See, I Told You So!
Okay, okay. I'm not supposed to say that. At least, that's what I repeatedly tell my kids. But I did tell you so.
World News Daily recently published an article revealing that Judicial Watch has studied adverse reaction reports to the new HPV vaccine, Gardasil, which the California Legislature was earlier trying to make mandatory for all 6th graders, and found some serious problems.
Judicial Watch found 1,637 adverse reactions, of which three were deaths of the person vaccinated, and 18 involved death or malformation of the fetus of pregnant women who had been vaccinated. Other adverse reactions included paralysis, coronary problems, and severe breathing problems. All told, Judicial Watch logged 371 serious reactions. (It is important to recognize as well, that most people in the medical field believe that adverse vaccine reactions are vastly under-reported.)
According to Judicial Watch, ""Side effects published by Merck & Co. warn the public about potential pain, fever, nausea, dizziness and itching after receiving the vaccine. Indeed, 77 percent of the adverse reactions reported are typical side effects to vaccinations. But other more serious side effects reported include paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre syndrome (a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system), and seizures." Of the 42 pregnant women who were vaccinated, 18 had either spontaneous abortion or fetal malformation.
Now, if this vaccine were protecting people from an illness with a high fatality rate, it might be worth the risk involved to receive this drug. However, given that HPV is a sexually-transmitted disease -- that it, it is behaviorally transmitted -- to vaccinate all girls in the state of California because they might someday get HPV and might someday after that develop cervical cancer is insane. Of the 20 million cases of HPV in the U.S., 10,000 cases of cervical cancer develop every year. HPV is not a sentence to develop cervical cancer, and Gardasil is not a prevention for cervical cancer. In addition, it now looks like the vaccine will only "last" four to six years, so it will require frequent boosters, with the attendant risks at each vaccination.
You might not think three deaths is that significant. (Indeed, I don't know the total number of vaccinations given.) But if this were your little girl, being given a vaccine she doesn't need to keep her healthy, would you think her death was insignificant? This is another lesson in the need for parents to think for themselves and do what they decide is right rather than hand over their responsibilities to doctors or the government.
Needless to say, our daughter will not be receiving this vaccine.