Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out
A clerk counts Chinese banknotes at a bank in Huaibei, in central China's Anhui province on June 8, 2012. / AP Photo
Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing.
Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It's highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved.
Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine's risk-versus-benefit profile. She says data available for Gardasil shows that it lasts five years; there is no data showing that it remains effective beyond five years.
Read Judicial Watch reports on Gardasil
Dr. LaPook's Story on HPV
Attkisson's Exclusive Report on Gardasil
This raises questions about the CDC's recommendation that the series of shots be given to girls as young as 11-years old. "If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn't last... we've put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit," says Dr. Harper. "The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction in cervical cancers, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated." She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Pap screenings.
Dr. Scott Ratner and his wife, who's also a physician, expressed similar concerns as Dr. Harper in an interview with CBS News last year. One of their teenage daughters became severely ill after her first dose of Gardasil. Dr. Ratner says she'd have been better off getting cervical cancer than the vaccination. "My daughter went from a varsity lacrosse player at Choate to a chronically ill, steroid-dependent patient with autoimmune myofasciitis. I've had to ask myself why I let my eldest of three daughters get an unproven vaccine against a few strains of a nonlethal virus that can be dealt with in more effective ways."
Merck and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain Gardasil is safe and effective, and that adequate warnings are provided, cautioning about soreness at the injection site and risk of fainting after vaccination. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found while the overall risk of side effects appears to be comparable to other vaccines, Gardasil has a higher incidence of blood clots reported. Merck says it continues to have confidence in Gardasil's safety profile. Merck also says it's looking into cases of ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, reported after vaccination. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Merck and the CDC say there is currently no evidence that Gardasil caused ALS in the cases reported. Merck is also monitoring the number of deaths reported after Gardasil: at least 32. Merck and CDC says it's unclear whether the deaths were related to the vaccine, and that just because patients died after the shots doesn't mean the shots were necessarily to blame.
According to Dr. Harper, assessing the true adverse event risk of Gardasil, and comparing it to the risk of cervical cancer can be tricky and complex. "The number of women who die from cervical cancer in the US every year is small but real. It is small because of the success of the Pap screening program."
"The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. Indeed, the risks of vaccination are underreported in Slade's article, as they are based on a denominator of doses distributed from Merck's warehouse. Up to a third of those doses may be in refrigerators waiting to be dispensed as the autumn onslaught of vaccine messages is sent home to parents the first day of school. Should the denominator in Dr. Slade's work be adjusted to account for this, and then divided by three for the number of women who would receive all three doses, the incidence rate of serious adverse events increases up to five fold. How does a parent value that information," said Harper.
Dr. Harper agrees with Merck and the CDC that Gardasil is safe for most girls and women. But she says the side effects reported so far call for more complete disclosure to patients. She says they should be told that protection from the vaccination might not last long enough to provide a cancer protection benefit, and that its risks - "small but real" - could occur more often than the cervical cancer itself would.
"Parents and women must know that deaths occurred. Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in Dr. Slade's work, one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC, leaving the parents of the deceased teenagers in despair that the CDC is ignoring the very rare but real occurrences that need not have happened if parents were given information stating that there are real, but small risks of death surrounding the administration of Gardasil."
She also worries that Merck's aggressive marketing of the vaccine may have given women a false sense of security. "The future expectations women hold because they have received free doses of Gardasil purchased by philanthropic foundations, by public health agencies or covered by insurance is the true threat to cervical cancer in the future. Should women stop Pap screening after vaccination, the cervical cancer rate will actually increase per year. Should women believe this is preventive for all cancers - something never stated, but often inferred by many in the population-- a reduction in all health care will compound our current health crisis. Should Gardasil not be effective for more than 15 years, the most costly public health experiment in cancer control will have failed miserably."
CDC continues to recommend Gardasil for girls and young women. The agency says the vaccine's benefits outweigh its risks and that it is an important tool in fighting a serious cancer.
