So vaccinations against cervical cancer start in April in Australia. From Merck, the people who brought you the wonder drug Vioxx,we now have Gardasil, an under-tested aluminium-containing “100% effective (where have we heard that before) “life-saver”. Well before you rush your daughter off to be vaccinated you may want to read these articles. Here’s an excerpt from one: “Young girls are experiencing severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision and some girls have lost consciousness during what appear to be seizures,” said Vicky Debold, health policy analyst for the National Vaccine Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog organization that was created in the early 1980s to prevent vaccine injuries. Full article here.
Vaccinations are not mandatory in Australia but consider the case of Texas:
“Gardasil may well be the huge medical breakthrough it appears to be,” but “a rush to make it mandatory, less than eight months after FDA approval, could have detrimental consequences,” a USA Today editorial says. The “[s]cientific uncertainty” of Gardasil, the lack of public education about the vaccine and HPV being a sexually transmitted infection can “spark an anti-vaccine backlash that would result in fewer girls getting immunized against cervical cancer and other diseases,” according to USA Today. “With more public education and real-life experience, these qualms may soon be overcome, and the vaccine may well deserve to be included on lists of required immunizations,” the editorial says, adding, “For now, however, making [the vaccine] mandatory is premature.” Sometimes, “promotion of a medical advance can move too fast for its own good,” the editorial says, adding that the HPV vaccine “ought to be available at an affordable price to everyone who wants it after consulting with a doctor” (USA Today, 2/9). Full article here.
Think before you leap.
