HPV
Vaccine Is Associated with Serious Health Risks, Including Sudden Death
This article is from mercola.com who did a great research piece that I wanted to share with you here.
Many women are not aware that the HPV vaccine Gardasil might actually increase your risk of cervical cancer. Initially, that information came straight from Merck and was presented to the FDA prior to approval5. According to Merck’s own research, if you have been exposed to HPV strains 16 or 18 prior to receipt of Gardasil vaccine, you could increase your risk of precancerous lesions, or worse, by 44.6 percent.
Other
health problems associated with Gardasil vaccine include immune-based
inflammatory neurodegenerative disorders, suggesting that something is causing
the immune system to overreact in a detrimental way—sometimes fatally.
- Between June 1, 2006 and December 31, 2008, there were 12,424
reported adverse events following Gardasil vaccination, including 32 deaths.
The girls, who were on average 18 years old, died within two to 405 days after
their last Gardasil injection
- Between May 2009 and September 2010, 16 additional deaths after
Gardasil vaccination were reported. For that timeframe, there were also 789
reports of “serious” Gardasil adverse reactions, including 213 cases
of permanent disability and 25 diagnosed cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Between September 1, 2010 and September 15, 2011, another 26
deaths were reported following HPV vaccination
- As of May 13, 2013, VAERS had received 29,686 reports of adverse
events following HPV vaccinations, including 136 reports of death,6, as well
as 922 reports of disability, and 550 life-threatening adverse events
Lawsuit
Reveals Payouts of Nearly $6 Million to HPV Vaccine-Damaged Victims
On
February 28, 2013 the government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced it had
filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS) to obtain records from the Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program (VICP) related to the HPV vaccine7. The
lawsuit was filed in order to force the DHHS to comply with an earlier FOIA
request, filed in November 2012, which had been ignored. As reported by WND.com8:
“Judicial
Watch wants all records relating to the VICP, any documented injuries or deaths
associated with HPV vaccines and all records of compensation paid to the
claimants following injury or death allegedly associated with the HPV
vaccines… The number of successful claims made under the VICP to victims of
HPV will provide further information about any dangers of the vaccine,
including the number of well-substantiated cases of adverse reactions.”
On March
20, Judicial Watch announced it had received the FOIA documents from the DDHS,
which revealed that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has
awarded $5,877,710 to 49 victims for harm resulting from the HPV vaccine.
According to the press release9: “On
March 12, 2013, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an
agency of HHS, provided Judicial Watch with documents revealing the following
information:
- Only 49 of the 200 claims filed have been
compensated for injury or death caused from the (HPV) vaccine. Of the 49
compensated claims, 47 were for injury caused from the (HPV) vaccine. The
additional 2 claims were for death caused due to the vaccine.
- 92 (nearly half) of the total 200 claims filed
are still pending. Of those pending claims, 87 of the claims against the (HPV)
vaccine were filed for injury. The remaining 5 claims were filed for death.
- 59 claims have been dismissed outright by VICP.
The alleged victims were not compensated for their claims against the HPV
vaccine. Of the claims dismissed, 57 were for injuries, 2 were for deaths
allegedly caused by the HPV vaccine.
- The amount awarded to the 49 claims compensated
totaled 5,877,710.87 dollars. This amounts to approximately $120,000 per claim.
This new
information from the government shows that the serious safety concerns about
the use of Gardasil have been well-founded,” said Judicial Watch President
Tom Fitton. “Public health officials should stop pushing Gardasil on
children.”
Review of
HPV Vaccine Trials Conclude Effectiveness Is Still Unproven
Last
year, a systematic review10 of pre- and post-licensure
trials of the HPV vaccine by researchers at University of British Columbia
showed that the vaccine’s effectiveness is not only overstated (through the use
of selective reporting or “cherry picking” data) but also unproven.
In the summary of the clinical trial review, the authors state it quite
clearly:
“We
carried out a systematic review of HPV vaccine pre- and post-licensure trials
to assess the evidence of their effectiveness and safety. We found that HPV
vaccine clinical trials design, and data interpretation of both efficacy and
safety outcomes, were largely inadequate. Additionally, we note evidence of
selective reporting of results from clinical trials (i.e., exclusion of
vaccine efficacy figures related to study subgroups in which efficacy might be
lower or even negative from peer-reviewed publications).
