and_CDC_Statement.htm



This means that about 15 million doses of
Menactra were given to about 15 million boys and/or
girls and about 16 million doses of Gardasil - if every
girl got three doses - were given to about five million
girls. It is individuals - not doses of vaccine - who
collapse, convulse, become paralyzed, have heart
attacks, develop lupus and other chronic health
problems after being vaccinated. The fact that death
and serious health problems are reported 3 to 30
times more frequently after Gardasil than after
Menactra is highly significant and it is irresponsible for
federal health officials and Merck to blow it off as
unimportant.




What is sad is that the average junior high or
high school student could do this VAERS analysis and
come to the same conclusion. It does not take an
M.D., Ph.D. or math genius to figure it out. In the hours
before the CBS News report was broadcast, the best
answer that Merck could come up with to address the
differences between adverse events associated with
Gardasil and Menactra was this:



"It's important to remember that the proven
benefit of GARDASIL is that it helps prevent cervical
cancer caused by the two virus types responsible for
most cases of cervical cancer. Nothing is more
important to Merck than the safety of our products and
we carefully monitor the safety of GARDASIL on a
routine basis. Experts at the FDA and CDC also
continue to review data and, as recently as four
months ago, said "GARDASIL continues to be safe
and effective, and its benefits continue to outweigh its
risks." NVIC is not a medical organization and has a
long history of raising concerns about vaccines that
are in direct conflict with the opinion of leading
medical experts. We encourage consumers to get
reliable information about the safety of vaccines from
http://www.cdc.gov


No, it doesn't take a doctor, health official
or "medical organization" to do the math. What it takes
is caring about every life - whether that life represents
a baby, toddler, child, teenager, young adult, adult or
senior citizen - because every life is important and
nobody deserves to be written off by a drug company
or government agency as an expendable casualty of
public health policy.



Gabrielle, the 15 year old gymnast, honor roll
student and cheerleader from Wichita, Kansas, who
talks about how her health has been destroyed by
Gardasil vaccine in the CBS report and in the NVIC
video press release, spends most of her time at home
or at doctors' offices now. A few weeks ago, her
school voted her Homecoming Princess. On Saturday,
she tried to go to the Homecoming dance. As she was
getting dressed, she collapsed with seizures and
severe abdominal pain. The medication she has been
taking to try to control the seizures she developed after
Gardasil vaccination caused her to develop kidney
stones. She was rushed to the emergency room and
hospitalized.



In the past 27 years, the stories of death and
brain damage that have been reported to the National
Vaccine Information Center have never changed.
Whether the vaccine victims are 15 months old or 15
years old, the stories are the same: a trusting parent
took a bright, healthy child to a doctor for a routine
vaccination and the child was never the same
again.



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.



Americans are losing trust in pharmaceutical
companies making drugs and vaccines and in federal
health agencies, whose responsibility is to ensure
that drugs and vaccines licensed for public use are
safe, effective and necessary. If those responsible for
protecting our health are not going to step up to the
plate and do their jobs, then it is up to the people to do
it.



At http://www.NVIC.org
you can sign the Investigate Gardasil Vaccine
Risks Now! petition, read NVIC's new report on
Gardasil risks, and check out our new website that
makes it easier to navigate and find information to
prevent vaccine injuries and deaths.



In 2009, I have a sense of déjà vu, as the story
of Gardasil vaccine plays out real time. There are
striking parallels between how those operating the
mass vaccination system reacted in the 1980's to
persistent reports that DPT vaccine was harming
more children than originally assumed and the way
they are reacting now to persistent reports that
Gardasil is more reactive than it was originally
assumed. Assumption of safety is no substitute for
proof of safety. And turning away from human suffering
in order to protect the status quo is not the way to run a
government that needs the trust and support of the
people.



In the 18th century, Queen Marie Antoinette
looked down at a starving people pleading for bread to
stay alive and said "Let them eat cake." It is time for
everyone in government, industry and medicine to take
a different approach to persistent reports of vaccine
injuries and deaths or risk metaphorically suffering the
same fate that ended the monarchy in France. In the
21st century, today's peasants don't have pitchforks -
they have laptops, desktops, smartphones and the
internet.


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