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Old August 7th 08, 10:51 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,talk.politics.medicine,uk.people.health
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Default Gardasil reaction

Girls report severe reactions to Gardasil vaccine July 10th, 2008 Katherine
Kimzey, 14, talks about suffering seizures, fainting, headaches and
stiffness after her second dose of Gardasil. Girls and women around the
country have reported severe reactions to the vaccine designed to protect
against the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer.
http://www.whas11.com/video/index.html?nvid=262209

[June 2008] HPV vaccine's suspected side effects cause concern; CDC says
drug is safe http://www.whale.to/vaccine/hpv_vaccine1.html

Katherine Kimzey started suffering debilitating headaches, fainting spells
and arthritis-like stiffness last November. Six weeks later, the 14-year-old
Dallas resident became so dizzy she could barely walk. She was hospitalized
and missed three weeks of school. Then, she had a seizure. For weeks, she
bounced back and forth between specialists and was eventually diagnosed with
epilepsy.


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Old August 8th 08, 08:34 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,talk.politics.medicine,uk.people.health
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Is HPV Vaccine to Blame for a Teen's Paralysis?
July 02, 2008 04:41 PM ET |

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-women...paralysis.html
About a month after being vaccinated against the cervical cancer-causing HPV
virus, 13-year-old Jenny Tetlock missed the lowest hurdle in gym class, the
first hint of the degenerative muscle disease that, 15 months later, has
left the previously healthy teenager nearly completely paralyzed. Did the
vaccine, Gardasil, cause her condition? Her father, Philip Tetlock, a
psychology professor at UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business, has embarked
on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine or random coincidence is to
blame.
As father and scientist, Tetlock has contacted top medical experts, posted
pleas on discussion boards looking for other teens who've experienced
neurological problems post-vaccination and has been desperately trying to
get the government to open an investigation into his daughter's case. "The
weakening process is gradual so it may take months for parents to notice
what is going on," he writes me in an E-mail. He started a blog a few weeks
ago that shows photos of his sweet-faced teen and reveals his anger and
frustration in the form of a box counting the days that he has yet to get a
response from the government's Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment
Network. As of today, it's 28.

He's not the only one to raise an alarm. The conservative public watchdog
group Judicial Watch has been periodically obtaining adverse event reports
on Gardasil from the Food and Drug Administration. I received the group's
latest warning this week: of 10 deaths linked to Gardasil since September
2007 and 140 reports so far this year of serious effects such as miscarriage
and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a nervous system disease that causes weakness
and tingling in the arms and legs. (But these reports filed by patients or
doctors with the government's vaccine adverse event reporting system may or
may not reflect true vaccine risks. Some problems may be missed or
underreported, while others, including sudden deaths, may have nothing to do
with the vaccine itself.)

Judicial Watch opposes efforts in many states to make the vaccine mandatory
for all girls ages 11 and 12. Those efforts have raised concerns among
religious groups that protecting against the sexually transmitted virus will
encourage promiscuity among teen girls. The FDA insists there's no medical
reason to be worried. "We're monitoring the safety of the HPV vaccine very
carefully, and the only adverse event that causes some concern is syncope or
fainting after the vaccine," says Robert Ball, director of the FDA's office
of biostatistics and division of epidemiology at the center for biologics
evaluation and research. Higher rates of Guillain-Barré have been associated
with the swine flu vaccine and possibly with the meningitis vaccine
Menactra, but it is no more common in those who get Gardasil than in those
who don't, says Ball. The same goes for other side effects like spontaneous
miscarriage.

What's more, the FDA has not documented any other cases of vaccine-related
peripheral motor neuropathy-what Jenny has-either in the adverse event
reports filed by doctors and patients or in the manufacturer's clinical
trial data. Merck, the vaccine's manufacturer, has dismissed the possibility
that Jenny's condition was caused by Gardasil. "We're aware of this case and
based on the facts that we've received, the information doesn't suggest that
this event was causally associated with vaccination," says Merck
spokesperson Kelley Dougherty.

Tetlock, though, wonders if Jenny carries genes that predisposed her to
problems with the Gardasil vaccine. At age 10, Jenny developed a rare skin
disease called pityriasis lichenoides that's thought to be triggered by an
overactive immune system, and her grandmother died of a nervous system
disease. Could it be that certain genetic tendencies make some people more
likely to develop severe reactions from vaccines? I ask Ball. "That's an
important question," he responds. "We just don't know." It's certainly going
to be a topic of future research, he adds. The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention is starting to look at whether those who developed
Guillain-Barré after being vaccinated share a common set of genes. So
Tetlock could find out someday if his hunches are correct.

At this moment, he and his wife, Barbara Mellers, also a professor at
Berkeley, are focused on being with their daughter as she struggles to
breathe on her own. "Jenny endures terrible suffering each day," Tetlock
tells me via E-mail. "She must watch her capacity to control her own body
gradually ebb away-and each day her hopes of ever having a normal human life
recede ever further into memory. The disease is cruel beyond belief."

As a parent, I've wrestled with whether or when to get my 12-year-old
daughter vaccinated against HPV. As much as vaccines are vital in protecting
against life-threatening infectious diseases, they do, indeed, have the
potential to cause harm-however rare that may be. Evidence is mounting that
the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal could trigger autism in
certain susceptible kids, as my colleague Bernadine Healy previously
reported. We don't know yet whether Jenny's illness is linked to Gardasil,
though it's certainly plausible given the timing of symptoms several weeks
after vaccination, which is when vaccine-related neurological problems
typically occur. I'm not sure whether Jenny's case has changed my opinion
about the value of Gardasil. But it certainly has given me pause.


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Old August 8th 08, 02:19 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,talk.politics.medicine,uk.people.health
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Default Merck's Manufacturing Problems at Gardasil

Merck's Manufacturing Problems at Gardasil Factory May be Easing, but There
Are Still Problems
Date Published: Monday, August 4th, 2008

Not too long ago, Merck received a Food & Drug Administration (FDA) warning
letter citing good manufacturing practice violations at its vaccine
operations in West Point, Pennsylvania following an inspection that cited 49
Form 483 observations. Among the products made at the plant is the cervical
cancer vaccine, Gardasil. During its second-quarter earnings call, Merck
reported that the FDA closed out the warning letter that claimed bulk drug
substances for many of Merck's vaccines were adulterated.

"On July 10, Merck received a letter from the FDA closing out its recent
inspection at the West Point manufacturing facility. As a result, any filed
sBLAs which were held up due to the inspection can now move through the
agency's normal review and approval process," Merck CEO Dick Clark said.
"Concerning supplements, we have at least two supplements with the FDA
concerning Gardasil and they will move through the process," he said. Merck
states the supplements are for expanded labeling for Gardasil and that it
will respond to an FDA complete response letter for the use of the vaccine
in women 27-45 years of age.

http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3567


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Old August 26th 08, 12:03 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,talk.politics.medicine,uk.people.health
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CNN Reports on 9,749 Adverse Gardasil Reactions
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_13plsrydPY


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Old August 27th 08, 05:32 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,talk.politics.medicine,uk.people.health
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"JOHN" wrote in message
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CNN Reports on 9,749 Adverse Gardasil Reactions
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_13plsrydPY

Thanks, John for revealing the truth of this vaccine and the lies of the
CDC.
Keep up the good work.
Jan

 




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