Dr. Mercola August 02 2008 143,871 views
A month after 13 year old Jenny Tetlock was vaccinated against the HPV virus, she missed the lowest hurdle in gym class. It was the first sign of a degenerative muscle disease that 15 months later left her nearly completely paralyzed.
Her father, Philip Tetlock, a professor at UC-Berkeley, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine, Gardasil, is to blame.
Tetlock is not the only one concerned. The public watchdog group Judicial Watch has been periodically obtaining adverse event reports on Gardasil from the FDA. 10 deaths have been linked to Gardasil since September 2007, and there have been 140 reports so far this year of serious side effects such as miscarriage and Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Once you educate yourself and know the facts about Gardasil, the truth about HPV, and the statistics of cervical cancer, it will become quite clear just how outrageously useless -- and dangerous -- this vaccine really is.
The FDA, in not-so-rare form, insists there's no medical reason to be worried about the side effects of Gardasil. "We're monitoring the safety of the HPV vaccine very carefully, and the only adverse event that causes some concern is fainting after the vaccine," says Robert Ball, director of the FDA's office of biostatistics and division of epidemiology.
He continues to say, “Higher rates of Guillain-Barré have been associated with the swine flu vaccine and possibly with the meningitis vaccine Menactra, but it is no more common in those who get Gardasil than in those who don't.”
Alright. Let’s say you agree with the idea that the cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome are pure coincidence, despite the fact that they occur within days or weeks of vaccination.
But what about the deaths?
Infant deaths following Merck’s rotavirus are routinely disguised under the label SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). So what do we have when healthy teenagers drop dead for no reason? SAD -- Sudden Adolescent Death? Will that be the next big thing? Will there be SAD campaigns, with physicians educating the public about proper sleeping positions until you’re well into your 20’s?
Let’s get real.
I recently read a comment online from one mother who said she’d do anything in her power to make sure her children were protected, and she couldn’t understand “the narrow-minded opinions” and “fear mongering” of Gardasil nay-sayers.
“Would you rather your daughters died of cervical cancer?” she wrote.
Well, that’s just it, right there! As I will show you, the chances of your daughter dying of cervical cancer are already VERY LOW, and the possibility of Gardasil sparing them from cervical cancer is so RIDICULOUSLY LOW that no reasonable person could argue for the use of this HPV vaccine if they knew all the facts.
How Likely are You to Develop and Die From Cervical Cancer?
According to the CDC, cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cervical cancer cases and the number of deaths thereof have decreased significantly. It is believed that this decline is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical pre-cancer before it turns into cancer.
According to the U.S. Cancer Statistics: 2004 Incidence and Mortality report, 11,892 women in the U.S. were told that they had cervical cancer in 2004, and 3,850 women died from the disease. The American Cancer Society mirrors these statistics, estimating that about 3,870 women will die from cervical cancer in the U.S. in 2008.
Well. We’ve already lost 18 girls, some as young as 12, in the effort to spare them from the mere possibility of cervical cancer later in life. Others have developed debilitating and potentially life-threatening ailments within weeks of being vaccinated, and others still have had spontaneous abortions or given birth to babies with birth defects.
Also consider this: Cervical cancer usually develops in your late 20s to mid 30s. The protection period of Gardasil is estimated to be 5 years. That means, if you receive your first set of shots when you’re 10 years old, you’d need at least 2 to 4 additional booster shots to make it through your 30s. And THAT means you’ll have to expose yourself to the potential side effects of Gardasil over and over and over again.
But now to the real clincher, and I want you to read the following section as many times as you need to let this truly sink in…
U.S. statistics show there are 30 to 40 cervical cancer cases per year per one million women between the ages of 9 and 26, which is the age bracket that Gardasil targets (and was tested on).
According to Merck, Gardasil was shown to reduce pre-cancers by 12.2% to 16.5% in the general population. So, instead of ending up with 30 to 40 cases of cancer per million, per year, in that age bracket, the HPV vaccine can potentially bring it down to 26 to 35 cases of cervical cancer.
What that means is that you would have to vaccinate one million girls to prevent cervical cancer in 4 to 5 girls.
