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Do You Understand the Risks of the HPV Vaccine?

The marketers of Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil would like you to believe that getting your daughter vaccinated can save her from HPV related illnesses like cervical cancer and genital warts. 

Nothing could be further from the truth! 

First of all, the Gardasil vaccine contains just four types of HPV out of the more than 100 strains. If you contract one of the 96+ types that aren’t included, you’re out of luck. And, if you’ve already been exposed to one of the four types of virus in the vaccine, it doesn’t work against those either. 

So, even if you accept the risks and get vaccinated, your chances of getting some form of HPV are still very high. Whether or not the HPV virus will lead to genital warts or cervical cancer, however, depends in large part on the state of your immune system.

Personally, I don’t see how the mediocre-at-best benefits of Gardasil could possibly outweigh its risks. 

As of last October, 3,461 complaints about Gardasil had been filed with the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Report System (VAERS), and 11 girls had died after exposure to the vaccine.  

I just checked the VAERS database as I sat down to write this article, and it now contains 6,760 adverse event reports, and 16 deaths. The numbers just continue to get worse. 

Get a Clue!!  

In my neck of the woods they call this increase a giant clue.  So if you haven’t already figured out to avoid this vaccine you will want to do more homework. Another point to consider is that you can’t sue the vaccine manufacturer if your child dies. 

These companies have cleverly manipulated the government so they are immune from prosecution and have made the U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for the hundreds of millions of dollars that are paid out to families of children who are harmed or killed every year from vaccines.  

Even though it is incredibly difficult — nearly impossible — to get one of these payments, there have already been more than $1.5 billion dollars given to affected families. So ponder on these stats if you haven’t already taken a firm position on the vaccine issue. 

How Does HPV Vaccine Kill?  

The causes of death include blood clots, acute respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and “sudden death” due to “unknown causes” shortly after receiving the vaccine. Clearly, no one knows the full extent of the biological harm that this vaccine inflicts. But I think most people would agree that teenagers don’t normally drop dead of natural causes.

Even more disturbing is the fact that these numbers don’t seem to shock or dismay officials. They’re “consistent with those expected from any vaccine.” 

According to the American Cancer Society, some 3,870 women will die from cervical cancer in the U.S. in 2008. Well. We’ve already lost 16 girls, some as young as 12, in the effort to spare them from the possibility of cervical cancer later in life.  

Surely I’m not the only one who sees that as morally reprehensible! And how many people have ever died from genital warts? 

Dr. Mercola

June 24, 2008 Posted by DrD | vaccines | , , , , , | No Comments

Some want personal vaccine exemption restored in Missouri

Some want personal vaccine exemption restored in Missouri

Saturday, March 1, 2008
By ANDALE GROSS ~ The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Darrel Drumright has worked in the health care field for 15 years, but he doesn’t trust immunizations.So for years, the Kansas City chiropractor and father of three has chosen not to vaccinate his children. His reason — on paper anyway — is religion. His family is Catholic, so they claim a religious exemption, which allows the kids to skip their shots.

But what Drumright really wants is to tell the truth: He and his wife are skeptical about vaccines and feel the shots required for such childhood diseases as measles and chicken pox could cause more harm than good.

At a time when more parents are using religious exemptions to opt out of getting their children vaccinated, he and others want Missouri to go back to allowing parents who don’t want to immunize their school-age children to do so without having to give a reason.

Drumright, 45, said he and others are pushing for a personal exemption — also known as a philosophical or conscientious exemption — this legislative session. They have been talking to legislators about the issue, hoping to spark support.

“The point of it is the parents should be in charge of the health care needs of their children,” said Drumright, whose daughter is 8 and sons are 6 and 4. “It’s not up to the state to dictate to parents how they should make important health-care decisions about their children.”

Sen. John Loudon, R-Chesterfield, said he’s considering backing a proposal for a personal exemption. He has headed similar efforts in the past, most recently in 2003.

“I am always open to it,” Loudon said of the idea of a personal exemption. “I think when a parent does their diligence and has cause for alarm, they should have the authority over government to control the health of their children.”

Earlier this month, Loudon refiled a bill that he said should help determine the level of support among legislators for a personal exemption.