Given
this, the widespread optimism regarding HPV vaccines long-term benefits appears
to rest on a number of unproven assumptions (or such which are at odds with
factual evidence) and significant misinterpretation of available data.
For
example, the claim that HPV vaccination will result in approximately 70%
reduction of cervical cancers is made despite the fact that the clinical trials
data have not demonstrated to date that the vaccines have actually prevented a
single case of cervical cancer (let alone cervical cancer death), nor
that the current overly optimistic surrogate marker-based extrapolations are
justified.
Likewise,
the notion that HPV vaccines have an impressive safety profile is only
supported by highly flawed design of safety trials and is contrary to
accumulating evidence from vaccine safety surveillance databases and case
reports which continue to link HPV vaccination to serious adverse outcomes
(including death and permanent disabilities).
We thus
conclude that further reduction of cervical cancers might be best achieved by
optimizing cervical screening (which carries no such risks) and targeting other
factors of the disease rather than by the reliance on vaccines with
questionable efficacy and safety profiles.”
[Emphasis mine]
Talk to Your Kids about HPV and Gardasil
There are better ways to protect yourself or your young daughters
against cancer than getting Gardasil or Cervarix vaccinations, and it’s
important you let your children know this. In more than 90 percent of HPV
infections, HPV infection is cleared within two years on its own,
so keeping
your immune system strong is far more important than getting vaccinated.
In addition, HPV infection is spread through sexual contact and
research11 has demonstrated that using condoms can
reduce your risk of HPV infection by 70 percent, which is far more effective
than the HPV vaccine. Because this infection is sexually transmitted, the risk
of infection can be greatly reduced by lifestyle choices, including abstinence.
In addition, there are high risk factors for chronic HPV infection including
smoking, co-infection with herpes, Chlamydia or HIV and long-term birth
control use. Women chronically infected with HPV for many years, who don’t get
pre-cancerous cervical lesions promptly identified and treated, can develop
cervical cancer and die.
So it is important to remember that, even if they get vaccinated,
girls and women should get Pap test screening every few years for cervical
changes that may indicate pre-cancerous lesions because there is little
guarantee that either Gardasil or Cervarix vaccinations will prevent cervical
cancer. After Pap test screening became a routine part of health care for
American women in the 1960’s, cervical cancer cases in the U.S. dropped 74
percent and continued Pap testing is recommended for women who receive HPV
vaccines.
Why We Must Protect Vaccine Exemptions
There can be no doubt that we are in urgent need of a serious
vaccine safety review in the US. Quality science is simply not being done. And
very few vaccine recommendations, which prop up state vaccine mandates, stand
on firm scientific ground. Your right to vaccine
exemptions is also increasingly under threat.
I urge you to get involved in the monumentally important task of
defending YOUR right to know and freedom to choose which vaccines you and your
child will use. The non-profit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC), has been preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education
for more than 30 years and is leading the advocacy effort in the states to
protect vaccine exemptions. Supporting
NVIC is one way you can help, in addition to signing up for the
free online NVIC Advocacy Portal so you
stay informed about threats to vaccine exemptions in your state and contact
your state legislators to make your voice heard.
All across the United States, people are fighting for their right
not to be injected with vaccines against their will. These threats come in a
variety of guises like California bill
AB49912, which
permits minor children as young as 12 years old to be vaccinated with sexually
transmitted disease vaccines like Gardasil without parental knowledge or parental
consent! In light of the evidence that HPV vaccines have not been
proven safe or effective, how wise is it to allow doctors to give a minor child
Gardasil or Cervarix vaccinations without informing and getting the consent of
parents? How are parents supposed to monitor their children for signs of a
vaccine reaction if they don’t even know their children have been given a
vaccine? It’s nothing short of reprehensible.
I cannot stress enough how critical it is to get involved and
stand up for your human right to exercise informed consent to vaccination and
protect your legal right to obtain medical and non-medical vaccine exemptions.
This does not mean you have to opt out of all vaccinations if you decide that
you want to give one or more vaccines to your child. The point is, EVERYONE
should have the right to evaluate the potential benefits and real risks of any
pharmaceutical product, including vaccines, and opt out of any vaccine they
decide is unnecessary or not in the best interest of their child’s health.
