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Some information about HPV, Gardasil and other Forced Vaccinations:
Most young women are not being told by their doctors that they are at a very high risk of cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer as a result of taking birth-control pills. A number of states are forcing very young girls to get the anti-HPV vaccine (Gardasil) with the unsupported idea of preventing cervical cancer, yet more cancers could be prevented, even those related to HPV, by improving diets and supplementing with folate, vitamin B-6 and vitamin B-12.
HPV Vaccine: More Dangerous Than Reported
The government collects reported complications on all vaccines, and these are stored deep in the bowels of the FDA. Recently, the Washington-based public interest group Judicial Watch attempted to examine the adverse effects of the new HPV vaccine Gardasil. But, the FDA refused to release the data — until they were forced to by a Freedom of Information lawsuit. You may recall that the Merck pharmaceutical company, maker of Gardasil, went from state to state passing out bundles of money to legislators and governors in an attempt to have mandatory vaccine legislation passed. They insisted that girls as young as age 9 receive the vaccine by order of the state. Because of the release of this hidden data, we now know that serious complications have occurred with this vaccine with only a limited use of the vaccine nationwide. Some 1,600 young girls have had complications, including death. Almost 25 percent of the complications were serious. Several cases of sudden death occurring within eight hours of taking the vaccine were reported. Death was secondary to coronary artery thrombosis (heart attack), pulmonary embolism (clots in the lung vessels) and enlargement of the heart. Two of the deaths occurred in girls aged 12 and 19. In an attempt to downplay the complications, the FDA listed instances of children being found unresponsive after the vaccine as “minor complications.”
In a previous issue of the newsletter, I warned pregnant women about the dangers of being vaccinated during pregnancy. Incredibly, 42 pregnant women were vaccinated with this vaccine and 18 experienced side effects, which included spontaneous abortions and malformed babies.
Seizures, Bell’s palsy and Guillain-Barre syndrome (paralysis) were also reported. If states had passed mandatory vaccination with Gardasil the number of dead, paralyzed, and seriously impaired young girls would have been astronomical.
I shudder to think of the number of pregnant women who would have lost their babies or had malformed babies. What makes all this so shocking is that Gardasil has not been shown to actually prevent cervical cancer, and it has been shown to become ineffective after three-and-a-half years. Most HPV-related cervical cancer occurs after age 30. It might surprise you to know that there are 20 million people infected with HPV, yet there are only 10,000 cases of cervical cancer in the United States and 3,000 deaths per year. That would be an incidence of HPV related cancer of 0.001 percent, if we assume half of all cases were females. (Cancers caused by the HPV virus can also occur in men. HPV cancers can develop in several places including the penis, anus, mouth, and throat.)
Likewise, studies have shown that most cervical cancer occurs in women who do not get regular Pap smears, with the highest incidence in those who have multiple sexual partners, poor personal hygiene, and poor nutrition. Not only should those responsible for these tragedies be sued, they should be serving prison sentences.
Dr. Russell Blaylock
Don't let this governor steal your medical freedom...
I am mad as Hell. And you should be too. The drug company Merck has bought control of the Texas governor's mansion. And your state could be next. Last week, the governor of Texas signed an executive order mandating the vaccination of all preteen girls with Merck's new vaccine for cervical cancer.
Gardasil is a vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer. This virus is spread only through sexual contact. Not through coughing, sneezing, or stepping on a nail. And regular PAP smear tests can detect it before it becomes cancer (and there's an easy treatment for a positive PAP test, which I'll explain in a moment). So at best, the vaccine isn't necessary.
At it's worst, though, the vaccine is very dangerous. If you get pregnant within one month after vaccination, there's a higher risk of birth defects. And that's just the beginning. This vaccine, like most vaccines, has aluminum in it. I've shown you in the past how aluminum causes many health problems, including Alzheimer's disease and heart problems.
The study conducted on Gardasil proved this point very clearly. The researchers split 21,000 subjects into two different groups. One received the vaccine. The other received a placebo. Surprisingly, both groups had a few participants who suffered from arthritis after the shots. And the overwhelming majority of both groups had adverse effects, such as local reactions (rashes, etc.).
Sounds like it couldn't be the vaccine, could it, since the placebo shot recipients had similar problems? Ah, the devil's in the details. Turns out both the vaccine and the placebo had one thing in common - they both contained aluminum! And both groups discovered that aluminum is indeed a poison.
While I hate vaccines for this very reason, I hate the drug company's manipulation of the government even worse. It's one thing to offer these poisons on the open market, where you have the freedom to decide if you want to take it or not. It's another thing completely to mandate these poisons.
This would be bad enough if the drug were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be good for you. But I don't know of any such drug. And Gardasil is far from proven. The vaccine has no known period of protection (requiring boosters every few years - and more aluminum). Furthermore, the studied population was only followed for 18 months. There's no data on long-term repercussions. Even the FDA admits, "Gardasil has not been evaluated for the potential to cause carcinogenicity or genotoxicity." Why? The researchers didn't look for it, and the FDA didn't require it for initial approval.
How was Merck able to pull this off in Texas? First, the Texas governor received $6,000 from Merck's political action committee during his re-election campaign. One of Merck's three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, the governor's former chief of staff. His current chief of staff's mother-in-law is state Rep. Dianne White Delisi. She is a state director for an organization called Women in Government. Merck provides funding for this organization, which is busy working on compulsory Gardasil vaccination for school entry. Are you connecting the dots?
I am astounded that government and the public would buy into another product with limited testing (and huge known aluminum risks) from Merck - a company that wantonly kept a killer drug (Vioxx) on the market. Do you really trust this company to look after your well being? I sure don't. This whole thing stinks to me. I hope it's putrid to you. The billions this political coupe will reap Merck will help the company offset the huge financial losses coming from the Vioxx lawsuits.