Loudon’s bill deals with the issue of vaccine control, but as it relates to lawmakers, not parents. It seeks to give the legislature full control over mandating new vaccines. Under the proposal, state health officials still would control how vaccines that are already required are administered to children, but they could not add new mandatory vaccines without legislative approval.

Although the deadline for filing legislation in the Senate has passed, Loudon said he still would work with fellow legislators to get a personal exemption bill filed in the House if his vaccine control proposal is well-received. The chances of such a bill moving through the Legislature, however, decrease the longer they wait to get started.

Missouri parents once had the right to exempt their children from immunizations without needing to provide a reason. But the law changed in 1992, and now parents can only opt out of their kids’ shots for religious or medical reasons.

Drumright and other opponents of vaccines say medical exemptions can be difficult to get a doctor to sign off on, and religious exemptions put parents in an awkward position. They say parents might feel wrong about giving religion — though parents in Missouri can cite religion without having to declare a particular faith — as a reason if their resistance to vaccines has nothing to do with their faith.

The Associated Press has found that a small but growing number of parents around the country are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses.

“While you can never guarantee that immunizations will not cause a problem, they are extremely safe. But the diseases are not,” said Sue Denny, a spokeswoman with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. “It’s in the best interest of maintaining the health of not only school children but the rest of the population to have a high immunization rate.”

Denny said the health department has only seen a slight increase in the number of parents using the religious exemption in recent school years, while the number using the medical exemption has stayed about the same.

State health department records show that about 4,700 religious exemptions and more than 1,500 medical exemptions were claimed for Missouri students during the 2006-2007 school year, the most recent year in which data is available.

In the 15 years since Missouri’s vaccine exemption law changed, there have been moves to restore it but none were successful. Vaccine critics, both locally and nationally, think an exemption proposal could have a chance now.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an AP survey of state health departments, 20 states allow parents to cite personal or philosophical reasons for opting out of their children’s immunizations. The most recent to add a personal exemption was Texas in 2003.

“As more and more vaccines are being added to the list, that is where you’re getting some pushback by parents, and legitimately so,” said Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a vaccine safety watchdog agency in Vienna, Va.

She said parents are feeling pressured and powerless with all the vaccine mandates.

“The one-size-fits all approach to vaccinations … is simply not medically responsible,” Fisher said. “Parents have to be given more flexibility.”

Koreen Bowers, a mother of three from St. Louis, said she’s wrestling with whether she will claim a religious exemption to avoid certain vaccines for her oldest child, who starts kindergarten next school year. She wishes Missouri had a philosophical exemption like her home state, Minnesota.

“I think it just puts a little more control in the hands of concerned parents,” said Bowers, 39, a financial services worker. “It’s not just about being anti-vaccine. It’s about allowing parents to be a little more selective and be able to make an informed decision.”

Drumright said parents often are not aware they have options. They go with the notion that vaccines are mandatory and don’t think to question it, he said.

“We need an exemption where the parent can say ‘I’m an informed consumer’ and ‘No thank you,’ ” Drumright said.

March 1, 2008 Posted by DrD | vaccines | , , , | 3 Comments

Vaccine makers sued for Manslaughter!

vaccine, vaccination, shotA formal investigation has been launched by French authorities against two managers from drug companies GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur. A second investigation for manslaughter has also been opened against Sanofi Pasteur MSD.

The investigations are in response to allegations that the companies failed to fully disclose side effects from an anti-hepatitis B drug used between 1994 and 1998.

During this time, close to two-thirds of the French population, and almost all newborn babies, received a hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccination campaign was halted after concerns rose over the shot’s side effects.

Thirty plaintiffs, including the families of five people who died after the vaccination, have launched a civil action in the case against the drug companies.

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February 23, 2008 Posted by DrD | American Lifestyle, pediatrics, vaccines | , , , , , | 1 Comment

Are Vaccines Safe?

Do you really know what is in that little vile your government wants to inject into your child’s arm?

Does your doctor?

Do you know the politics behind this practice?

If you have children, or are thinking about taking a vaccine, please take some time to watch this well documented program before you let them jab you with that needle.

February 14, 2008 Posted by DrD | pediatrics, politics, vaccines | , , , , | 1 Comment

Mercury toxicity and autism are like mirror images of each other

Mercury toxicity and autism are like “mirror images of each other,” according to Dr. Kurt Woeller, an osteopathic physician in Temecula, California who focuses his practice on children on the autistic spectrum.Woeller believes that a series of childhood vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal is to blame for the rising numbers of autism in the United States.