Dr. Harper says the risk-benefit analysis for Gardasil in other countries may shape up differently than what she believes is true in the US. "Of course, in developing countries where there is no safety Pap screening for women repeatedly over their lifetimes, the risks of serious adverse events may be acceptable as the incidence rate of cervical cancer is five to 12 times higher than in the US, dwarfing the risk of death reported after Gardasil."
Copyright 2009 CBS. All rights reserved. Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It's highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved.
Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine's risk-versus-benefit profile. She says data available for Gardasil shows that it lasts five years; there is no data showing that it remains effective beyond five years.
Read Judicial Watch reports on Gardasil
Dr. LaPook's Story on HPV
Attkisson's Exclusive Report on Gardasil
This raises questions about the CDC's recommendation that the series of shots be given to girls as young as 11-years old. "If we vaccinate 11 year olds and the protection doesn't last... we've put them at harm from side effects, small but real, for no benefit," says Dr. Harper. "The benefit to public health is nothing, there is no reduction in cervical cancers, they are just postponed, unless the protection lasts for at least 15 years, and over 70% of all sexually active females of all ages are vaccinated." She also says that enough serious side effects have been reported after Gardasil use that the vaccine could prove riskier than the cervical cancer it purports to prevent. Cervical cancer is usually entirely curable when detected early through normal Pap screenings.
Dr. Scott Ratner and his wife, who's also a physician, expressed similar concerns as Dr. Harper in an interview with CBS News last year. One of their teenage daughters became severely ill after her first dose of Gardasil. Dr. Ratner says she'd have been better off getting cervical cancer than the vaccination. "My daughter went from a varsity lacrosse player at Choate to a chronically ill, steroid-dependent patient with autoimmune myofasciitis. I've had to ask myself why I let my eldest of three daughters get an unproven vaccine against a few strains of a nonlethal virus that can be dealt with in more effective ways."
Merck and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain Gardasil is safe and effective, and that adequate warnings are provided, cautioning about soreness at the injection site and risk of fainting after vaccination. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found while the overall risk of side effects appears to be comparable to other vaccines, Gardasil has a higher incidence of blood clots reported. Merck says it continues to have confidence in Gardasil's safety profile. Merck also says it's looking into cases of ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, reported after vaccination. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Merck and the CDC say there is currently no evidence that Gardasil caused ALS in the cases reported. Merck is also monitoring the number of deaths reported after Gardasil: at least 32. Merck and CDC says it's unclear whether the deaths were related to the vaccine, and that just because patients died after the shots doesn't mean the shots were necessarily to blame.
According to Dr. Harper, assessing the true adverse event risk of Gardasil, and comparing it to the risk of cervical cancer can be tricky and complex. "The number of women who die from cervical cancer in the US every year is small but real. It is small because of the success of the Pap screening program."
"The risks of serious adverse events including death reported after Gardasil use in (the JAMA article by CDC's Dr. Barbara Slade) were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. Indeed, the risks of vaccination are underreported in Slade's article, as they are based on a denominator of doses distributed from Merck's warehouse. Up to a third of those doses may be in refrigerators waiting to be dispensed as the autumn onslaught of vaccine messages is sent home to parents the first day of school. Should the denominator in Dr. Slade's work be adjusted to account for this, and then divided by three for the number of women who would receive all three doses, the incidence rate of serious adverse events increases up to five fold. How does a parent value that information," said Harper.
Dr. Harper agrees with Merck and the CDC that Gardasil is safe for most girls and women. But she says the side effects reported so far call for more complete disclosure to patients. She says they should be told that protection from the vaccination might not last long enough to provide a cancer protection benefit, and that its risks - "small but real" - could occur more often than the cervical cancer itself would.
"Parents and women must know that deaths occurred. Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in Dr. Slade's work, one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC, leaving the parents of the deceased teenagers in despair that the CDC is ignoring the very rare but real occurrences that need not have happened if parents were given information stating that there are real, but small risks of death surrounding the administration of Gardasil."