Can you do anything about it? First, if you have children or grandchildren in the target population, take all measures to protect them. Sign a religious waiver for all school required vaccines. If you are in Texas, storm Governor Perry's office with mail about this brazen surrender to Big Pharma. Demand your legislators to hold him accountable. Bring it up at school PTA meetings.
If you don't live in Texas, do the same in your state. Merck wields enormous power nationwide and your state could be next. The Merck Gardasil steamroller is moving fast and may already be unstoppable. A similar bill is working its way through the Virginia congress. And 18 other states are already considering such a bill.
Consider boycotting anything made by Merck. In future elections demand an accounting of all campaign contributions from Big Pharma for a candidate to receive your vote. Express your outrage in letters to the editor.
And what about cervical cancer? Women not sexually active or who are monogamous have a very low risk of cervical cancer (unless their partner is promiscuous). PAP smears are one of the few screening tests that pass muster with me. They are a must for women with multiple exposures. If your sexual values (morals) are high, and you practice safe sex, and you get yearly PAPs, the benefit, if any, from this vaccine is greatly diminished or non existent.
If you have a positive PAP screen, cheap vitamin A is one of the best treatments for any type of skin or papilloma virus. I've seen many abnormal (but non-cancerous) PAPs reverse with 100,000 units daily along with 15 mg of folic acid.
Yours for better health and medical freedom,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
The most controversial vaccine on the market might be going down in flames.
So -- what's that big, hollow, echoy sound you hear? That's the mainstream media coverage (or rather complete NON-coverage) of the danger linked to Gardasil -- Merck's vaccine designed to protect women from human papillomavirus virus (HPV), which is one of the primary causes of cervical cancer.
The media helped promote Gardasil. Where are they now when it's obvious that young women are being put in harm's way?
If you browse through a few random articles about Merck's Gardasil vaccine you'll find an abundance of favorable comments from doctors, experts, scientists, researchers, elected officials, and parents voicing their unified conviction that the vaccine is safe, effective, and even necessary.
They don't seem to understand that the moment a new vaccine is released to the public, the recipients become guinea pigs in an informal "study" that eventually reveals the true nature of the vaccine.
In the e-Alert "Every Breath You Take" (3/5/07), I told you how Merck representatives have been encouraging state legislatures across the country to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for young schoolgirls. That's right: mandatory.
This initiative largely failed, and I expect many state representatives are happy they didn't back the plan because three deaths have now been linked to Gardasil.
According to the British Medical Journal, the deaths were reported to the FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), along with more than 1,600 other adverse reaction reports over the past year. Gardasil was granted FDA approval in June 2006.
Judicial Watch (the investigative public interest group that obtained the FDA data under the Freedom of Information Act) noted in a press release that 77 percent of the adverse reactions were considered "typical" vaccination side effects, while the remaining 23 percent included more serious side effects, such as seizures and Bell's Palsy. And death.
One of the patients who died suffered a blood clot three hours after receiving the vaccine. Two other patients (aged 12 and 19) died from "heart problems and/or blood clotting."
This is unbelievably tragic -- especially considering that the vaccine in no way guarantees immunity from cervical cancer. Imagine the mother who hears the wonderful reports about Gardasil, believes all the promises, and decides to have her daughter immunized, only to watch helplessly as her child succumbs to a fatal adverse reaction.
But there are plenty of heartbreaking gray areas between no reaction and death. Here are a few details from just three of the VAERS reports compiled by the FDA:
* 14-year-old girl -- Hospitalized: Dehydration, Fall, Headache, Hyperventilation, Injection site pain, Muscle spasms, Speech disorder, Syncope (loss of consciousness due to reduced blood flow to brain), Vision blurred, Vomiting
* 17-year-old girl -- Hospitalized, Life Threatening: Guillain-Barre Syndrome (central nervous system disorder), Hypoaesthesia (impaired tactile sensibility), Paraesthesia (burning skin sensations), Proteinuria (excessive protein in urine -- kidney disorder symptom), Red blood cell sedimentation rate increased
* 16-year-old girl -- Hospitalized, Life Threatening: Guillain-Barre Syndrome Hypoaesthesia, Muscular weakness, Paraesthesia, Proteinuria, Red blood cell sedimentation rate increased
Most of the VAERS reports are listed as "not serious." Here's one of them: A 20-year-old patient experienced nausea, vomiting, and loss of consciousness. Compared to the others, I suppose that's "not serious," but I would guess it was quite serious to the patient and her parents.
Here's the worst part: Judicial Watch released all of this information three months ago. Three months! After all the reassuring reports about this "necessary" vaccine, why is the mainstream media silent about the dire risks?
Once again, it's left to those of us who aren't part of the corporate machine to spread the word. Please send this to every young woman and every parent of a young girl you know. Because even the "not serious" side effects of this vaccine aren't worth the (very, very limited) benefits.
Sources:
"Judicial Watch Uncovers Three Deaths Relating to HPV Vaccine" Judicial Watch press release, 5/23/07, judicialwatch.org
Jenny Thompson, Health Sciences International (http://www.hsibaltimore.com)
Hundreds made sick by Gardasil vaccine By KATE SIKORA and KELVIN BISSETT
MORE than 17 girls a week have been experiencing adverse reactions such as seizures and numbness after taking cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil since it became widely distributed in April.
But the Department of Health and Ageing, while revealing the number of reactions, is refusing to release the details of them - despite growing controversy overseas, including links to at least seven deaths.
There have been previous reports in Australia of young girls fainting, experiencing seizures, dizzy spells and paralysis, including 20 students at a Melbourne private school who reported being sick after having an injection in late May.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that as of November 30 there have been 496 adverse reaction reports filed to the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA).
Of those, 468 of the reported cases had the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine as the sole suspected cause.
In the US there have been reports of up to 1700 women suffering adverse reactions after being vaccinated.
Have you had an adverse reaction? Share your experience using the comment box below. (I copied this from an email from someone else, and unfortunately the comment box was missing.