Every child is different and has a unique personal and family medical history,
which may include severe allergies or autoimmune and neurological disorders,
that could increase the risks of vaccination.
It is your parental right to make potentially life-altering health
decisions for your own children. Why wouldn’t you want to keep
that right—even if you want your child to receive most or all vaccinations
currently available? Tomorrow there might be a vaccine you don’t
want your child to receive, but if you’ve failed to support strong informed
consent protections in public health laws, which includes the legal right for
all Americans to take medical and non-medical vaccine exemptions, you’ve given
away your own freedom to choose in the future…
Internet
Resources Where You Can Learn More
I
encourage you to visit the following web pages on the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC) website at www.NVIC.org:
- NVIC Memorial
for Vaccine Victims: View descriptions and photos of
children and adults, who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths.
If you or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider
posting and sharing your story here.
- If You
Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions: Learn how to recognize vaccine
reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries.
- Vaccine Freedom
Wall: View or post descriptions of harassment by doctors,
employers or school officials for making independent vaccine choices.
- NVIC Advocacy
Portal: Sign up today to be a user of this free online privacy-protected
network of concerned citizens all working to educate legislators to protect
vaccine exemptions in public health policies and laws.
Connect with Your Doctor or Find a New One That Will Listen and
Care
If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to
you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don’t want, I strongly
encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor.
Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care is becoming the modus
operandi of the medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in
attitude of many parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated
about health and vaccination.
However, there is hope.
At least 15 percent of young doctors polled in the past few years
admit that they’re starting to adopt a more individualized approach to
vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents. It
is good news that there is a growing number of smart young doctors, who prefer
to work as partners with parents in making personalized vaccine decisions for
children, including delaying vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on
the same day or continuing to provide medical care for those families, who
decline use of one or more vaccines.
So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with
compassion and respect and is willing to work with you to do what is right for
your child.
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent
and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health
choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent
that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine
informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The
best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators
and educating the leaders in your community.
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT
LOCALLY.
National vaccine policy
recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the
state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine
choice rights can have the greatest impact.
It is critical for
EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make
voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened
by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations, and
public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all
vaccine exemptions from public health laws.
Signing up for NVIC’s
free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org
gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your smart
phone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up to date
on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and get
practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice
advocate in your own community.
Also, when national
vaccine issues come up, you will have the up to date information and call to
action items you need at your fingertips. So please, as your first step, sign up for the
NVIC Advocacy Portal.
Share Your Story With the Media and
People You Know
If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine reaction,
injury, or death, please talk about it. If we don’t share information and
experiences with one another, everybody feels alone and afraid to speak up.
Write a letter to the editor if you have a different perspective on a vaccine
story that appears in your local newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show
that is only presenting one side of the vaccine story.
I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might
be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the “other side” of
the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not back down.
Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be true about vaccination,
will the public conversation about vaccination open up so people are not afraid
to talk about it.
We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations
funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced use of a
growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about vaccination.
The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet and treated
like nothing more than “statistically acceptable collateral damage”
of national one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies that put way too
many people at risk for injury and death. We shouldn’t be treating people like
guinea pigs instead of human beings.
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More
I encourage you to visit
the website of the non-profit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC), at www.NVIC.org:
- NVIC Memorial
for Vaccine Victims — View descriptions and photos of children
and adults, who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths. If you
or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider posting and
sharing your story here.
- If You
Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions — Learn how to recognize vaccine
reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries.
- Vaccine Freedom Wall — View or post descriptions of
harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers, and school and health officials
for making independent vaccine choices.
- Vaccine Failure
Wall — View or post descriptions about vaccines that have failed
to work and protect the vaccinated from disease.
Connect With Your Doctor or Find a New
One That Will Listen and Care
If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to
you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don’t want, I strongly
encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor. Harassment,
intimidation, and refusal of medical care is becoming the modus operandi of the
medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in attitude of many
parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and
vaccination. However, there is hope.
At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that
they’re starting to adopt a more individualized approach to vaccinations in
direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents.
It is good news that there is a growing number of smart young
doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making personalized
vaccine decisions for children, including delaying vaccinations or giving
children fewer vaccines on the same day or continuing to provide medical care
for those families, who decline use of one or more vaccines.
So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with
compassion and respect, and is willing to work with you to do what is right for
your child.