Further, about 37 percent of women who develop cervical cancer actually die from the disease, so vaccinating ONE MILLION girls would prevent 1 to 2 DEATHS per year, at the bargain-basement price of $360 million per year, plus potentially lifelong suffering for an untold number of women, which has no price tag.
Is this REASONABLE?
Understanding the HPV – Cancer Connection
There are more than 100 types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs). Of them, about 40 types of HPV affect your genitals or sex organs, and can cause genital warts, for example. 10-30 strains can lead to cervical cancer. The remainder can cause to skin infections and common warts on your hands and feet.
The CDC web site states that certain types of HPV can infect your cervix and lead to cervical cancer over many years. (This may be one of the reasons why cancer rates keep dropping, because there’s sufficient amount of time to treat any abnormalities if you’re getting regular Pap smears.)
It also says that in 90 percent of women infected, HPV clears up on its own within two years, at which point your cervical cells go back to normal. It is only when the HPV virus lingers for many years that these abnormal cells could turn into cancer.
Additionally, it’s important to know that the vast majority of abnormal Pap tests do NOT equate to cancer. Even abnormal Pap tests showing pre-cancerous cells of the CIN II grade clear by themselves without treatment 40 percent of the time.
And, current treatment of pre-cancers has limited the progression to actual cancer to only 1 percent. So, just like the polio vaccine, Merck's HPV vaccine is coming out at a time when cervical cancer is already on a steady decline, and anyone who starts talking about how Gardasil has reduced cervical cancer rates in the next few years is likely talking absolute nonsense.
Informed Consent: Understand the Numerous Dangers of the HPV Vaccine
First of all, the Gardasil vaccine contains just four types of HPV out of the more than 100 strains. So 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.
This means that 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.
Gardasil, on the other hand, can damage your immune system, and can potentially lead to death. The main causes of death include blood clots, acute respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and “sudden death” due to “unknown causes” shortly after receiving the vaccine. Again, 11 of the reported deaths occurred within 2 weeks of vaccination, and 7 within 2 days, so whatever the mechanism that induces death, it’s quick and efficient.
Other side effects include:
Says Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, “Given all the questions about Gardasil, the best public health policy would be to reevaluate 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.”
It’s also important to know that Merck has NOT evaluated Gardasil’s potential carcinogenity or genotoxicity.
There is currently no way of knowing how the HPV vaccine affects fertility, birth defects, cancer, if it can pass through breast milk, or if it can alter your genes or the genes of your future children (genotoxicity).
However, five subjects who got the vaccine around the time of conception had babies with birth defects, whereas no birth defects occurred among the subjects who received a placebo. Likewise, earlier last year when there were “only” 1,637 adverse reports, 18 of 42 women who had received the vaccine while pregnant experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormalities.
Also remember that you cannot sue Merck if your child dies after receiving the vaccine.
Drug companies have cleverly manipulated the government so that they are immune from prosecution. Instead they’ve 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.
And even though it is nearly impossible to get one of these payments, more than $1.5 billion has been paid out to affected families already. So ponder on these stats if you haven’t already taken a firm position on the vaccine issue.
Good Example of How to Fake a Safety Study
In yet another less-than-ethical twist, Merck was permitted to use an aluminum-containing placebo instead of a standard saline placebo. Since Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum, using an aluminum-containing placebo may paint an entirely inaccurate picture of its level of safety, since you’re apt to get similar, detrimental side effects in the placebo group.
In fact, about 60 percent of those who received either Gardasil or the aluminum placebo had systemic adverse events including:
Gardasil recipients had more serious adverse events such as gastroenteritis, appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm and arthritis.
You should also know that aside from being injected with four types of HPV proteins, girls and women who receive this vaccine also receive the following adjuvants:
1. Aluminum adjuvants, which have been linked to neurological damage including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease 2. Polysorbate 80, which has been linked to infertility in mice.3. Sodium borate, a main ingredient in roach killer.
How To Reduce Your Risk of Cervical Cancer to Virtually Zero
The following have been shown to be associated with increased risk of cervical cancer:
It is believed that smoking has more to do with the progression of an HPV infection to cervical cancer than any other single factor, as smokers with HPV go on to develop cervical cancer much more frequently than infected non-smokers.