Manufacturer CSL has dismissed allegations of associated deaths in the US, claiming the women died of unrelated thrombosis or heart attack.
When Gardasil was released earlier this year its inventor, former Australian of the Year Ian Frazer, urged parents to vaccinate their daughters.
"It would be a pity if that opportunity was lost because of fainting," Professor Frazer said.
The national HPV program vaccinates 12 and 13 year olds in the first year of secondary school, along with a catch-up program for women up to 26.
Teenager Stephanie Kemp, 17, was vaccinated with Gardasil before it was distributed free.
"I thought it was important for her to have it," said her mother Sue. "To have these things available I think is fantastic . . . the pluses outweigh the minuses," she said.
Dr Rohan Hammett, TGA acting national manager said the safety of Gardasil was being monitored by bodies in Australia and overseas with more than 10 million doses distributed worldwide to date. He added the rate of adverse reactions was consistent with those expected with any vaccine.
CSL spokeswoman Rachel David said the majority of side effects were linked to people with severe allergies.
Mercury from dental amalgam fillings, vaccines containing mercury, and air pollution can also promote the growth of cancers and interfere with immunity.
I might add that the flu vaccine increases brain inflammation for a prolonged period. One study has shown that those who take the flu vaccine yearly for five years have a 1,000 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Studies Point to Vaccination Dangers for Pregnant Women
New guidelines by the CDC and public health authorities recommend that all pregnant women receive the flu vaccine. At present I am reviewing a large number of studies investigating the effects of stimulating the immune system during pregnancy. Based on these studies and a number of other studies in pregnant women, I believe there is compelling evidence that stimulating their immune system by vaccination endangers their children.
Several studies have linked viral infections during pregnancy with schizophrenia, mental retardation, and psychoses that develop in the offspring later in life. At first it was assumed this was because the virus was passed from the mother and infected the baby’s brain. Yet, it was shown that the virus doesn’t pass through the placenta to the baby. Newer studies used no viruses. Instead, they used only immune cytokine stimulation (resembling vaccinations) instead of an actual virus and found that the high levels of inflammatory cytokines themselves caused the problem. (Buka S, et al. Brain Behavior Immunology 2001; 15: 411- 420). These studies show that the timing of the vaccination determined the mental health of the babies, once they became adults.
Further, these studies have shown that stimulating the immune system during midpregnancy was more likely to cause autism. Stimulation in later-term was more likely to cause schizophrenia.
By stimulating the mother’s immune system during pregnancy, microglial immune cells in the baby’s brain become overactive and release harmful levels of glutamate — a neurotoxin. This toxin can cause the baby’s brain to be miswired, especially the parts of the brain concerned with behavior, social interaction, and language.
Unfortunately, most practicing physicians (pediatricians and family practice doctors) are unaware of this research and no one is warning pregnant women of these very real dangers. Even more frightening is that once these babies are born they are assaulted with additional vaccines, which worsen the damage. This explains the astronomical rise in autism as well as other neurodevelopmental behavioral disorders.
Not all behavioral disorders appear in infants and toddlers. Many of these mothers will not see the harm done to their babies until their children are either teenagers or adults.
More Reasons to Avoid Excitotoxin Food Additives
As many of you know, in 1995 I wrote a book on the subject of excitotoxin food additives (“Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills”) such as MSG and aspartame. Since I wrote that book, an explosion of scientific studies has confirmed the validity of my warning. In fact, new studies have shown that there are glutamate receptors scattered throughout the body, in the pancreas, bones, ovaries, testes, lungs, immune cells, heart, intestines, stomach, retinas of the eyes, and even the skin.
Likewise, scientists have discovered that these receptors, when over-stimulated by these excitotoxins, are responsible for a number of diseases, such as gross obesity, muscle weakness (chronic fatigue syndrome), asthma, sudden cardiac death, glaucoma, and high cholesterol levels (especially VLDL and LDL cholesterol). In fact, they found that even a single dose of MSG causes free radicals to accumulate in the arteries for years — a major cause of atherosclerosis. It has also been shown that dietary glutamate and other excitotoxins can stimulate a number of cancers to grow faster, including breast, lung, prostate, ovarian, and brain cancers. It turns the cancers into very aggressive, invasive, and deadly malignancies. Few doctors, even oncologists, know this.
As frightening as all this is, there is an even bigger disaster looming over our society. A significant number of studies have shown that dietary MSG and other food excitotoxins, can cause destruction of specific parts of the brain. New studies have shown that high glutamate levels are closely connected to depression (especially extreme depression), schizophrenia, and other psychological problems. In the case of depression, there is a direct relation between the level of brain glutamate and the severity of the depression.
With so many Americans eating such large quantities of foods containing excitotoxins, it is no wonder we are seeing so many cases of depression and suicides in our society. But, it gets worse. A new study found that MSG in the diet dramatically increased the activation of the brain’s immune system, which is actually very bad.
It is known that as we age, our brain’s immune system (called microglia) becomes overactive, resulting in a low-grade inflammation of the brain. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients have even higher levels of brain immune inflammation due to this overactive brain immunity and the severity of these diseases is directly proportional to the intensity of this immune activity.
Now comes the shocking news: A recent study in a prestigious journal found that when an infant animal was fed MSG even for just a few doses, it increased the brain’s immune activation dramatically and it lasted until adulthood. This means that adults who eat MSG (even hidden forms) daily are dramatically increasing their brain inflammation, which also dramatically increases their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease.
When you add yearly flu vaccines (even the mercury-free ones), you magnify this damage tremendously. This explains the 10-fold increase in Alzheimer’s disease in people over 55 who receive the flu vaccine every year for five years. The MSG in the food acts to “prime” the microglia, sort of like idling the engine of a car. Studies show that if you then vaccinate a person, these primed microglia become intensely overactive and create widespread damage in the brain for a prolonged period of time. There are extensive activated microglia in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients’ brains.
