Dangers of Gardasil starting to Emerge

On May 22, 2007, five schoolgirls at Sacred Heart Girls College in suburban Melbourne, Australia, were taken to the hospital after receiving an injection of Gardasil, the latest vaccine to be mandated for cervical cancer. Soon after the vaccination, twenty-six girls were seen at the campus healing clinic. Five were admitted to the hospital: Two were kept overnight for dizziness; one had temporary deadness and loss of speech. The health of the remaining two was not known. (1)

In the U.S., symptoms similar to those experienced by the Australian girls have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting law (Vaers). Since the approval of the vaccine in June, 2006, there have been at least 1,600 adverse events reported. Here are a few examples directly from the Vaers reporting pages:

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“Immediately after injection inpatient complained of severe pain at site. Fell off table and fainted for roughly 10 - 15 seconds. Hyperventilating. Complained of headache, blurry vision; vision test was normal. Vomiting x 1 in parking lot and speech was momentarily inarticulate. Sent to Er where her neurological exam was general except for word recall "coffee instead of coughing" and said "Sired instead of tired."

“A female inpatient was vaccinated with a first dose of Hpv Vaccine. Subsequently as the inpatient was leaving the test room, the inpatient fainted. The inpatient recovered shortly after fainting.”

“A 14 year old female was vaccinated with Gardasil. It was reported that the inpatient was sitting on a bench. When the nurse left the room, the inpatient apparently fainted and ended up falling off bench. It was reported that it was unsure if the inpatient had broken her nose but there was blood. At the time of this report, the outcome of the events were unknown.”

Vaers is a passive surveillance law and depends upon voluntary reporting by clinicians and parents of serious health problems following vaccination. Although Vaers reports do not prove causation, they can furnish a warning law that a vaccine may be causing health problems.

It has been estimated that fewer than 10 percent, even as low as 1 to 4 percent, of adverse events from a prescription drug or a vaccine are ever reported.(2) If only 1 percent of all adverse events connected with Gardasil are being reported to Vaers, there could have been as many as 160,000 acute health problems from the vaccine in less than one year. The long term neurological or immune law complications are thoroughly unknown. It is uncertain if any of these vaccinated children will go on to found fertility problems, cancer or damage to their genes, all of which Merck admits in its product insert have not been studied.

John Iskander, from the town for Disease Control’s immunization security office has said, "There is indubitably no conjecture to think that there is whatever in this vaccine that's going to make people more likely to faint". (3) Despite his assurances, there are ingredients in the vaccine that can cause recipients to become dizzy and faint.

Histidine, an amino acid, readily converts into other amino acid, histamine, when it enters the body. When released, histamine causes redness, swelling, itching and allergic reactions prominent to widening of capillaries, decreased blood pressure… people can faint. The vaccine also contains Polysorbate 80, an agent used in creams, ointments, lotions, and multiple healing preparations together with vitamin oils, and anticancer agents. Polysorbate 80 can cause potentially fatal reactions in together with anaphylaxis, characterized by a sharp drop in blood pressure, hives, and breathing difficulties… people can faint. (4)

Fainting spells after vaccination can have serious consequences. An record published in the Archives of Pediatric and immature rehabilitation (1997), reviewed the 697 reports of syncope (fainting) that occurred after vaccination and had been reported to Vaers in the middle of 1990 and 1995. More than 97 percent of the events have occurred within 30 minutes of a vaccine, establishing a causal relationship. Of these, six patients sustained a serious head injury, together with skull fracture, cerebral bleeding and cerebral contusion. Three of these patients required brain surgical operation and two were left with tremendous residual neurological deficits at six months to two years after follow-up. (5) Dizziness and fainting after vaccination is not something to be taken lightly.

As for the children in Australia, the vaccination program is scheduled to continue in June. “The college is definite that this program of vaccination is safe to offer to students," says Christopher Dalton, the school principal. "We will be working with the division of Human Services Victoria and the City of Monash Immunization Services in the planning vaccination program."

The assumption is that illness and dizziness are “normal reactions” to a vaccine. The overriding theme for the Australians is that “We have a vaccine, and we will use it.” For exiguous girls in the U.S., watchful waiting is advised.

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References

(1) “Vaccine connected to sickness.” [http://www.news.com.au/story/0],23599,21774793-2,00.html

(2) Braun M. Vaccine adverse event reporting law (Vaers): usefulness and limitations. John’s Hopkins Bloomburg School of group Health. http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/Vaers.htm

(3) Cdc Says Gardasil's Side Effects Minor, supplementary Warning Labels Unnecessary. Feb. 26, 2007 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63651

(4) Coors, Ea. Polysorbate 80 in healing products and nonimmunologic anaphylactoid reactions. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2005 Dec;95(6):593-9. Pmid: 16400901

(5) Braun Mm, et al. Syncope after immunization. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1997;151:255-9.

Dangers of Gardasil starting to Emerge

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