She also worries that Merck's aggressive marketing of the vaccine may have given women a false sense of security. "The future expectations women hold because they have received free doses of Gardasil purchased by philanthropic foundations, by public health agencies or covered by insurance is the true threat to cervical cancer in the future. Should women stop Pap screening after vaccination, the cervical cancer rate will actually increase per year. Should women believe this is preventive for all cancers - something never stated, but often inferred by many in the population-- a reduction in all health care will compound our current health crisis. Should Gardasil not be effective for more than 15 years, the most costly public health experiment in cancer control will have failed miserably."
CDC continues to recommend Gardasil for girls and young women. The agency says the vaccine's benefits outweigh its risks and that it is an important tool in fighting a serious cancer.
Dr. Harper says the risk-benefit analysis for Gardasil in other countries may shape up differently than what she believes is true in the US. "Of course, in developing countries where there is no safety Pap screening for women repeatedly over their lifetimes, the risks of serious adverse events may be acceptable as the incidence rate of cervical cancer is five to 12 times higher than in the US, dwarfing the risk of death reported after Gardasil."
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Gardasil was licensed June 8, 2006. Using numbers reflecting all reports in the US VAERS DATABASE from June of 2006 (Gardasil released on the market) until December 31, 2010.
Excluding Vaccination in Combination with Other Vaccines and in comparison to the % of adverse effects from Gardasil to the 73 other vaccines reported to VAERS during the sametime period.
THE TOP OFFENDER IS THE HPV VACCINE. #1 over the other 73 recorded vaccines. The HPV4 or Gardasil HPV Vaccine falls in the #1 category at 16% of the total database. The flu vaccine comes in a close second with 13% of the total database.
What is wrong with that picture!
The side effects listed on Mercks Gardasil packaging have incresed since it has been placed on the market. They have added additional side effects since it was originally published. Don't trust the published side affects.
There are definately problems with the HPV 4 or Gardasil vaccine as can be easily seen in the Government's VAERS stats and in the investigation information that was released last week.... http://sanevax.org/sane-vax-to-fda-recombinant-hpv-dna-found-in-multiple-samples-of-gardasil/
Go to www.sanevax.org for more HPV Vaccination statistics from the US Governments VAERS Database.
Here is a link to a presentation made by two members of the SANE Vax team at the British Society for Ecological Medicine - Look on the 2nd or third page. That is side effects that have been recorded by this non profit for Gardasil. http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SV-BSEM-Proceedings-Global-Concerns-about-HPV-vaccines-06.26.1121.pdf
Here are the latest VAERS STATS right out of the Governments database.
Description Total
Disabled 763
Deaths 103
Did Not Recover 4,777
Abnormal Pap Smear 430
Cervical Dysplasia 157
Cervical Cancer 41
Life Threatening 444
Emergency Room 9,115
Hospitalized 2,307
Extended Hospital Stay 201
Serious 3,111
Adverse Events 23,388
CBS News, you owe it to your audience to cover the other side of this story. Email info@sanevax.org if you are interested. The SANEVAX team will be glad to help.
As the mother of a child that was disabled by Gardasil, thank you for the opportunity to post here..
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8618-504763_162-20107489.html?assetTypeId=41&messageId=11312574&tag=contentMain;contentBody#ixzz1YIsoDV4P
www.psgr.org.nz
14 September 2011
Recall and Review of Gardasil Vaccine
The Ministry of Health must immediately recall and review the potentially life threatening Gardasil vaccine after 100% of 13 samples from several countries including New Zealand tested positive for HPV DNA and may remain in circulation.(1)
The Merck Sharpe and Dohme (NZ) vaccine Gardasil purportedly to prevent cervical cancer has been linked to many severe reactions.
