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Gardasil’s Quiet Side-Effect: Autoimmune Disease



 
 
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Old February 3rd 09, 04:06 PM posted to misc.kids.health,misc.health.alternative,sci.med.nursing,talk.politics.medicine,alt.support.breast-implant
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Default Gardasil’s Quiet Side-Effect: Autoimmune Disease

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The Merck Gardasil PR team has gone overboard in their zeal to promote
this dangerous vaccine. They have mocked the possibility of the
problems from aluminum ...and made numerous unsubstantiated claims
about the possible benefits ... while Merck profits and young women
suffer & die from the effects of this unproven drug.
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http://www.gardasilhpv.com/2009/02/g...utoimmune.html
Maybe the numbers aren’t statistically significant enough, and with no
long-term data we can’t really assess the risk properly. But in one
study of 11,813 girls receiving the Gardasil vaccine, 2 developed
rheumatoid arthritis, 5 developed arthritis, 1 developed reactive
arthritis, and 1 developed juvenile arthritis.

In the control group of similarly-aged young girls, all of whom
received placebo shots also containing aluminum, 1 recipient developed
lupus and 2 developed arthritis.

Merck has been widely criticized for its use of a placebo containing
the same adjuvant as the vaccine instead of a placebo containing a
non-reactive saline. Such a practice can mask adverse
reactions—although in this case a 3-fold increased risk of auto-immune
disease nevertheless became apparent—and aluminum has been associated
with nerve cell death.

Multiple cases of the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome
arising after vaccination with Gardasil have been reported to the
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (it is estimated that less than
10 percent of adverse events are actually reported to VAERS). The CDC,
however, has concluded that so far there is no evidence that Gardasil
increases the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Heads also swiveled last year over the story of Jenny, a young girl
who developed a mystery
case of motor-neuron disease after vaccination with Gardasil. Sadly,
she was far from the only headline-grabbing was-it-Gardasil story.

Incidence of autoimmune disease in general is rising. “Autoimmune
disease is a multimillion dollar market set to increase as world
prevalence rates rise and the population lives longer,” reported
BioPortfolio, rather gleefully.

Roughly eight percent, predominantly women, of people in the US
currently suffer various autoimmune diseases that, according to the
Lancet, “arise in genetically predisposed individuals but require an
environmental trigger.”

Women considering the Gardasil vaccine might want to take hereditary
factors into account first.

‘As examples, Dr. Harper (Dr. Diane Harper, who was involved in
Gardasil’s clinical trials) mentioned family history of motor neuron
disease or autoimmune diseases, which could affect how the person
reacts to the vaccine,’ wrote medical journalist Zosia Chustecka. ‘She
illustrated this point by saying: "Salt does not usually kill anybody,
but for a person with congestive heart failure, it could lead to fatal
pulmonary edema, so you could say that salt caused their death, as it
was the last straw that broke the camel's back."’

That seems like a fairly balanced approach to
does-it-doesn't-it-cause-auto-immune-disease questions. If you really
want to protect against the strains of HPV that cause 70% of cervical
cancers, and you’re not willing to count on regular Pap smears to
protect you, take a look at your family history before undergoing
Gardasil’s three shots. Check for incidence of MS, lupus, rheumatoid
arthritis and so on, and then decide.

What do you think? Could Gardasil be a trigger for auto-immune
diseases? Does autoimmune disease count as a side-effect of a vaccine
if it was triggered by the vaccine rather than caused by it; or if it
appears outside the time-frame considered by the CDC? Should we worry
about the combined effect of the ever-increasing number of recommended
or mandatory vaccines?
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