“My suspicion is that the mother had a toxic mercury load that has filtered to the child, and the mercury-containing vaccine was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” he says.

Thimerosal has been banned in many countries, including Denmark, Great Britain, and Austria, for two decades, but the United States only recently reduced or eliminated thimerosal in vaccines for children 6 and younger. Flu vaccines in the United States still contain thimerosal.

Further, rates of autism increased when the Center for Disease Control added additions to the recommended vaccination program for infants in 1988. In the 1980s, autism rates were estimated at six in 10,000 children. Today, autism rates are one in 150 children, though some say autism affects closer to one in 50 children in some areas.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that thimerosal can be a neurotoxin, and in 2004 stated that thimerosal-containing vaccines were associated with autism. Nearly 5,000 families have filed lawsuits claiming that childhood vaccinations caused their children’s autism.

As of 2003, there were 1.5 million autistic U.S. children, and costs for their care is an estimated $90 billion per year.  Although they weill tell you they have removed mercury from current childhood vaccines, that is a trick on words.  YES, there are mercury free vaccines available the commonly used multivalent vaccines still contain mercury.

February 6, 2008 Posted by DrD | pediatrics, vaccines | , , | 9 Comments

Chicken Pox Vaccine causes a dangerous rise in number of Shingles cases

Research published in the International Journal of Toxicology (IJT) by Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., reveals high rates of shingles (herpes zoster) in Americans since the government’s 1995 recommendation that all children receive chicken pox vaccine.

Goldman’s research supports that shingles, which results in three times as many deaths and five times the number of hospitalizations as chicken pox, is suppressed naturally by occasional contact with chicken pox.

Dr. Goldman’s findings have corroborated other independent researchers findings that since death rates from chickenpox are already very low, any deaths prevented by vaccination will be offset by deaths from increasing shingles disease.  Dr. Goldman was also published in the journal Vaccine showing a cost-benefit analysis of the universal chicken pox (varicella) vaccination program. Goldman points out that during a 50-year time span, there would be an estimated additional 14.6 million (42%) shingles cases among adults aged less than 50 years, presenting society with a substantial additional medical cost burden of $4.1 billion. This translates into $80 million annually, utilizing an estimated mean healthcare provider cost of $280 per shingles case.

Both chicken pox and shingles are caused by the same varicella-zoster virus (VZV).  Adults receive natural boosting of thier defenses against shingles from contact with children infected with chicken pox.

Epidemiologists from the CDC are hoping “any possible shingles epidemic associated with the chickenpox vaccine can be offset by treating adults with a ’shingles’ vaccine.” This intervention would substitute for the boosting adults previously received naturally, especially during seasonal outbreaks of the formerly common childhood disease.

“Using a shingles vaccine to control shingles epidemics in adults would likely fail because adult vaccination programs have rarely proved successful,” said Goldman. “There appears to be no way to avoid a mass epidemic of shingles lasting as long as several generations among adults.”

Goldman’s analysis in IJT indicates that effectiveness of the chickenpox vaccine itself is also dependent on natural boosting, so that as chickenpox declines, so does the effectiveness of the vaccine. 

The common knowledge within the medical community has assumed the reason the frequency of shingles increased with age is due to the older individuals’ immune systems are declining. However, Goldman’s new research shows the real reason is due to the fact that older people received fewer natural boosts to immunity as their contacts with young children goes down.

Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D. served for eight years as a Research Analyst with the Varicella Active Surveillance Project conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS). The project was funded by the CDC.

February 6, 2008 Posted by DrD | geriatrics, pediatrics, vaccines | , , , , , | No Comments

Maryland officials threaten to jail parents that refuse vaccinations!!

Dear Prove members

What could the possible motivation be to threaten parents with jail time for not getting their children Hepatitis B and Chicken Pox Vaccines? Last week I called State’s Attorney of Prince George’s County Glenn Ivey’s office in Maryland to ask his office that question, and the answer I was given was for public health because “you wouldn’t want to be sitting next to someone with TB, would you?” Besides the fact that TB has nothing to do with this, we are talking about Hepatitis B and Chicken Pox - this district or any other one for that matter before the mandates weren’t seeing masses of kids hurt by these two diseases. I went on to explain that it was disappointing that the information coming out of his office in the early part of the week made no mention of the vaccine exemption. Later in the week, it was at least brought up as more parents contacted them to complain.

