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Gardasil is Dangerous As Well As Unproven

Merck's Gardasil vaccine is supposed to prevent young women from getting cervical cancer. Now the FDA has approved a claim for two less common cancers as well. But whether it will actually prevent any kind of cancer is actually unknown.

Meanwhile, as of July the federal government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System has received over 9,700 reports of problems since the vaccine's introduction in 2006. These include paralysis, seizures, and miscarriage. Twenty deaths have been reported, although the government has not acknowledged a link yet.

Vaccines were originally developed to protect the public from extremely contagious diseases spread primarily by air. Now dangerous and unproven vaccines are being mandated in the hope they will guard against diseases that require very intimate contact to transmit.

Where will it end?

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Health Freedom Foundation

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Merck has launched a very powerful ad campaign urging girls to become “one less” victim to cervical cancer. Well, this fear tactic has scared about 18 million U.S. women into getting the Gardasil vaccine since it was approved in 2006.

Yet, despite its annual sales of $1 billion, Gardasil has not become the blockbuster drug that Merck hoped it would be. Fortunately, people are wising up; aside from the moral issue of whether or not the vaccine encourages promiscuity, the long-term effects of the drug are completely unknown, and the immediate side effects are turning out to be quite serious, even deadly.

The federal government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System has received over 9,700 reports of problems since the vaccine's introduction in 2006. These problems just keep growing and include paralysis, seizures and miscarriage, along with 20 deaths that may be linked to the vaccine!

This didn’t stop Merck from pushing for an expansion of uses for Gardasil, which the FDA just approved. Now Gardasil can also be promoted to prevent two rare vaginal and vulvar cancers. At least the FDA made the right choice and decided NOT to approve Gardasil for the prevention of cervical cancer in women aged 27 to 45 (currently it’s approved for girls 9 through 26).

If more women knew the reality about the human papillomavirus (HPV), the one that can sometimes lead to cervical cancer, I doubt any of them would voluntarily receive this vaccine. (Maybe that’s why Merck was pushing so hard to make it mandatory for schoolgirls.)

So before you even think about getting this potentially dangerous vaccination, make sure you know what you’re risking your health for.

The Facts About HPV

There are more than 100 types of human papillomaviruses. Of them, only 10-30 can cause cervical cancer. The rest can lead to skin infections that cause genital warts or common warts on your hands and feet.

Although these are very common viruses, and an estimated 25 million Americans have HPV infections, there’s actually little cause for alarm because, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states, “In 90 percent of cases, your body’s immune system clears the HPV infection naturally within two years.”

This is true whether the infection is the type that can cause warts or cancer.

Still, the marketers of Gardasil would have you believe that getting the vaccine will protect girls from the slight risk of cervical cancer that does exist -- but this is not the case.

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.

Why Risk Your Life to Prevent an Avoidable Disease?

Deadly blood clots, acute respiratory failure, cardiac arrest and “sudden death due to unknown causes” have all occurred in girls shortly after they’ve received the Gardasil vaccine. These are obviously atrocious risks to perhaps prevent cervical cancer one day down the road.

Well, according to the CDC more than 6 million women contract HPV annually, yet less than 3,900 women will die from cervical cancer out of those 6 million.

This is because, as I said earlier, your immune system can clear up HPV 90 percent of the time. Meanwhile, cervical cancer is caused by an infection spread through sexual contact, so it is behaviorally avoidable. In fact, using condoms can reduce the risk of HPV by 70 percent, which is more than Gardasil can claim to do.

The bottom line is that Gardasil is largely ineffective, potentially very dangerous and a major waste of money. In order to keep your daughter healthy, why not take these simple steps that can prevent HPV and cervical cancer far better than a vaccine ever could:

• Talk to your kids about HPV. This infection is sexually transmitted, so it is 100 percent preventable through lifestyle choices.

• Realize the power of your emotions. An emerging school of thought called German New Medicine (GNM) shows how specific stressful events or “conflict shocks” trigger cancer and other diseases in your body.

Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, who developed GNM, believes that cancer is a phase that occurs while your body heals itself from this emotional trauma, and that the key to overcoming the disease lies in resolving your emotional conflicts.

• Keep your immune system strong. A healthy immune system is better able to handle a heavier emotional and physical stress load. The ideal healthy habits to keep your body and mind strong are detailed in these 12 changes that will cut your cancer risk in half.

Related Links:

Gardasil -- New Video Reveals Hidden Dangers

Is the Rise in Male Oral Cancer Related to HPV?

Drug Company Marketing Leads to HPV Vaccine Rise

Community Comments (31)

Posted On Sep 21, 2008

When will it end?
I am happy there are other people besides me who see a bigger picture as to what is going on in our society. Between the food industry, big pharma and our government I have recently felt or questioned, is there a conspiracy to make us, and our children sick? I too, worry about what are these children going to do as adults. A sick, disabled nation cannot fight, nor even run. Where would this country be if in 1775, the colonists were too sickly to fight for independence? How do we ban together as a nation to make these changes? I do not think we can depend upon our government.

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Posted On Sep 21, 2008

"give me liberty, or give me death"...the latter comes in any event, of course, to the wild (free) animal & the domesticated animal both...but how it comes is the difference....

cartels seek, have largely succeeded, in taming the wild, free market (people), domesticating all to their purposes...domesticated captives are to markets what zoo inhabitants are to nature....

but like the song says, "Well I know it wasn't you who held me down
Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key"

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/eagles/already+gone_20044447.html

And you always thought that song was about a woman, lol...well, maybe it was "American Woman" (the guess who, nice cover by lenny kravitz) - & her sisters all over the globe....

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Posted On Sep 21, 2008

p.s.

"but how it comes is the difference...."

...and what your life will have mean't, when it does come....

