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Evening News Uniquely Reports Serious Concerns about Gardasil

By Kristen Fyfe (Bio Archive)July 9, 2008 - 15:17 ET


They were a little slow on the pick up but “CBS Evening News” gets credit for finally acknowledging a report that shows serious side effects associated with the vaccine Gardasil, which protects against HPV, a sexually transmitted disease the can cause cancer.
The report, by Sharyll Attkisson, aired July 7 a full week after WorldNet Daily reported the findings. As CMI’s wonderful intern Julia Seward reported, earlier in the day both the “Early Show” and NBC’s “Today” reported on Gardasil but glossed over the serious side effects contained in the report.
Attkisson’s story did a better job at describing the serious nature of the adverse effects. While she reported on many she left a few out and managed to apply the conservative label to the group that publicized the report.
ATTKISSON: Gardasil was approved in 2006 for girls as young as age nine. The conservative funded public interest group Judicial Watch has obtained more than 8,000 adverse events reports under Freedom of Information law. The reports reveal everything from massive wart outbreaks to seizures and paralysis. Of 18 deaths, nearly a quarter cited blood clots. Jessica Vega got the shot at school when she was 13. Soon after she was paralyzed. It took a year of braces and treatment to get her on her feet. Brittney Bell was 12. She collapsed with brain inflammation and paralysis. 14-year-old Jenny developed life threatening paralysis that's resistant to treatment.
The WorldNet Daily article also included findings of grand mal seizure, spontaneous abortions, and contraction of Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Attkisson also did not report that Merck, the maker of Gardasil, had aggressively lobbied states to mandate vaccination of girls as young as nine.
An additional dose of bias was added at the end of the report. After Attkisson’s story concluded anchor Katie Couric and medical editor Dr. Jon LaPook discussed the anecdotes contained in the story. Couric called them “pretty scary.”
She asked LaPook what parents should do about their daughters. He responded, “Katie, this is a vaccine that can prevent cancer, ok, on the one hand.” Actually it is a vaccine that prevents HPV, human pappillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease, some strains of which may cause cervical cancer. The mainstream media have religiously called Gardasil a cancer vaccine.
LaPook redeemed himself though by adding a caution in his closing: On the other hand you have to give all the vaccines, all three vaccines, before the girl is sexually active. They're saying in some cases to give it as early as age nine. You have a vaccine that's only been out there for about two years so what do you do? I think you talk to your doctor and say, "In my own girl's case, is it reasonable to wait a little bit while still being responsible to see if some other side effects happen."


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-Team: Green Cards And Gardasil
Female Immigrants required to get HPV Shot before they can get a green card
ReportingMichele GillenE-mail MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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CBS4 I-Team: Vaccine Concern Part 2 (4/25/2008) It may turn out to be the latest wrinkle in controversy surrounding the Gardasil vaccine, which is touted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a key weapon to fight the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and ultimately cervical cancer. Girls aged 11 to 26 looking to get a green card are now required to have had an HPV shot. The requirement quietly went into effect in August but many pediatricians and immigration attorneys are just now learning of it. Pediatrician Dr. Eric Rydland found the news concerning when he first learned the vaccine is now mandated for those looking to live in the United States. "It made me angry," said Rydland, who believes it is too soon to know enough about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine to mandate it for anyone. "It just makes no sense to me to mandate things that will cost someone, not only money, but may cost them their health," Rydland told CBS4 Chief Investigative Reporter Michele Gillen. The three recommended doses of the vaccine can cost as much as $1000, although the new requirement for immigrants demands only proof that one dose was received. "Isn't it wonderful that people coming into this country will be protected against cervical cancer, that's a terrific public health goal," said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Schaffner sits on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which recommended the HPV vaccine for American girls as young as 11. Parents across the nation successfully fought attempts to mandate it for their school-age daughters. In an exclusive interview with Gillen, one of the leading researchers from Gardasil's clinical trials, Dr. Diane Harper, spoke out against mandating the vaccine, telling Gillen, "I see red lights flashing. This is a real danger zone." But because Gardasil, which is manufactured by Merck, was added to the CDC's list of recommended vaccines, it automatically joins the list of vaccines mandated for foreigners. It appears that every girl aged 11 to 26 immigrating to America must get it. "There's a paradox and it's a little bit of the law of unintended effects," said Dr. Schaffner But it's a worry that Attorney Marisa Casablanca, who has practiced immigration law in South Florida for 20 years, said puts her in an uncomfortable position. "As an immigration attorney, I am put in a strange situation because I have to justify something that really does not make sense," said Casablanca. She added, "So it concerns me that we are immigrating people and not giving them a choice, [asking them,] you want the green card or not, and forcing them to vaccinate these little girls." Dr. Rydland suspects the mandate that affects only immigrant girls and not U.S. citizens could trigger a negative backlash overseas. "What this is going to do is cause ill will among other countries" said Dr. Rydland. But Dr. Schaffner, who has served on a Merck advisory committee, thinks it gives those foreign girls a leg up in potentially battling cervical cancer. "I am unabashedly delighted that we are going to protect all these young girls and young women."
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Gardasil certainly made headlines in 2006 when the Food and Drug Administration approved it as a vaccine against four strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer.
HPV can be transmitted sexually, so many parents decided to give the vaccination to their teenaged daughters.
Now, Gardasil is making headlines again. This time, the drug’s manufacturer is under scrutiny as the vaccine’s recipients are complaining of ill side effects.
There have been more than 7,800 complaints about Gardasil since the Food and Drug Administration approved it two years ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Complaints have included nausea, blood clots, genital warts, paralysis and even death.
The CDC said the deaths are not linked to Gardasil.
Merck is standing by its product, insisting it is safe.
“I think of all the vaccines out there, this has been thoroughly tested prior to release,” said Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FOXNews.com. “This is a vaccine that helps protect women from a very deadly disease. Therefore the benefits fully outweigh any side effect that has been found so far.
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"However, I do believe that with any medication, constant surveillance of complications need to be monitored aggressively and in extreme cases, like this one, thorough investigations are necessary.”
The family of one teenager – who is only going by the name of Jenny – told CBS News Monday that their daughter was healthy until 15 months ago when she received the third installment of the vaccine.
Jenny’s parents said it was soon after that final shot that Jenny began to experience signs of degenerative muscle disease, and she is now almost completely paralyzed.
“There may be a link. But, there is no medical consensus on whether this hypothesis is stronger than other possible explanations,” said the parents of Jenny, 13, who lives in Northern California.
“Based on the facts we’ve received, the information does not suggest that this event was casually associated with vaccination.”
Since the drug was approved, eight million females have received the vaccination.
Alvarez also noted that vaccines respond differently to the each individual’s