Rebecca called a reporter that had spent a lot of time researching the issue for his story and he went to some parents to try and figure out why their kids weren’t vaccinated. Some didn’t speak English as a primary language, and many were kids of working parents struggling just to get by day to day who complained their kids were vaccinated but there were paperwork mess ups by the school. In other words, these weren’t activist trying to make a statement - these were parents caught in the crosshairs of some other agenda because of yet another vaccine mandate.

Below is an account from Barbara Loe Fisher of NVIC who went straight to the frontlines on Saturday - the courthouse in MD - where parents had to have their kids vaccinated “or else” on Saturday. She gives a powerful image of police with dogs bullying parents who were there to witness and were not allowed into the courthouse to view the proceedings. Also posted below are some links to some YouTube Videos of parent activists who went to go watch and try to help but were denied access.

Again, what could possibly be behind this? There are several factors that could be at play, but the primary suspicion that stands out in my mind is money. So I called the communications department of the Prince George’s County School District to ask them specifically some questions about the amount of money the school district gets paid per child per day. They have not returned my call to answer the questions. Thankfully, the National Center for Education Statistics has some great information about Prince George’s County Public Schools online available to the public to anyone with an internet connection! (http://nces.ed.gov/)

According to this government website, in the 2006-2007 school year, Prince George’s County Public Schools received $11,325 per student per year!!! That is more than I pay for my kid’s private school tuition! The breakdown was 7% from federal money or $780, 46% from the state at $5246, and 47% from local revenue at $5298. Assuming a typical 180 day school year, that comes out to $63 per child per day of school attended. Why is this important information? If the Washington Post article that we sent out yesterday had the numbers correct when they said that 2300 kids are being barred from school, all of a sudden $63 per student per day turns into a astronomical loss of $144,900 PER DAY for the school district. That would light a fire under anyone’s backside to stop that hemorrhaging of loss of income, but it does not justify the way these families are being treated.

The take home message we’d like to send to the zealots in Maryland is please don’t patronize parents and tell them this about health, and whatever you do, don’t bully and scare them. Tell them the truth. Tell them you are desperate for the money in order to educate their kids, and in order for the money and educatioon to happen, the kids have to be in school and have their paperwork in order. Let them know about their rights to the limited exemptions available. Warn them about the real risks of the vaccines. Give them the choice they have granted by law. Let them know the chicken pox vaccine does not even work right anyway. Check out this article about a school in Round Rock Texas where in spite of kids all being vaccinated with the chicken pox vaccine, over 40 kids are out of the school with the chicken pox. http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=d00b9506-c3bb-43da-b25a-7a9971989969. Tell them that if they don’t want to have to deal with this year after year they need to contact their elected officials to stop every vaccine from coming out being tied to their child’s ability to receive an education.

When Governor Rick Perry tried to force all 6th grade girls in Texas to be vaccinated with the vaccine for the sexually transmitted virus HPV, thankfully the legislature knew better and effectively vacated his executive order saving the families in Texas the ill-effects of that mandate. Coming down the pipe are vaccines for everything from obesity, smoking, and drug addiction to vaccines for more sexually transmitted diseases like HIV for example. If they have to use police with dogs and the threat of jail time to get parents to get their kids vaccinated for chicken pox, what do you think they will feel they need to do to get every child shot up with an HIV vaccine? Read on and stay tuned…Conflicts of interest coming up soon…

What can you do in the meantime? Start off by making a vow to yourself to take an active roll in making sure that people who support forced vaccination and trampling on parental rights don’t get elected. Just a reminder that Glenn Ivey was elected into office in Maryland. If you aren’t already on it, get on our email list at http://www.vaccineinfo.net, get on NVIC’s e-newsletter at http://www.nvic.org, and go to Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s website at http://www.nmaseminars.com/ and join the Coalition Against Mandatory Vaccination so together we can all be educated about these issues and work together to stop the insanity.

Sincerely, Dawn Richardson, PROVE

YouTube Videos by parent activists at the courthouse on Saturday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Vj0EX_STU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqUgno6iN4

November 20, 2007 Posted by DrD | vaccines | | No Comments