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The New England Journal of Medicine Questions Distributing HPV Vaccines
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by Karen Hatter | September 4, 2008 at 04:42 am
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This article states that the New England Journal of Medicine has posted articles questioning the distribution of GARDASIL, manufactured by Merck & Co. Inc and Cervarix, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, the two leading human papilloma virus vaccines being dispensed to girls and women worldwide.
From the article:
The New England Journal of Medicine posted two articles this week that asked why two human papillomavirus vaccines have been so widely distributed given their unproven effectiveness and high costs.
Studies have been underway for the distribution of HPV vaccines in the male population worldwide.
From my article, What's the Latest News on GARDASIL? :
Human papilloma viruses, more commonly called HPVs, are numerous genotypes causing various human warts, like the common warts found on hands and feet, plantar warts, and genital warts, including some 15 known strains associated with the production of cervical cancer.
Makers of the drug and its proponents have been claiming GARDASIL prevents cervical cancer, an unsubstantiated claim as girls and women involved in initial drug trials, who numbered less than 30,000, were not tracked until the usual age of the onset of cervical cancer, which occurs between the ages of 35 to 45. The average length of follow up study was less than five years.
A link to the article entitled, Human Papilloma Vaccination - Reasons for Caution, appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine.
An extract from an article, Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Males, can be found here.
Both articles appear in the August 21, 2008 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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at 05:13 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I read a study about that vaccine from Merck, that was rather positive and supported by the Canadian health control association, however that is already at least 5 years old. Canada is vaccinating and the equivalent of the US FDA in Canada is fully endorsing the Vaccine as well as the UN if I recall this correctly.
at 05:33 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:24 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:05 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 07:25 on September 4th, 2008
It couldn't be the money could it?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he only was thinking of the children when he attempted to include the vaccine in mandatory school vaccinations.
The plan was defeated after a fundamentalist outcry that such vaccinations would be, in effect, a green flag for teen and pre-marital sex.
at 08:36 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I think it's so much better to offer these vaccines than not offer them or only make them available to people that can pay for them. I guess that's not evident to everyone however.
at 08:40 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff. It's a wonderful vaccine -- if it's effective and doesn't have nasty side effects. What I don't understand is why it's not being offered to males as usually the girls get it from heterosexual contact. While I think some vaccinations should be mandatory if students attend public school, I don't think this is one of them.
at 09:16 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff. A very interesting post. Thanks. Biologists usually make the case for vaccination. The reason being that even though there might be risks and side effects associated with vaccines, these are far less probable than the risk of actually contracting the virus and developing the disease. We tend to accept side effects that may result from the treatment drugs we take, and yet we can't get over the idea of a vaccine potentially making us less healthy.
at 10:12 on September 4th, 2008
I thank you all for reading this and for the flags.
Also from my article, What's the Latest News on GARDASIL? :
Concerns have been raised by physicians noting the possibility that vaccination against two of fifteen known HPV strains linked to cancer may result in other strains becoming more aggressive.
( In an article linked at the above mentioned post, it states) ".... cervical cancer among the age groups of girls and women in the United States being vaccinated with GARDASIL, girls and women between the ages of 9 and 26, is rare, with approximately 3 to 4 cases per 100,000 or 30 to 40 cases of cervical cancer per 1 million girls and women or .00003% to .00004% ( 3 to 4 hundred thousandths of one percent) reported in that age category."
Any life lost is a tragedy yet, the question arises, if 90% of the cases of HPV infection are eliminated in women by their own immune systems, with only, in rare cases, a small fraction of the remaining 10% of women developing cervical cancer, why should this drug be mandatory?
The targeted age groups vaccinated are not the age group when cervical cancer appears. Neither of these drugs have been shown to prevent cancer. Not enough data over the long term has been collected to support any claims regarding that direct result. The length of the efficacy of these shots have not been determined nor whether boosters will be required.
To date, around 8,000 adverse reactions have been reported, mainly relayed by those who have received GARDASIL shots, among those being: paralysis, seizures, nerve related damage and some deaths.
Until all of the political and monetary ties to all who hurriedly push these drugs onto the public are exposed, and investigated by independent investigators, making HPV or any newly marketed drugs mandatory, close monitoring is required of these ongoing, possibly dangerous, realities.
at 09:32 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
i still think this vaccine is a bad idea especially if they make it mandatory. let people voluntarily take it for twenty or so years and then see what the long term side affects are. as it is i wouldn't recommend it to any of my family and i certainly would never take it myself even if it was deemed safe for males. There is too much of a frenzy whipped up around it, too many unknowns. it's not an AIDS cure so why is being produced so quickly like it was?
at 11:52 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:17 on September 4th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:21 on September 4th, 2008
It will be interesting to see how things work out when all of the class actions start.
at 18:04 on September 4th, 2008
The FDA denied approving GARDASIL for use in 27 to 45 year old women earlier this year. That will limit the number of litigants.
at 08:57 on October 12th, 2008
Hello.
:) The natural photo of the new arrival, taken by Emma Tallulah's dad,
Bye.