Cervical cancer is also well documented to be caused by an infection acquired through sexual contact. So in addition to avoiding smoking and eating a nutritious diet, it is behaviorally avoidable.
According to a New England Journal of Medicine study, the use of condoms reduces the incidence of HPV by 70 percent, offering FAR better protection than Gardasil’s protection rate of 12.2 to 16.5 percent.
As I’ve already mentioned, in 90 percent of all cases, your immune system is strong enough to clear up an HPV infection without ANY treatment. So maintaining a strong immune system is vital to beat HPV as well as any other infection or disease.
THIS IS AN outrage I am sure this was not mentioned with the quarterly news pamphlets that the shareholders receive.HELLO, CNN??? FOX news??? Don‘t wish to anger your golf buddies, do we
LOSERS! I want to inject all of Merck-jerks with this venom. (And, double-dose it with Depo-Provera)
Don't hold your breath waiting on the mainstream media. They receive hundreds of millions in advertising from all the "Just Ask Your Doctor" and other advertisements and their medical and science writers are firmly in the hands of mainstream medicine.
Backing a dangerous medicine or other item championed by the mainstream is hardly something new for the media. Take a look at some of the past items they have championed and advertised:
"Mainstream vaccination support: another chapter in an old story"
www.tbyil.com/vaccinations.htm
The bottom line is that modern "medicine" is a massive dismal failure. They cure absolutely nothing, and actually cause more health problems than they solve--all in the name of money. $2 TRILLION a year to be exact in the USA. They are in business to make you sick and to treat the sickness. And there is so much money involved, ethics go out the window to the point that everyone says "I'll lie, and you swear to it". In 100 years, society will look back at the evil megalith the "medical" industry has become, and all of the villians will be the heads of the drug companies, the FDA, the Cancer Societies, etc. They will be looked upon like a Stalin or a Hitler.
These people are so utterly evil and sick to hurt people for mere money. It completely blows me away. If there is a hell, I can assure you they will reside there after their short (but wealthy) lives come to an end.
Amen to that! 6 years ago my doctor gave me a Depo-Provera injection without telling me what it was to stop bleeding from a fibroid. Made the bleeding worse, plus gave me about 8 other debilitating symptoms! After suffering for 3 years, I finally found natural progesterone, which helped a lot, but my body has not returned to normal! If he had given himself that shot, he wouldn't give it to anyone else. Better yet, if he had given it to his wife, he would never have used it in his practice again!!!!
I blame the public very little for this situation. Education through high school does not teach much critical thinking anyt more and most people don't go on to college. The legislators have allowed big pharma to skip over doctors and go straight to the public through advertising, particularly on television. Most doctors won't refuse a patient a requested treatment if it doesn't involve addictive drugs. The government, bought and paid for by big pharma, insists that there is no problem with the vaccine.
Only rebellious types who question authority and are bright enough to learn critical thinking on their own will know enough to ask questions and demand answers for themselves and their families. And kids brought up in these families will be more likely to learn critical thinking. We are seeing the same thing in the energy arena. There are many solutions, but it won't mean big profits for big oil, so these solutions or law to enable them are never passed in Congress.
It is a matter of taking responsibility. Critical thinking is thought in the better high Schools, but, if people are stupid enough not to go to college to learn critical thinking, or read natural health magazines, letters or e-news as Dr. Mercolas, than they have to take responsibility for getting clobbert by Big PHarma, Monsanto and the lot. I am sorry but blaming Pharma and the government will not lead to a solution - blaming never does; taking responsibility for your choices does.
I am all about taking personal responsibility, but when you have multinational corporations spending tens of BILLIONS of dollars to manipulate and deceive it is NOT a fair playing field and the typical consumer doesn't have a chance.
Regarding critical thinking -- I suspect that the medical school system is designed to weed out critical thinkers before they can get their MD (and it has been this way for hundreds of years). Most doctors I've ever met were actually fairly nice people (with VERY notable exceptions!) -- but very few of them had any concept of epistemology, either. That means they usually believe without question whatever they're told by "the system," i. e. drug salesmen, medical journals, and especially what they're taught in medical school. Carl Jung (himself a doctor) once pointed out that "doctors are trained to not think" -- that's NOT "not trained to think," that's "trained to NOT THINK." That means that the rest of us must train ourselves to think, or these Judas goats will lead us to debilitation and death via toxic drugs and extreme procedures.