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Posted On Oct 07, 2008

From what I've read, heard, seen the answer is yes. "Conspiracy Theory" here but supposedly the Government, food industry and medical industry are all in it together. Sadly things in our country are going downhill fast. More people than you can imagine know what's going on. But when the Government is doing things behind our backs; passing laws, bills etc and we find out about it *after* the fact it makes it difficult to have a voice.

Eat right and stay healthy because we're all going to need to be as strong as we possibly can be.

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Posted On Oct 08, 2008

With the drug companies proving over and over again that they absolutely can't be trusted, and the FDA absolutely unwilling to protect anyone other than their clients, it's long past time to make the decision never to take any FDA-approved drug...unless you're getting a tooth drilled or its equivalent. ;-)

Thank God with the internet, they are losing their hold on us. Dr. Mercola's site is a prime example.

Here's an example of a blog where cancer victims are experiencing positive results:

1brightwinger.blogspot.com/.../she-said-my-stabbing-knife-piercing.html

The FDA and the drug companies can't stop the free flow of information, so over time they are DOOMED! {Me doing a victory dancing!!!}

The best to you.

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Together we can cure cancer - one person at a time!

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Posted On Sep 18, 2008

..." Where will it end?"...
When:
1./ people wise-up
2./ the banking system collapses
3./ 10-15 years time when only the side effects remain and the villains have skipped with a few hundred million dollars.

You decide

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Posted On Sep 18, 2008

DITTO. I have to expand a little though....we will be left with just the side effects that those who are not severely injured can continue to make millions off of. So will it ever really end? Only if the people revolt - before it's too late.

We have 1 in 150 (their #'s, what I understand it's more like 1 in 66) with Autsim....and that's not including all the other PDD-NOS or other neurological disorders that keep children from functioning well. What will happen when these children are adults? That really concerns me.... Yet even worse....the fact that the big companies (all of them! Oil, Pharma, Agriculture, etc.) feel our children are dispensible. I am not a conspiracy theorist....but I certainly see how they feel it's all a conspiracy to reduce population!

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Posted On Sep 18, 2008

What do we do??? We have two LOSERS (McCain and Obama BinLaden) running for the top spot????

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Posted On Sep 19, 2008

Katie, I have Asperger's Syndrome... I'm an adult... I'm very well-travelled, speak three languages, have a full-time job, good group of friends, loving partner, good qualifications...

It's not all misery and sorrow, I promise!!

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Posted On Sep 19, 2008

It's only a matter of time. The real question is, what will it take? What does it take until the day people wise-up?

In 10-15 years time, they'll have made more poisons. And Gardasil will just be forgotten with the rest with little chance of recourse.

It's an odd thing the FDA (or should I say the Fradulent Deception Agency?) would suddenly assert two claims by expanding the label and saying that it protects against vulvar cancer as well, just recently after doubts were raised on Gardasil. They don't know when to stop, they'll do anything.

katieannpc, if the government had any righteousness, they would've declared a state of emergency of what's happening to the kids. They would've never let it happen to begin with. And pursue the perpetuators to the far ends of the earth and make them face justice.

It's not just children, the big companies out there have already merged with the government and are waging a multisided secret war to overthrow the people. America's forefathers warned of this, the greatest threats to our liberties, even though they didn't have or knew of what it was back then. Mussolini the fascist dictator said it himself, that fascism is a merge of government and corporate power.

This is happening, all this, because some people refuse to accept the reality of the situation.

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Posted On Sep 24, 2008

this just came across...

I suppose we should be glad that the FDA recognized that it needed to change the way its advisory committees are set up at all. But the actual amendments they implemented seem more like a halfhearted attempt to appease the increasingly angry and suspicious public than they are about real change.

Last month, the agency announced that they would be imposing stricter limits on financial ties that members of its advisory committees may have with the companies involved in the decisions being made at the committee meetings. Apparently, they think capping the financial interest at $50,000 meets that "strict" criteria. According to the article I read, "If an advisor's personal financial interest is greater than $50,000, he or she won't be allowed to participate in the meeting. If the financial interest is less than $50,000, the FDA may grant a waiver…"

I don't know about you, but if I had $50,000 at stake in something, my judgment might be a bit clouded. But, then again, for a profit-mongering organization like the FDA, 50 grand is little more than pocket change, so it makes sense that they wouldn't see that level of potential profit as a conflict of interest.

Or maybe -- and this is the thought that still sends shivers down my spine -- they just don't care.

Yours in good health,

Amanda Ross
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Posted On Oct 07, 2008

Whatever happened to the concept of "conflict of interest"? It was never a matter of degree. Either it was there, or it wasn't.

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Posted On Oct 08, 2008

Thanks, stoic.

Kate

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Posted On Sep 25, 2008

It absolutely makes me ill to see those Gardasil commercials on TV with the young girls and their mothers talking about how they are 'protecting' themselves by being vaccinated. This is misleading for other young girls and a way of scaring them into thinking they need the vaccine or they may die from cervical cancer. It is a very sad thing that the government has not yet acknowledged the link and I'm afraid it will be like just about everything else, they never will.

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Posted On Oct 07, 2008

Parents "feel" they are doing the right thing for their children because this generation of parents are the leaders in mulitple partners, no morals, bed hopping, free sex, friends with benefits, etc.

No one wants to address the moral issues here because we as a generation are guilty of "teaching" our children the "new rules for sex". Don't question, just be "safe".

Not to be on the soapbox but we need to take a step back and rethink what we are teaching our children through our actions, our tv shows, movies etc. We have become a morally bankrupt nation. It is sad.

Although I agree that the HPV/cancer tie in isn't as bad as the ol' Gardasil folks want us to believe, we still should use this as a wake up call!

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