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Outcry in Australia Over Adverse Side-effects of Gardasil, the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
December 06, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Cancer News
First it was the anti-arthritis Vioxx, then the osteoporosis drug Fosamax and now the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil.
MORE than 17 girls a week have been experiencing adverse reactions such as seizures and numbness, after taking Gardasil, since it became widely distributed in April, Australian newspapers report.
But the Department of Health and Ageing, while revealing the number of reactions, is refusing to release the details of them - despite growing controversy overseas, including links to at least seven deaths.
There have been previous reports in Australia of young girls fainting, experiencing seizures, dizzy spells and paralysis, including 20 students at a Melbourne private school who reported being sick after having an injection in late May.
The Daily Telegraph s that as of November 30 there have been 496 adverse reaction reports filed to the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA).
Of those, 468 of the reported cases had the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine as the sole suspected cause.
In the US there have been reports of up to 1700 women suffering adverse reactions after being vaccinated.
"Young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision and some girls have lost consciousness during what appear to be seizures," said Vicky Debold, health policy analyst for the National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog organization that was created in the early 1980s to prevent vaccine injuries.
But other experts contend the vaccine would have a positive impact. Various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which spreads through sexual contact, are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. The cervical cancer vaccine specifically blocks two cancer-causing types of HPV types 16 and 18 to get at the root cause of the cancer. In essence, the cervical cancer vaccine stops cervical cancer before even the first step can begin.
The cervical cancer vaccine also blocks HPV types 6 and 11, which are not associated with cervical cancer but are associated with genital warts and mild Pap test abnormalities. A study presented by Gardasil's manufacturer in September 2007 says that the vaccine provides partial protection from a number of additional strains of HPV as well.
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we have people in high places
calling on the Minister for Health
to bring in the HPV VACCINE for
little girls.
There seems to be a news black-
out regarding the reported side
effects of this vaccine