Researchers are now convinced that this is the prime cause of these diseases. Combined with the studies on vaccinating pregnant women mentioned above, people — and especially parents — should be especially wary of vaccines. Consider this when public health officials recommend the new HPV vaccine (Gardasil), or any vaccine, for your young daughter. I can assure you that your doctor has never heard of these things.
To avoid these disasters, you must look not only for MSG on the label, but also for such hidden names as hydrolyzed protein, vegetable proteins, caseinate, whey protein concentrate, soy protein, soy isolates or concentrates, broth, stock, natural flavoring, spices, autolyzed enzymes, yeast extract, autolyzed yeast and carrageenan.
Dr. Russell Blaylock
Get the Most Out of Your Medical Exam
[My LDL converts to the extremely harmful Small Particle LDL and my HDL converts to the least beneficial HDL3 when I don't eat enough healthy fats and if I eat too many whole grain carbs (even when I was eating no sugar or white starch!). The trigger level for me is about 25% of my calories have to be from healthy fats (molecularly-distilled fish oil, raw seeds & nuts, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil). All carbs have to be whole grain, and even then can only be eaten in limited amounts. Raw vegetables that are washed in vegetable wash and scrubbed should make up a large amount of your diet, along with a few fruits that are not too sweet (or supplement extracts with no added sugar or corn syrup). When we chew our food, we get about 10% of the phytonutrients from them; blenderizing (with VitaMix 5000) lets you absorb about 90% of the nutrition from them, but you also need to be careful to choose certain vegetables each day, too. See the "Cancer Fasting" page on my website www.distance-healer.com, along with the other pages -- they apply to being healthier from all kinds of diseases, not just cancer.]
The best way to get more from your doctor visit is to open lines of communication. Here’s a list of what you should ask about the next time you have blood work done:
1. A complete breakdown of your cholesterol — specifically the measure of the two types of LDL cholesterol: large, buoyant LDL and small, dense LDL. High levels of small-dense LDL-cholesterol increases the risk of its oxidation, and this increases risk. High levels of HDL-cholesterol usually lower your risk, but only if you are free of chronic inflammation. The combination of antioxidants and high HDL is very protective against heart attacks and strokes. The small, dense LDL level should be less than 20 mg/dl. HDL cholesterol levels should be over 55 mg/dl. This should be mostly of the HDL2 type, which should be greater than 15 mg/dl.
2. Lipoprotein(a) levels — This is a hereditary factor. If your father’s or mother’s level was high, yours will also likely be high. Some studies have shown that an elevated lipoprotein(a) increases your risk of a heart attack or stroke by 70 percent. Levels should be less than 10 mg/dl.
3. C-reactive protein — This test is more indicative of heart and stroke risk than cholesterol. This test measures inflammation, a key factor in atherosclerosis. The most accurate test is the highly sensitive CRP, called hs-CRP. Your level should be less than 1.69 mg/l.
4. Homocysteine — This measures a breakdown product found during the metabolism of the amino acid methionine. Even levels that are in the higher ranges of normal put you at a high risk of a stroke or heart attack. Your level should be between 4.72 and 7.0 umol/l.
5. Fibrinogen — This tests measures how easily your blood coagulates. A high level means your blood clots very easily, increasing your risk of a heart attack. Your level should be between 180 and 350 mg/dl.
Dr. Russell Blaylock
Little girls across the country as young as nine years old all being subjected to a dubiously approved vaccine, in order to make their considerably low risk of a certain cancer even lower. Well, guess what—this nightmare could become a reality in no time, thanks to the masterminds behind the Vioxx scandal, and their latest pet project, Gardasil. First off, let’s get one thing straight. Pay no attention to what they might say—Merck has not come up with a cervical cancer vaccine. What they’ve developed is a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
And what exactly is HPV, you might ask? Well, to be blunt: genital warts. Or rather, the virus that causes genital warts. But here’s the deal: There are more than 30 sexually transmittable strains of this virus. Lucky for the majority of the “active” adult population (as it turns out, about 80 percent of us have it or have had it in the past), only a few of these will actually manifest as a case of warts. The rest of them go completely undetected — and are otherwise harmless — unless of course, you happen to be female. In that case, about a dozen of these silent strains can lead to cervical dysplasia —precancerous changes in the cells of your cervix.
Merck would have you believe that this is breaking news—“Tell someone!” they urge. But the fact of the matter is that doctors have known about this link for quite some time now. Which is precisely why every woman—by the time she’s sexually active or reaches the age of 18, whichever comes first— is strongly advised to have an annual Pap test.
Consider the following information, courtesy of the American Cancer Society:
• Most HPV infections go away without causing cervical changes — but HPV that doesn’t go away over many years can lead to cervical cancer.
• The cell changes that HPV can cause in the cervix can be treated. Most cervical cancers can be prevented. In fact, cervical cancer is rare today in women who get their Pap tests.
Awfully convenient for Merck to be advertising the importance of prevention now, isn’t it? I’m not saying that the HPV/cancer connection shouldn’t have been given a whole lot more discussion. And considering the fact that almost all cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in women who either haven’t had a Pap test in five years, or who have never had one at all, this information might have conveyed the true importance of a trip to the doctor that, much like the dentist, many women would avoid if they could, but does the introduction of Gardasil mean that they can skip the trip now? Oh, no—in fact, the injection covers less than half of the potentially cancer-causing strains of HPV. And what about the percentage, albeit very small, of women whose cervical cancer isn’t caused by HPV? I’ll say it again: Merck has not come up with a cervical cancer vaccine. But that’s how they’re marketing it — and hey, it’s almost true. I mean, what did you expect them to do? Launch a marketing campaign touting a cure to the most common STD in the country? How in the world could they convince parents and even mindless bureaucrats to mandate that for 9-year-old girls?