The FDA vaccine events reporting site (VEARS) has 12,424 reports of adverse events following Gardasil vaccination. Of these, 772 were reports of serious events (6.2% of the reports) and the remaining 11,652 (93.8%) were classified as non-serious. In New Zealand at least one death has been attributed to the vaccine.
The discovery that some batches contain HPV DNA contradict the Medsafe data sheets statement that the vaccine does not contain viral DNA "virus-like particles are adsorbed onto an aluminium-containing adjuvant (amorphous aluminium hydroxyphosphate sulfate, or AAHS) ... Because the virus-like particles contain no viral DNA, they cannot infect cells or reproduce."
Dr Sin Hang Lee, a pathologist at the Milford Hospital pathology laboratory well-known for using cutting-edge DNA sequencing for molecular diagnoses, has said that "once a segment of recombinant DNA is inserted into a human cell, the consequences are hard to predict. It may be in the cell temporarily or stay there forever, with or without causing a mutation. Now the host cell contains human DNA as well as genetically engineered viral DNA."
SANE Vax Inc who detected this contamination event, have expressed concern over the prolonged circulation of the foreign recombinant (genetically engineered) DNA as it could use the body's cellular mechanisms as a host to keep replicating with unknown results. The vaccine was genetically engineered to produce "virus like" particles to provoke immunity.
1) http://sanevax.org/sane-vax-to-fda-recombinant-hpv-dna-found-in-multiple-samples-of-gardasil/
Ends
Gardasil vaccines appear to be contaminated with a genetically engineered Human Papillomavirus recombinant DN.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033585_Gardasil_contamination.html
My daughter has been seen by several neurologists, a psychiatrist, psychologist, several neuropsychologists, an immunologist, several infectious disease doctors, and also treated a at Wellness Center for a period of time. My daughter currently experiences the following symptoms: non-epileptic seizures, severe jerking movements of her whole body, especially her mouth and extremities, migraines, fainting, tremors, twitches, numbness, intermittent leg paralysis, hand/arm paralysis and facial paralysis, tingling, staring or blank episodes, eye pain, joint pain, neck pain, back pain, memory loss, confusion, brain fog, regression, mood swings and severe chronic fatigue. She continues to have bouts of nausea and diarrhea and stomach pain. She has not been in school since April 2008. My daughter cannot be left home alone. She cannot go to school, go out with her friends or work or has little "normalcy" in her life. She has very few good days and always says she doesn't feel good. Victoria should have graduated high school in June 2009 and would have been enrolled in college. I do not know which way to turn for help. We have seen so many doctors and I can't seem to find anyone willing to help my daughter. There are so many other young girls who have the same exact symptoms as my daughter and the one thing that all of the girls seem to have in common is the Gardasil vaccination.
We are on a fixed income, as most people, and we have expended many thousands of dollars in an effort to seek medical opinions and assistance. There are no "traditional medical doctors" who will relate my daughter's symptoms to Gardasil as I am told "there is not enough information available" about the vaccine and doctors believe it to be "safe". However, many doctors are all over the country are beginning to question the safety and also the effectiveness of the vaccine. Other ?doctor? are willing to "try" treatment, most of which is "homeopathic" in nature and extremely costly. Once again, I must reiterate that there are so many other young girls experiencing negative symptoms. Victoria and I have appeared on Fox news in August 2009, the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer in August 2009 and also the cover of Philadelphia Weekly newspaper. Each and every night, I check on my daughter many times in the middle of the night to make sure she is still breathing (like we ALL did when they were babies). I have a chime on her bedroom door so that every time she opens it, I know she has walked out of her room. I had a deadbolt put on the front door of our home with a key that can be removed from the inside. I never leave the key in the door for fear that Victoria will be confused after a seizure or when she has memory loss, and leave our home. (This has happened many times and she has been missing). When she is in the shower, I have to either stand outside the door and/or keep asking her "are you okay?" Each day, I cry and wonder if Victoria will be next one to die from adverse reactions to Gardasil.