And why should a doctor not act this way? He's being paid a 6-figure salary and has social prestige, and has no immediate reason whatsoever to question the system. We'd all better think for ourselves, because nobody else is going to do it for us.
Imo, critical thinking is being brainwashed out of children starting in grade school. When I was learning to read there were these q & a at the end of stories that I was supposed to answer. The last question was titled "What do you think?" and asked what we thought the characters should have done. Being a child who was taught to tell the truth I wrote my opinion and got the question marked as WRONG every time. Now that I'm a parent, I vowed to myself if something like that is done to my children the teachers, principal, school, and school board will hear my wrath for telling my kids that their opinions are worthless.
GhanimaAK - I know exactly what you mean. I was homeschooled, but my best friend went to the public school I would've gone to. (I am 30, expect maybe we are the same generation?) I would look at her school work and be shocked at the exact type of questions you mentioned. She is a bright girl, but eventually had to give in to the answers they wanted if she wanted to pass each grade. She would answer essay questions with "yes" or "no" and get a B. In fact she was on the honor roll! I however, learned independent thought and have been an outcast of society ever since...happily!
Imo, the higher the level of education my clients have the less common sense and critical thought they possess. My sickest and densest clients hold doctorates. It is not a statement to the individual, merely the system in which they enrolled.
Think for yourself...better yet...feel for yourself. Intuition is a life saver!
Colleges don't really teach "critical thinking" these days either... They only programme people with the college's political and social agendas... to the degree that a college one of my friends went to was specifically promoting a particular political party and rewarding people for finding faults with the other party... Meanwhile, both parties have their own forms of corruption.
I had CIN III (precanceous cells on cervix) in 2002. The western doctors just wanted to cut off the tissue (LEEP procedure). I went to a naturalpathic doctor, and she informed me of HPV and how studies were demonstrating a reversal of CIN II and III to normal cells after a completely vegetarian diet, increasing folate and other vitamins (as mentioned by Dr. Mercola) and doing some additional cell management (using sauves to induce sloughing of the irregular cells--applied by the naturalpath). Since I did not follow-up with the LEEP procedure, I received a call from the western office. I mentioned that I had considered other options and needed to schedule another visit to see how the regimine performed (suggested by the naturalpath to follow up with the same laboratory to see if the cells were again normal). At my appointment, the nurse asked me for more information about my "alternative regime" and when I mentioned that HPV may be a cause of cervical cancer and that tests had shown that the body, provided with folate and other nutrients, would be able to manage the irregular cells. She gave me quite an attitude--and so did my doctor. I was very insulted. They 1) didn't believe that a virus could be the reason for cervical cancer, 2) that nutrition was one of the ways to keep the bodies own immune system in check and that this would be the best way to PREVENT cervical cancer.
I heard that the HPV vaccine is manufactured by a company that was experiencing financial difficulty, and thought that this vaccine would increase their stock value. I also heard that the company was from Texas. I also know that states, one being Texas, has introduced (passed?) laws for mandatory vaccination!!!! That is one way to guarantee that your company will be profitable!!!! At over $400 a vaccine, they have succeeded in their motive--increase their stock value. At the cost of teenage girls lives????? Selfish and Criminal. Tell your daughter to take folate & eat raw veg!
Here, Here. Old wise one.
Hi bjmn, I am concerned about your CIN III. Please get a pap after your treatment!! I was vegetarian with high folate intake & had CIN II and had cryosurgery. (Uncomfortable but not too bad). They freeze your cervix and it sloughs off the surface. They repeated freezing a week or two later. 3 months later my pap was normal, though 6 months later it was abnormal! After being treated again it has never come back. I am concerned because my diet is excellent, I excercise, drink green tea, yet this virus came back. Please, please get yearly paps, and while dealing with a virus you need them atleast every 6 mos!! Take care and God bless! KC
Take care and God Bless!