I think we all know the answer to that one: They couldn’t. This sales strategy clearly called for more subtle tactics. If you have young children or grandchildren, demand that this fictional cancer vaccine be exposed for what it is. What’s next? Forcefully inoculate our pre-teens against syphilis? The truth is, we’re being lied to. Tell everyone.
And just when you think the bad news—and bad information —can’t get any worse, enter the FDA… The bedfellow of my enemy is my friend? From the same agency that tried to get Merck to put Vioxx back on the shelves after it was linked to 27,000+ heart attacks, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you…Ketek.
The fact that the antibiotic Ketek is still on pharmacy shelves—after being pinned as the cause of at least 14 incidents of acute liver failure (leading to at least four deaths), and of serious liver damage in 110 others—is a travesty. But if you think that’s the worst part, you haven’t heard anything yet.
Turns out, the FDA knew that Ketek wasn’t to be trusted— but they let it loose on the market (and on us) anyway. And this isn’t one of those cases where there’s a lot of ambiguity. Outright fraud was exposed in the main study supporting the drug’s safety in January of 2003. In March 2004, Dr. Maria “Anne” Kirkman Campbell, one of the main sources of recruitment in this flawed study, pleaded guilty to accusations that she fabricated the data she sent to Sanofi- Aventis, Ketek’s manufacturer. Now, she’s serving a sentence of four years and nine months in federal prison.
And yet in April of 2004, one month after her indictment, the drug was officially approved for public use. That’s right—those sham statistics weren’t a secret to anyone involved. But the Ketek conspiracy was kept under wraps—by none other than our guardian angels at the FDA. Of course, once the cat was out of the bag—and after playing craps with a countless number of lives—they finally got serious about protecting American lives and did what any responsible agency would do. They required one restriction: a warning label. According to a June 29 press release, “The agency has concluded that the drug’s benefit to patients for the approved indications outweighs its risk, including the rare risk of liver failure, and supports its continued availability.”
So what does Ketek treat that the benefit would outweigh the risk of liver failure? Wait, wait…don’t tell me. If you guessed the maddening, life-threatening, can’t-live-another-day- with-it agony of a sinus infection…ding, ding, ding…you win the prize! Hmmm…liver failure or sinus infection? How do I choose?
Clearly, the FDA has made their choice—and it looks like they’d rather be sleeping with the enemy. After all, Big Pharma really is their sugar daddy, so the “favors” are par for the course. And what does a loving agency give to the multi-national conglomerate that already has everything?
As of June 30, a plan went into effect that will supposedly “simplify” all of the information that you receive with your prescription drugs from here on out. Translation: the FDA will now collaborate closely with drug companies to decide what information is most important for you to know, and which details can be, well…dismissed.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I’m having a little trouble trusting this particular dynamic duo. Aside from it being an FDA-endorsed tool for out-and-out consumer deception, this new rule also happens to serve another, more discreet purpose. Through the magical art of wily wording, it conveniently exempts drug companies from state product liability laws. And with all that free time on their hands, just think of all the sick 16-year-olds the courts will be able to persecute now.
Dr. Russell Blaylock
Gardasil's Dangers, Limitations Are Reported
by Sanjit Bagchi (http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=21696)
Gardasil, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that several state legislatures are considering mandating girls must receive to attend school, may be more dangerous than consumers have been led to believe, a public-interest group reported in late May.
After obtaining information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through a Freedom of Information Act request, Washington, DC-based Judicial Watch reported 1,637 adverse events involving Gardasil, including three deaths related to the vaccine.
"As of May 11, 2007, the 1,637 adverse vaccination reactions reported to the FDA via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) included 371 serious reactions," Judicial Watch reported in a news release. "Of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects ranging from spontaneous abortion to fetal abnormalities."
The three deaths were caused by heart problems or blood clots after the patients received Gardasil.
Acceptable Risk?
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) determined Gardasil could be used in girls as young as nine. The vaccine is recommended for women aged 11 to 26 to prevent HPV, the nation's most common sexually transmitted disease. According to the CDC, it infects 6.2 million people nationwide every year and leads to approximately 9,700 new cases of cervical cancer each year.
But "the FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton stated in a news release.
Alexandra Stewart, assistant research professor at George Washington University's Department of Health Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Services, noted all drugs involve some risk.
"It is expected with all medical products or drugs, that some risk must be assumed and that the FDA and ACIP have done their respective jobs in ensuring the best possible outcomes for consumers," Stewart said. "It is expected that the three deaths will not significantly alter vaccine policy in regard to Gardasil, as an acceptable level of risk has already been considered and factored into the licensing and recommendation decisions."
Limited Effect
Judicial Watch is not the only group warning against Gardasil. An editorial published in the May 10 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) raised questions about the vaccine's effectiveness. The editorial, written by George F. Sawaya, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California-San Francisco, and a colleague, said Gardasil is only modestly effective.
"A cautious approach may be warranted in light of important unanswered questions about overall vaccine effectiveness, duration of protection, and adverse effects that may emerge over time," Sawaya wrote. "HPV vaccination has the potential for profound public health benefit if the most optimistic scenario of effectiveness is realized."
Another editorial in the same issue, written by Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey M. Drazen and others, highlighted three of Gardasil's limitations: The two strains of HPV it protects against do not cause all cervical cancer; vaccination must take place before young women are infected with either of those two strains; and "whether this approach will extend the paradigm of vaccination to the prevention of death and disability from cervical cancer is an unanswered question."
"We must also carefully monitor for unintended adverse consequences of vaccination," Drazen and his colleagues wrote.
For more information:
VAERS Line List Report, http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2007/GardasilVAERSDeaths.pdf and http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2007/GardasilVAERSReports.pdf.
"HPV Vaccination--More Answers, More Questions," by George F. Sawaya, M.D. and Karen Smith-McCune, M.D., Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine, May 10, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/19/1991
Girls Hospitalised after Vaccine
by Danialle Cronin
Six Canberra schoolgirls were taken to hospital after they suffered a bad reaction to a vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer, health officials said yesterday.
