Even though Merck's Gardasil and GSK's Cervarix are highly advertised to doctors and patients, many women are just saying no to the vaccines, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research in Philadelphia last month.
The vaccines protect against the Human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus which causes cervical cancer.
In 2007, 12,280 women in the U.S. were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 4,021 died.
Fewer than one-third of 9,658 teenagers and young women who were eligible for the vaccine actually began the three-injection series between 2006 and 2010, according to data analyzed at the University of Maryland. Others started the regimen but didn't get their second or third injection.
Of course there are many reasons women may veto the vaccine for themselves or their children. Even though the vaccine is nearly 100 percent effective in preventing precancerous cervical lesions and protects against the two HPV strains that cause 70 percent of cervical cancers and 90 percent of genital warts, it isn't effective against all HPV strains. It is also not more effective against cervical cancer than a Pap smear and even when it does work, may require a booster. Nor do researchers know how long protection lasts.
The HPV vaccine is also the most expensive of all recommended vaccines at $359.25 for all three doses says Pew Research.
And then there's the morality issue.
"I was greatly offended that Merck suggest I vaccinate my nine-year-old daughter against an STD," says Kelley Watson, a mother of two in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. "Especially insulting to me was that there was never any mention of HPV as being a sexually transmitted disease. It was presented as something women can contract through tampons or nylon stockings -- as if men played no part."
Actually, men's part in transmitting HPV is beginning to be acknowledged. Last year FDA also cleared the vaccine for boys, in whom the virus can cause genital warts and anal cancer. Even when an individual declines vaccination, his or her chances of infection are lessened as more people, both men and women, vaccinate -- a concept called herd immunity.
But mostly, people are spurning the HPV vaccine because of its safety record. Or lack of safety record.
In addition to causing fainting, allergic reactions, Guillain-Barré Syndrome and blood clots, 56 girls have died from the vaccine as of September says the CDC. 14-year-old Natalie Morton died last year, soon after being vaccinated for HPV at her school in Coventry, UK though authorities now say she died of a tumor. And the vaccine was suspected in the deaths of six children in trials in India last April.
Critics ask why the primary endpoint in trials was not cervical cancer, but lesions that could become malignant and why placebo data was spun to make the vaccine look more effective.
And medical professionals increasingly question the safety of organomercurial thimerosal and aluminum salt adjuvants in vaccines and the possibility of zoonotic DNA transfer. Earlier this year FDA found pig virus in rotavirus vaccines made by both Merck and GSK, given to infants to protect against severe diarrhea and dehydration. Oops.
There are also transparency questions. Why did former First Lady Laura Bush work with Merck-funded citizen front groups to promote the original vaccine and why are governors like Texas' Rick Perry trying to mandate vaccination of all girls?
University of Queensland lecturer Dr. Andrew Gunn was silenced by his university when he dared to question the vaccine and ordered to apologize to the vaccine maker, CSL, according to the Courier Mail</em>. Dr. Gunn expressed doubts about the vaccine's "marketing as a solution to cancer of the cervix when at best it's expected to prevent about two-thirds of cases" and "the incorrect and dangerous perception that it might make Pap smears unnecessary; and the difficult question of the best age to give a vaccine whose effect might yet prove to wear off before many recipients even start having sex."
And one of Gardasil and Cervarix' original developers, Dr. Diane Harper, a consultant to the World Health Organization, also questioned the vaccine's lack of safety and effectiveness at last year's 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination in Reston, Virginia only to appear to retract her remarks later.
It's no secret that Big Pharma is pushing vaccines as many of its expensive blockbuster pills go off patent or are no longer waved through by insurers. Drug companies are even marketing the HPV vaccine in poor countries whose real problems are malaria, potable water or Dengue fever.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, which doctors are required to take to keep their licenses but are widely criticized as being Big Pharma commercials, have also been promoting the vaccine.
One, which ran on the CME giant Medscape, was titled "Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine May Be Effective in Women 24 to 45-Years-Old" and granted credits for "studying" a Lancet article written by authors that included two Merck employees.
"What was the main conclusion of the current study," the CME asks takers of the course as if they're at a time-share presentation instead of clinicians. Upon completion on this activity, you'll be able to "specify the currently recommended age range for the administration of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine," the doctors are told.
The vaccine is also promoted directly to consumers. Poster-sized ads for Gardasil ran this spring on Chicago's CTA trains pretending to sell real estate in sought after neighborhoods. A closer look revealed descriptions of women in those neighborhoods who thought they didn't need the HPV vaccine but did. And, in March GSK rolled out Cervarix at the 2010 Oscars as if it were a fancy perfume.
In October, GSK even launched TV ads depicting twenty something women flashing "cool" Cervarix tattoos in front of the camera that read "armed against cervical cancer."
Some would say we need to be armed against such advertising.
William Schaffner, M.D.: 'Have We Politicized Our Public Health?'