We are in desperate need of medical treatment for my daughter. I have run out of ideas, doctors to treat with and finances have dwindled. I do not know which direction to turn. Any thoughts are most appreciated, especially from the medical community. There are greater than 15,000 reported cases of adverse effects from the vaccine which have been reported to the NVIC (many of the adverse effects are extremely serious) and approximately 38 deaths have been reported. Please feel free to forward this information.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Jodi Speakman
(267) 939-0591
I'm really sorry to hear about your daughter and her problem.
I have to tell you that from the description you posted above, there may be other problems involved. The vaccine has Thimerasol (Mercury) and probably every vaccine she has gotten for her full life has had it in the Vaccine.
Then, there is MSG,(Monosodium Glutimate), And also Aspartame, In all diet Sodas.
These toxins are the reason My wife had seizures for 35 years, and after we finally figured out they were causing her seizures, We stopped all food source with those Products in them and eat mostly Organic food now. She has had no seizures for over 9 months now. And that has been a blessing, as she had 3-4 Grand mall seizures a month for over 35 years.
She has never gone even one month with out seizures before we changed her diet.
We also take MMS every day, and MMS removes heavy metals and toxins from the brain and body. Mercury, MSG and Aspartame are all Neurotoxins and create damage to the brain and or Kill brain cells, which causes seizures in some people.
MMS is not approved for internal consumption by the FDA, but We have been taking it for over two years now and We both have not even had a cold since we started on it.
Many people take it daily and have changed their lives because of it.
The website to read about it is here
http://www.my-healthy.info/mms.htm and here
http://www.my-healthy.info/4u
I hope this will help you. My wifes doctor just nods when I told him but kind of won't believe me. The Doctors won't believe that changing the diet and removing all those poisonous chemicals from the food will help anyone heal from a disease. They are determined to believe that chemical pharmaceuticals are the answer.
I know that eating a natural diet has changed her life, like they could never do for her with their chemicals, for 35 years.
the HPV strain that causes genital warts is DIFFERENT from the strain that causes cervical cancer.
just because you get one, DOES NOT mean you get the other.
Guardasil DOES NOT protect you from the HPV strain that causes genital warts and it never claimed to.
But the largest information big Pharma is keeping from you is the alternative Natural substance that will destroy all pathogens, which virus and bacteria are known as.
The natural substance is MMS, also known as Chlorine dioxide, and I have been taking it for two years and it will keep your body safe from all pathogens and also removes toxins and heavy metals from your body.
MMS helps build your immune system and kills all bacteria and viruses, even MRSA, Herpies,AIDS, HIV virus, HPV virus and does it in short order.
These vaccines are dangerous and un-necessary. It is just a great money maker for Big Pharma. They are immune from being sued as GW Bush made that a Law last year. They won't tell you about MMS as they don't want you to know about it. Just go here to read about it.
http://www.my-healthy.info/mms.htm
It just may save your life or a loved ones. Copy and paste it in your browser address bar if it isn't live. I take it internally every day and I haven't even had a cold since I have been taken it.
We're discussing Gardasil here;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-bob-sears/vaccines-and-autism-what_b_279745.html?show_comment_id=30756481#comment_30756481
You may have to scroll a few pages to see all the important information & if you decide to join in it's easy to register. We can always use more help to bring truth to everyone. It's important we all do our part & speak out. We have to work towards letting others know the guinea pigs we've allowed our children to be.
There is actually help for our damaged children from the many toxins including too many vaccinations. Many try to keep us from knowing the alternatives now known to be authetinic as everyone can learn about by checking in on the "Living" section at Huffingtonpost.com.
Don't believe everthing your told is snake oil. Check it all out for yourself.
Concerning Merck;
Merck Wrote Drug Studies for Doctors
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/4/4/merck_wrote_drug_studies_for_doctors/
Here's a link that could be helpful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-bland/chronic-illness-what-work_b_281228.html?show_comment_id=30756567#comment_30756567