Girls in Sydney and Melbourne had also complained about side-effects including dizziness, fainting, nausea and temporary paralysis after they were immunised.
Health Minister Tony Abbott urged parents to continue vaccinating their children against cervical cancer despite the emerging reports.
ACT Acting Chief Health Officer Charles Guest said there had been six instances where Canberra girls had been taken to hospital for observation after an adverse reaction to the vaccine, Gardasil.
They experienced symptoms such as fainting and anxiety but were not seriously unwell.
The girls spent a short time in hospital and were sent home after they were checked by medical staff.
"We're taking the reports seriously and we will continue to monitor the situation," Dr Guest said. "But we always monitor vaccine side-effects very carefully and if a pattern emerges that will be investigated in due course.
"I think the message would be that the vaccine appears to be safe and we are encouraging people to continue with the program at this point."
About 4000 Canberra schoolgirls had been vaccinated since the Federal Government's immunisation program kicked off a few weeks ago.
Females aged 12 to 26 would be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus, which caused about 70 per cent of cervical cancers.
More than 200 Australian women die annually from cervical cancer, and Gardasil developed by 2006 Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer is the world's first vaccine against the disease.
It emerged that five Melbourne schoolgirls were also taken to hospital after they received the vaccine.
The five students from Sacred Heart Girls' College were among more than 20 who reported to the school's sick bay on May 7 after being injected with Gardasil.
"A number of students were transported to Monash Medical Centre and two were kept overnight for observation and discharged the next day," a spokesman for the Victorian Department of Human Services said.
Student Natasha D'Souza said she collapsed and was left paralysed for six hours after being injected.
"I couldn't move at all. There were girls dropping like flies, basically," she said.
Ms D'Souza said she had been vaccinated in the past but her reaction to Gardasil was different.
Fellow student Brooke Levy, who was taken to hospital, said she thought she might pass out or vomit after she was vaccinated.
But authorities believed their reactions were likely to be related to having an injection not the vaccine itself.
Mr Abbott said it was not usual for people to experience side-effects such as fainting, dizziness, headaches or skin rash but these were rarely serious.
"While certainly I have asked for further checks to be done because it's very important we assure ourselves that this vaccine is as safe as reasonably possible I would counsel parents against undue alarm," Mr Abbott said.
"I would strongly discourage parents from preventing these vaccinations from going ahead because cervical cancer kills some 270 Australian women every year."
Sacred Heart Girls' College headmaster Christopher Dalton said hospital staff had told teachers that the girls' reactions were not related to the vaccination itself.
AAP
Prevention of a Devilish Sort
The recent television ads for a new vaccine against cervical cancer are pretty compelling, with healthy, attractive young women talking about how they want to stay that way. If you believe those ads, the path to their continued good health runs right through their doctor’s office.
The vaccine, called Gardasil, reportedly protects against four of the main variants (types 6, 11, 16 and 18) of the human papilloma virus (HPV). These four types cause 90 percent of genital warts, and two of these strains are responsible for 70 percent of the cervical cancers. Gardasil doesn’t treat or eliminate existing HPV infections; it’s used as a preventive measure only. Infections of HPV are spread only through unprotected sex, and are very common—particularly among teens and college-aged women who are sexually active. (The vaccine’s manufacturer, Merck, tested their product on females age 9 to 26. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease among females in that age range.) In 90 percent of the cases the body’s immune system clears the infection on its own without any further problems. Again, two of the strains targeted by this vaccine are thought to be responsible for the roughly 9,700 yearly cases of cervical cancer in this country. Out of that number of patients, about 3,700 will die.
Since Gardasil isn’t for treatment, only prevention, it is thought that girls must receive the vaccination before they become sexually active. Several states are in discussions right now over the possibility of making the vaccine mandatory for all girls starting at about the 6th grade level. The Virginia legislature has just passed such a bill, and here in Texas governor Rick Perry bypassed the legislature altogether and issued a decree making the vaccine manadatory beginning with the 2008-09 school year. (This is a hot topic at the moment, so it’s possible that other states will have enacted similar laws by the time you read this letter.)
The vaccine is administered in three shots over a sixmonth period at a cost of $300–500 (not counting office visit or doctor’s fees) and is reportedly effective for a period of five years (which I would assume means all of these girls/women would need to repeat the vaccination every five years).
I’m sure there will be a lot of debate over these vaccination programs as there has been in the past with others. I certainly have some concerns about the vaccinations in general, in addition to making them legally required in order to attend school.
The tests for the vaccine only lasted four years, so we obviously don’t know what the long-term effects might be—if any. Even the FDA, which approved the vaccine, expressed concern that it hadn’t been tested to determine if it might cause cancer, impair future fertility or reproductive capacity, or cause harm to fetuses already developing at the time of the mother’s vaccination. The 9-year-old girls in the study haven’t even reached the age where they are likely to become pregnant.
In the clinical trials, over 3 percent of the infants being breast-fed by mothers using the vaccine experienced serious side effects, and three times as many infants experienced respiratory illness compared to those of mothers receiving a placebo.
In summary, I think it will take a lot longer than four years to learn if the vaccine is safe or not. In the meantime, Merck will get a free ride by using hundreds of thousands of young women as guinea pigs—and pocket millions of dollars in the process. Even though I’m not naïve enough to believe it’s achievable, it’s worth mentioning that HPV infections are (although many other diseases are not) 100 percent preventable by using condoms and not having multiple sex partners (as opposed to what our public schools are teaching), or better, waiting until you're ready for a commitment to a lifetime monogamous relationship (marriage).
Legislated Profit We may be seeing another trend in marketing by pharmaceutical companies: having states pass laws to make various vaccines, screening tests, and treatments mandatory. This is probably one of slickest marketing tools ever.
There have been numerous instances of this tactic over the years, particularly ones aimed at schoolchildren. Just this year thousands of children were sent home from school in Maryland because their parents didn’t provide proof of vaccinations against chicken pox and hepatitis B—both of which have been added to the required regimen in many jurisdictions.
