[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Gardasil has 18 deaths; Women support right to know in SD

Wed Jul 2 06:12:21 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 2 Jul 2008 AD

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July 01, 2008
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Death toll linked to Gardasil vaccine rises*

Complications include shock, 'foaming at mouth,' convulsions, coma

"Anaphylactic shock," "foaming at mouth," "grand mal convulsion," "coma" 
and "now paralyzed" are a few of the startling descriptions included in 
a new federal report describing the complications from Merck & Co.'s 
Gardasil medication for sexually transmitted human papillomavirus -- 
which has been proposed as mandatory for all schoolgirls.

The document was obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by 
Judicial Watch, a Washington group that investigates and prosecutes 
government corruption, and it has details of 10 deaths just since September.

"Given all the questions about Gardasil, the best public health policy 
would be to re-evaluate its safety and to prohibit its distribution to 
minors. In the least, governments should rethink any efforts to mandate 
or promote this vaccine for children," said Judicial Watch President Tom 
Fitton.

The organization's work uncovered reports of about one death each month 
since last fall, bringing the total death toll from the drug to at least 
18 and as many as 20. There also were 140 "serious" reports of 
complications including about three dozen classified as 
life-threatening, 10 spontaneous abortions and half a dozen cases of 
Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

The document reveals the case of an 18-year-old woman who got the 
Gardasil vaccine, was found unconscious that evening, and died. Another 
woman, age 19, got the drug and the next morning was found dead in her bed.

The new documents also reveal a total of 8,864 Vaccine Adverse Event 
Reporting System records, up from a total of 3,461 that had been 
reported in a document just last fall.

WND previously has reported how Merck was lobbying state lawmakers to 
require the vaccination, but said it would quit the campaign after its 
activities were unveiled.

WND also reported when a key researcher into human papillomavirus, which 
is targeted by Gardasil, reported it needed more testing, and how even 
the Centers for Disease Control suggested the vaccine should not be 
mandatory.

That, however, has not diverted the building campaign to have 
legislatures adopt mandatory vaccination plans.

Judicial Watch said one of the reports, VAERS ID: 310262-1 (D), had this 
to say:

"Information has been received...concerning a 20-year-old female with no 
medical history reported, who on 01-APR-2008 was vaccinated with a dose 
of Gardasil....The patient died four days after...patient sought 
unspecified medical attention. An autopsy was performed which ruled out 
suicide and anything suspicious."

Another report said, "Information has been received from a physician 
concerning a female patient who on an unknown date was vaccinated with a 
dose of Gardasil. Subsequently, the patient experienced a coma and is 
now paralyzed. At the time of this report, the patient's outcome was 
unknown. VAERS ID: 303188-1"

The target of the vaccine is cervical cancer, since studies show that 
those who have HPV have a higher chance of later developing cervical 
cancer. However, opponents note that such cancers develop most often in 
older women, while the plan is to require girls as young as 11 or 12 
years old to be inoculated. They cite the lack of evidence that the 
vaccine would have an impact later in life.

A Judicial Watch report said, "Even though Gardasil will not be fully 
tested for safety until 2009, physicians are already pushing it as a 
routine, harmless vaccine. Merck's aggressive advertisement campaign 
tells young girls that their lives could be 'one less' affected by 
cervical cancer and that, 'It's your turn to help guard against cervical 
cancer.'"

The report also estimated it will cost as much as $2 billion to buy 
vaccinations for the nation's poorest girls.

"This vaccine will be more expensive than all other childhood vaccines 
put together," concluded John Schiller, a National Cancer Institute 
investigator.

Judicial Watch earlier uncovered reports such as this:

"Initial and follow-up information has been received from a physician 
concerning an 'otherwise healthy' 13 year old female who was vaccinated 
with her first and second doses of Gardasil. Subsequently, the patient 
experienced ... paralysis from the chest down, lesions of the optic 
nerve...At the time of the report, the patient had not recovered."

Officials with the Abstinence Clearinghouse noted in a position paper 
that groups including the Texas Medical Association, the American 
Academy of Pediatrics, the Association of American Physicians and 
Surgeons, and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine have come 
out publicly against mandatory vaccination.

"The reasoning of these medical associations is clear. They are not 
opposed to medical progress, and certainly support all efforts to combat 
life-threatening diseases. The problem, as these organizations see it, 
lies in the fact that the drug only went through three and a half years 
of testing, leaving the medical community somewhat in the dark as to 
what serious adverse effects might result in the long term," the group 
said at the time.

"Along with the potential of serious adverse effects is the question of 
efficacy. There is evidence that after approximately four years, the 
vaccine's potency significantly declines. The long-term value of the 
vaccine has yet to be determined; if it wears off within six years, will 
girls and women need to repeat the battery of injections they originally 
received?" the organization wondered.

Michigan was the first state to introduce a plan to require the vaccine 
to be given to young girls, but the proposal failed. Ohio also 
considered a failed plan in 2006.

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Women of 'Operation Outcry' Applaud Judges Requiring Abortionists to 
Tell Women the Truth

MEDIA ADVISORY, July 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- The United States Court 
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on June 27th upheld South Dakota's 
statute requiring abortionists to tell a woman that "the abortion will 
terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," 
defined as a member of the human species (Homo sapiens).

Tracy Reynolds, of Operation Outcry, stated: "The statute simply gives a 
woman the biological, scientific facts that the developing organism in 
her womb is a human being."

The most basic question many women ask before an abortion is "Is it a 
baby?" One would assume that abortionists and courts would be able to 
answer this question. However, Planned Parenthood does not want to tell 
women abortion kills a human being. They consistently do not tell women 
that abortion is being performed on a human being, a member of the 
species Homo sapiens, a living organism.

The women of Operation Outcry are extremely pleased that the Courts are 
now listening to real women who have been hurt by abortion and beginning 
to protect women from abortionists, rather than listening only to 
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider. The women of 
Operation Outcry and other women are also extremely pleased that the 
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals cited the portion of the Supreme Court's 
recent Gonzales v. Carhart decision in which the testimony of 
post-abortive women of Operation Outcry was cited to show that "some 
women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once 
created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow."

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals cited this Supreme Court passage on 
page 16 of its opinion.

This citation of post-abortive women's pain by the courts demonstrates 
again that the voices of the women of Operation Outcry are beginning to 
have a deep and long lasting impact on the courts of the United States.

Approximately 2,000 legally admissible testimonies collected by 
Operation Outcry from women who have had abortions were given to the 
South Dakota legislature and have become part of the legislative history 
of that state. The South Dakota Task Force Report on Abortion is the 
first government study in thirty years to exhaustively study the effects 
of abortion on women, listening to both pro-abortion and pro-life sides, 
but most importantly listening to women who actually experienced 
abortions and concluding that abortions do significantly damage women. 
See South Dakota Task Force Report at www.operationoutcry.org 
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Lisa Dudley, Director of Outreach for Operation Outcry, and one who has 
suffered from abortion herself, said: "I am thrilled that the courts 
have taken an important step towards protecting women's lives. Women 
ought to at least be told the truth that they are killing a human being 
even if the law gives them the right to do so."

A copy of the opinion is available on our website, 
www.operationoutcry.org 
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Christian Newswire 
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	To: National Desk

Contact: Tracy Reynolds, Media Liaison, Operation Outcry, The Justice 
Foundation, 210-614-7157, 650-400-0436 cell, info at txjf.org

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