The campaign is aimed at two senior scientists in the U.S. government – Dr. Mark Schiffman, who SaneVax identifies as a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the official medical monitor of the HPV vaccine clinical trial; and Dr. Lauri Markowitz, a senior scientific officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who is it says is responsible for instituting a post-licensure marketing program for HPV vaccines. Supporters of stronger regulations also are sending letters to their Congressional representatives.

According to the release, the letters demand the government “comply with the law and immediately implement a reliable post-licensure monitoring program to validate the benefits of the HPV vaccine, being marketed as a cancer vaccine, indeed outweigh its risks to consumers.”

Since Gardasil was approved for use in girls beginning as early as age 9, in 2006, there have been numerous reports of serious adverse events linked to the drug. Side effects reported following the vaccination include blood clots, immune deficiency disorders like Lupus, brain inflammation, seizures and even death. Because most side effects are reported through the voluntary Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), some advocates believe the incidence of serious side effects is higher than officially reported, as some victims would not think to link the drug to later health problems, and so these problems go unreported.

Manufacturer Merck maintains the drug is safe, and says that there is no conclusive link between the drug and later adverse health events. In fact, the drug recently received expanded approval by the FDA for use in boys and young men, for the prevention of HPV, and the reduction of incidence of penile, anal and oral cancers.

For more information, and sample letters, visit the website “Gardasil and Unexplained Deaths.” This site is operated by Emily Tarsel, whose daughter, Chris, who died days after receiving the Gardasil vaccine.

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Gardasil is a vaccine against four types of the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted virus linked to the development of cervical cancer. Recent studies are now saying that HPV also may be responsible for the development of throat cancers, which may be transmitted by oral sex, as well as penile and anal cancers.

However, the vaccine also is linked to thousands of reports of serious adverse side effects, including paralysis, blood clots, autoimmune deficiencies, and even death.

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Austin says drug-maker Merck could not possibly be able to predict the long-term effects on the pre-pubescent girls that are its primary focus, because it was not tested on a large enough sample of children in that age group. The longest test trial, she says, was less than four years. This, despite the fact that the vaccine maker states the drug is only effective for a maximum of five years.

HPV, the virus linked to cervical cancer, is a sexually transmitted virus. This means that girls who receive the vaccine at age 11, or even younger, will most likely not even be sexually active during the vaccine’s peak effectiveness, based on Merck’s own information.

She writes, “This means my daughter will need at least four booster shots after the age of 11. What the drug makers do not mention is that this is the most expensive vaccine ever made, at $360 per three-shot series. They do not tell me about the vaccine’s known carcinogenic and estrogenic compounds that will be injected into the body of my pre-pubescent little girl, or the fact that the shot has not been tested to find out if it can potentially cause more cases of cancer than it is supposed to prevent.”

Additionally, Austin feels the drug maker is downplaying the risk of serious side effects. Statistics being reported to the Vaccine Adverse Effect Response System include children collapsing after receiving the shot, and reports of facial paralysis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and even death among girls who have received the shot.

While the drug maker argues there is not sufficient evidence to link these events to the Gardasil vaccine, Austin asks how many parents really want to take that chance with their child’s health.

She wonders, “Can I refuse this dangerous, experimental treatment if I do not want to have my child used in this way, so the pharmaceutical company (which will profit approximately 2 billion dollars a year on this vaccine) can find out exactly what it will do to little girls not even at puberty yet?”

Austin suggests a better solution: “Why not use the billions of dollars that will be going to Merck, and instead fund a campaign to make HPV screening and Pap smears (far cheaper and more effective tools for fighting cervical cancer) free and accessible to everyone?”

Since the time this article was published, the FDA also approved Gardasil for use in boys and young men, as well as girls.  HPV screening would also be effective in preventing the spread of this virus among boys.

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The directive went into effect in July of last year, mandating Gardasil shots for immigrant females despite mounting evidence that the shots could cause serious injury and death. The shots were also required of females who posed no risk of contracting or spreading HPV to the wider population.

In determining which vaccines immigrants are required to have, the CDC’s rule of thumb is that the vaccine must target viruses that could potentially cause an outbreak and viruses that either have been eliminated from the United States or are in the process of elimination. HPV does not fit any of the criteria.

Immigrants are still required to undergo a series of 15 other vaccinations before gaining U.S. resident status and citizenship. Neither federal health officials nor the pharmaceutical companies have tested the safety of vaccinations in combination. No research has been conducted on the interaction of Gardasil vaccines with other vaccines and what adverse effects such cocktails could have on the recipient.

Soon after the CDC added Gardasil to the list of required vaccines for immigrants, more than 100 advocacy groups representing women, immigrants, and consumer health challenged the requirement, protesting that it was unfair to require HPV vaccines for immigrants but not all U.S. citizens.

Merck had been lobbying hard to make the vaccines mandatory for all school-age American girls, but their plans were strongly opposed by an unlikely band of abstinence-only conservatives, Big Pharma critics, individual parents and parent groups, a growing anti-vaccine movement, and a number of consumer advocacy and women’s rights groups.

The 3-shot series costs between $300 and $1,000, putting a financial strain on immigrants already burdened by thousands of dollars in application fees and mandatory medical exams. Mandatory Gardasil vaccinations would have provided Merck with a revenue stream of at least $4 billion annually.

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Although the committee did not press for the use of Gardasil in men, it did advise U.S. doctors to use the vaccine at their discretion. It also recommended that the shot be included in the federally funded Vaccines for Children program for boys 9 to 18 years old.

The FDA approved Gardasil on October 16 for use in preventing genital warts in males age 9 to 26. Men may carry HPV and never know about it unless it develops into warts, and even then there are no long-term effects. On the other hand, women infected with genital warts are at risk of developing cervical cancers.

Gardasil only protects against 4 strains of HPV that cause cancer and 2 strains that cause warts.

Vaccinating boys and men with Gardasil would primarily be done to reduce the number of females exposed to HPV. However, the serious risks that the Gardasil shots carry, combined with their steep cost – about $500 for a complete regimen – leave many health professionals and patients questioning whether the vaccines are worth it.

Since 2006, when the FDA approved Gardasil for use in females, more than 15,000 girls have reported adverse side effects to the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Reactions that have been officially reported include brain inflammation, seizures, blood clots, paralysis, lupus, Guilliane Barre Syndrome, and several others. 44 deaths attributed to the vaccine have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Merck, which stands to earn billions from the shots, maintains that the vaccine is safe and that the benefits outweigh the risks. But for thousands of girls and women injured by Gardasil, the vaccines were anything but harmless – a fact made more frustratingly tragic by the lead developer’s own admission that Gardasil is ineffective and unnecessary.

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