Another example occurred last year in New Jersey, where the governor signed legislation requiring health care professionals who provide prenatal care to educate women and their families about postpartum depression (PPD) and requiring health care professionals who provide postnatal care to screen new mothers for the disorder. In a press release, it was stated that 80 percent of women experience some degree of depression following childbirth, and one in eight of these (11,000 to 16,000 in New Jersey alone) develop what is clinically defined as postpartum depression (PPD).
As you might guess, the “accepted” treatment for PPD is counseling and, of course, drug therapy with antidepressants. It’s heartbreaking to think how many new mothers will follow the miracle of childbirth (and starting a new family) with a lifelong dependence on an antidepressant.
PPD is a very real problem, but it definitely doesn’t stem from a drug deficiency. The added nutritional and hormonal stress of pregnancy often leaves the mother’s body chemistry totally out of balance following childbirth. One of the most common problems seems to stem from depletion of the adrenal (or stress) glands. If you recall, hormones from the adrenal glands work in conjunction with hormones from the pancreas to help regulate blood sugar. They also help the kidneys regulate mineral levels in the body. Physical or mental stress, poor diet (excess sugar or carbohydrates), skipping meals, alcohol, and smoking are some of the primary causes of weakened adrenals. During and immediately before pregnancy a poor diet, particularly consuming too much sugar or high-carbohydrate meals, will quickly weaken the adrenals.
As you’ve probably noticed, during the first three months of pregnancy many women experience a great deal of fatigue and a total lack of energy. Beginning sometime during the second trimester they oftentimes get a huge burst of energy and heightened sense of wellbeing. These women will say things like, “This is the best I’ve ever felt in my life.” And this newfound energy remains with them until they give birth, when all of the sudden it feels like the whole world collapses around them (PPD). There’s a logical reason for these changes, which also provides a basis for fixing the problem. Women who have weak adrenals at the start of the pregnancy are subjected to additional stress and nutritional problems in the beginning. During the second trimester the child’s adrenal glands begin to develop, along with the thyroid, pituitary, and other glands. And since the mother and child share a circulatory system she begins to benefit from the baby’s hormones. In effect, she begins to “feed off” the baby. She begins to experience more energy and that overall sense of well-being. It couldn’t get any better. Her body has discovered a fresh new source of everything she’s been missing.
But when the baby is born, the mother is abruptly cut off from her newfound lifeline. Within a day or two of giving birth, the mother can go from the highest high to the lowest low and never know what hit her. No one offers her an explanation. If anything, she might be told it’s normal to experience the depression and fatigue and it’s something she just needs to work through—and maybe some antidepressants might help.
The underlying problem, however, needs to be corrected. The adrenal glands (and often the thyroid and pituitary glands) must be given nutritional support. Sugar has to be eliminated. Additional minerals, B vitamins, and essential fatty acids (predominantly omega-3s) must be added to the diet. I’ve seen dramatic changes in just a matter of days through proper nutritional support, particularly using glandular supplements for the adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary glands (as I’ve described in the past). The problem isn’t correctable with drugs. Before leaving this topic, I want to mention that the child must not be forgotten. For months during a critical development stage the growing baby’s hormonal system has been under additional stress. While babies have the potential to rebound rather quickly, they are often born with weakened adrenal glands and can experience major problems with blood sugar control. These are the same kids who are practically addicted to sugar, and the same ones who are later diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. They need the same treatment as the mother: nutritional intervention, not drugs.
Money Makes the World Go ‘Round I guess I got sidetracked from my original topic, but whenever I see legislated requirements for medical screenings, vaccinations, and the like, I think a bit of healthy skepticism is in order—particularly when it comes to our children.
I think it’s also relevant to keep in mind that these efforts are not necessarily altruistic actions on the part of the pharmaceutical companies. They are undoubtedly fueled by the promise of future profits.
My latest count shows that 18 states are now debating the requiring of Gardasil vaccination for schoolgirls. Not surprisingly, Merck is funneling money through an organization called Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators from all over the country. Many of the bills currently being considered have been introduced by members of Women in Government. A top official from Merck’s vaccine division also sits on the Women in Government business council.
Merck has declined to specify just how much money it has spent on lobbyists or donated to Women in Government, but I would suspect the amount is substantial. After all, one drug industry analyst I spoke with projected Gardasil sales of at least $1 billion a year and billions more if states legislate to require the vaccine. If you have daughters or granddaughters who are of the age under discussion here, it would be worth your while to check with your state legislators and see what their take is on the matter.
Take care,
Dr. David Williams (www.drdavidwilliams.com)
FDA Fraud: New Studies Prove Vaccines Cause Autism
by EVELYN PRINGLE
On Feb 9, 2004, the National Autism Association issued a press release that reported on one of the larger studies under review based on the Center for Disease Control's Vaccine Safety Datalink. Under independent investigation, the Association reported, of the CDC's data children were found to be 27-times more likely to develop autism after exposure to three thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs), than those who receive thimerosal-free versions.
Let that sink in.
Twenty-seven times more likely to develop autism. Then consider that our government regulatory agencies had this information for years and deliberately kept it hidden from the public.
This failure to warn the public was not due to negligence
or laziness, it was a deliberate cover-up and it continues today.
How do we know they had it for years? Because the staff for Rep Dan Burton (R-Ill) obtained an FDA internal e-mail written on June 29, 1999, by former FDA scientist Peter Patriarca, that offered a "pros and cons" assessment of the dishonest statement about Thimerosal in vaccines that the FDA was about to release, and described the questions that could be raised upon its release:
(1) FDA being `asleep at the switch' for decades, by allowing a potentially hazardous compound to remain in many childhood vaccines, and not forcing manufacturers to exclude it from new products.
