Watchdog Group Says Government Denies Vaccine Risks
In an effort to protect young women from HPV (human papalloma virus) the vaccine Gardisil was created to guard against the virus linked to cervical cancer in women. However, the National Vaccine Information Center is concerned of the side effects experienced by the young women who elect to be vaccinated against HPV. In 2006, the NVIC questioned the efficacy of Merck’s pre-license Gardisil vaccine safety data for girls under age 16. In 2007 they made three reports analyzing serious adverse events experienced and reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). In 2008 about 20 percent of all vaccine adverse event reports to VAERS were related to Gardisil. Such adverse events include some experiencing paralysis and 27 deaths that have been reported as a result of the vaccine. However, the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are alleging that the 9,000 HPV vaccine adverse events are not related to the Gardisil vaccine based on an internal analysis. Now the VAERS are calling on the CDC and the FDA to publicly release the argumentative data showing Gardisil is safe with no serious side effects. “Transparency in government is essential to trust in government and replication is the hallmark of good science,” said NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher. “Parents of young girls and women cut down in their prime - some of them paralyzed or dead within hours or days of getting Gardasil vaccine - deserve better answers than a whitewashing of this vaccine's very serious side effects. Until there is an independent confirmation of these unverified findings by individuals and companies without financial ties to the government or industry, it is not credible.” NVIC was founded in 1982 and worked with Congress on the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The non-profit watchdog group advocates for safer vaccine policies and the legal right for Americans to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. http://www.nvic.org