Patricia Yarberry Allen: HPV Risk In Older Women
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: HPV Vaccine: Why Are So Few People Getting Vaccinated?
CDC - Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
HPV vaccine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GARDASIL® [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and ...
Gardasil HPV Vaccine Faces Safety Questions - ABC News
Physicians Avoid Recommending HPV Vaccine in Girls Aged 11 to 12 Years
http://www.naturalnews.com/031279_HPV_vaccines_One_More_Girl.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCVCP8BFrU
Do we begin to understand now what possessed Smerck to put Hepatitis B vaccine and aluminum in the “placebo” arms of several of the pivotal studies upon which their HPV vaccine was approved? Hep B vaccine used VLPs. There is a tacit assumption that VLP technology, polysorbate 80, and aluminum are “safe”. Without a true placebo controlled study, this assumption has quite simply NEVER BEEN PROVEN.
http://kck.st/fWx2H1
And, anyway, no one is left here except for Sheldon, Dyson, and (maybe) Paul. You are wasting your time. Regards,
http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html
Vaccines simply take advantage of the innate intelligence of the human immune system without that nasty getting sick first part.
With very few exceptions, vaccine opponents don't criticize the logic of vaccination.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030299_vaccination_flu_shots.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zo3lnlnsUI
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/#Meas_ScarlFev_etc
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4Zo3lnlnsUI&h=94db3
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/#Meas_ScarlFev_etc
http://childhealthsafety.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/measlesmortalityusa1971-75_1.jpg
As anyone can see, measles cases were a constant 400 per 100 thousand population for many decades, then dropping to 10 per 100 thousand in the 1960s.
http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/graphs/#Meas_Mort_UK_USA
"A rotavirus vaccine protects children from rotaviruses, which are the leading cause of severe diarrhea among infants and young children.[1] Each year more than 500,000 children die from diarrhoeal disease caused by rotavirus,[2] and another two million are hospitalised.[3] Nearly every child in the world will suffer an episode of diarrhea caused by rotavirus before age five.[4] Although the severity of rotavirus infections differs between children living in developed and developing countries, the rates of infection is similar in both settings. [5] Clean water supplies and good hygiene have little effect on the transmission of infection, and further improvements are unlikely to prevent disease. [5] Safe and effective vaccines are needed, especially in poorer countries where most deaths from the disease occur. [6] " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotavirus_vaccine#Effectiveness
But the incidence of rotavirus in the United States in recent years. Why? Because of the approval and widespread use of rotavirus vaccines.
Polysorbate 80 injected into prepubescent rats caused a rapid growth of reproductive organs, but growth was abnormal and the rats were sterile. According to the Polysorbate 80 MSDS, it may be a carcinogenic, as well as a mutagenic.
Sodium Borate is a dangerous poison. Two of the medical uses of the past were for disinfecting wounds, until people started dying from repeated cleaning, and cleaning nursery's, (until too many babies started dying). Sodium borate is also used as a roach killer.
It's harmful enough to ingest sodium borate, let alone inject it directly into the blood stream.
Gardasil contains 225 cmg of aluminum in each shot. There are 3 injections in each vaccine that is 675cmg of aluminum. Aluminum is a powerful neurotoxin.
According to the medical textbook studied by medical doctors, Gray's Anatomy, 29th Ed., page 4, "the nervous system controls and coordinates all organs and structures of the human body", that includes the immune system. There is a direct link between the central nervous system and the immune system known as "psychoneuroimmunolo
gy" : http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec01/anewtake.aspx
Aluminum interferes with the functioning of the central nervous system weakens the immune system. A weak immune system decreases the body's ability to fight off all infections and all types of cancers including HPV and cervical cancer.
http://healthrecipes.com/immune_system.htm
You have evidence for that outlandish claim (ie a peer reviewed scientific publication)?
http://www.google.com/m/url?ei=lZUlTYCpHIaUtgfg_sGTAQ&q=http://www.vaccinetruth.org/new_page_3.htm&ved=0CCwQFjAJ&usg=AFQjCNHi8hF1ekCjJ_ILg2hlStW70u3prg
Merck presents more flawed data:
http://holyhormones.com/womens-health/cervical-cancer/gardasil-merck-presents-more-flawed-data-fda-grants-extended-use/
• Why HPV infections are self-limiting and pose no real danger in healthy women.
• How Big Pharma promoted its Gardasil vaccine using disease mongering and fear mongering."
Gardasil hoax exposed: http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html#ixzz19naR5MTG
http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html#ixzz19naR5MTG
If you want we can have another googlefight about this:
""HPV causes cervical cancer" - 194000 results.
""HPV does not cause cervical cancer" - 23600 results.
Again, "the world", as you call it, says you are wrong.
"The system no longer cares what happens to the children of the world, just as long as the vaccine targets are met and the profits roll in."
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/191931
"The system cares what happens to the children of the world"