(2) various advisory bodies aggressive recommendations for use. (3) the
dose of ethyl mercury was not generated by `rocket science': conversion of the % of thimerosal to actual ug [micrograms] of mercury involves 9th grade algebra.
(4) What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?
(5) Why didn't CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations while rapidly expanding the childhood immunization schedule?
The FDA knew.
In 1997, Congress passed the FDA Modernization Act, which required the FDA to review all drugs that contained mercury and determine their adverse effects on humans. For many years, Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, was added to childhood vaccines in multi-dose bottles, basically to increase profits for vaccine makers.
Thimerosal is nearly 50% mercury, which is a known to be extremely harmful to fetuses, infants and children. Beginning in 1987 and throughout the 1990s, it became the main source of mercury in infants and toddlers when the number of vaccines added to the national vaccine schedule nearly tripled.
In 2000, the FDA determined that a twelve-to-fourteen month old child, receiving vaccines required under the Immunization Schedule, often received four to six shots during one doctor visit. Consequently over time, the child would be injected with as much as 40 times the amount of mercury considered safe.
The corresponding increase in autism is concrete evidence of the link between autism and vaccines. Twenty years ago, autism only affected one in 10,000 children. The Autism Autoimmunity Project reports that the disorder strikes 1 in 150 (or 1 in 68 families) today.
During the 1990s, as some 40 million children were vaccinated, drug company profits soared and there's no doubt that the companies knew about the dangers of Thimerosal and put profits over the health of a whole generation of children.
The LA Times obtained a 1991 internal memo from the drug company, Merck, that proves the company knew then that Thimerosal in vaccines posed a serious health threat. The memo noted that 6-month-old children who received their shots on schedule would get a mercury dose up to 87 times higher than guidelines for the maximum daily consumption of mercury from fish.
As the vaccines increased, autism rates skyrocketed and the numbers don't lie. State by state statistics based on data by the Department of Education, show that the increase in the number of children aged 6-21 with autism between 1992-93 and 2003-04, is astronomical. In Ohio there were 22 cases of autism in 1992-93, and in 2003-04 there were 5146. In Illinois, there were only 5 cases in 1992-1993, while there were 6005 in 2003-04. Mississippi had no cases of autism in 1992-1993, but had 622 in 2003-04. Wisconsin had 18 cases in 1992-93 and 3259 in 2003-04.
In addition to autism, Thimerosal has now been linked to a host of developmental disorders including Attention Deficit Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and ironically, the pharmaceutical industry is now making money hand over fist off drugs prescribed to treat children with these disorders.
The drug companies can pay doctors, researchers and reporters to write a million articles and reports that say there is no connection between Thimerosal and autism, but that won't change the truth. Thimerosal is the culprit and a million false denial won't change that fact.
Plenty of experts with nothing to gain say so. When asked to what degree of scientific certainty can we prove that current epidemic of autism was caused by the mercury-based preservative, Thimerosal, in childhood vaccines? Dr David Ayoub, MD, said "I can state that the certainty of the science supporting mercury as a major cause of autism is probably more overpowering than the science behind any other disease process that I studied dating back to medical school."
In May 2003 the AAP stated, "All routinely recommended infant vaccines currently sold in the U.S. are free of thimerosal as a preservative and have been for more than two years." Yet because the FDA maintained it did not have enough evidence to justify a recall of thimerosal vaccines distributed prior to the introduction of thimerosal-free versions and so they were allowed to remain on the market until they became outdated. That means that poisonous vaccines were still administered until November 2002.
"Because the FDA chose not to recall thimerosal-containing vaccines in 1999," the April 2003, House Committee on Government Reform report concludes, "in addition to all of those already injured, 8,000 children a day continued to be placed at risk for overdose for at least an additional two years." Parents need to know that flu vaccines currently recommended for infants and pregnant women still contain Thimerosal to this very day.
The CDC and FDA policy decisions about matter such as approving vaccines for inclusion on the immunization schedule are made by physician advisory boards whose members very often have strong financial relationships with the very same pharmaceutical companies that they are supposed to regulate.
For example, during a congressional hearing on potential conflicts of interests at the FDA, it was revealed that 60% of the advisory members who voted to approve the poisonous rotavirus vaccine had financial ties to the drug companies manufacturing the vaccine. The committee also found that 50% of the CDC members were tied to the rotavirus makers.
The public needs to rise up and demand accountability from the officials in charge of all regulatory agencies involved in concealing information that could have saved many families from the devastation of these ill-administered vaccines.
In order to enroll in public schools and day care, children must comply with mandatory vaccine schedule, which includes vaccines that have not undergone the scientific testing necessary to guarantee their safety, and have the potential to harm millions of children.
If families are expected to trust the government's vaccine approval process, they have a right to demand that the vaccines are approved based on scientific research, without the undue influence of money passed out to politicians, scientists, and the heads of the regulatory agencies, by the pharmaceutical industry.
The children who were affected by this cover-up will require care and support for a lifetime. The lives of many of these children are destroyed. The costs for their care, left to their families, will reportedly exceed $2 million per child.
The drug companies and the government officials involved in this vaccine marketing scheme and the subsequent cover-up of the damage it caused need to be criminally charged and made to pay for their crimes.
The National Vaccine Information Center's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showed 82 reported adverse reactions linked to Merck's vaccine as of press time, ranging from seizures to passing out, but none were fatal. However, as Gardasil has only been approved since June 2006, the long-term effects of the vaccine and the longevity of its protection have yet to be observed.
"The long-term advantages of the vaccine -- and it seems likely that there will be some -- and the detrimental aspects we just do not know yet," said Jim Fussell, campaign manager for the Health Freedom Foundation and American Association for Health Freedom (www.HealthFreedom.net). "We are rushing into this."
Opponents of the mandatory vaccinations have said they fear it might be seen as a go-ahead for underage sex, since it must be administered at such a young age -- to be most effective, Gardasil must be injected before a girl's first sexual experience -- and both supporters and opponents of the vaccine's mandatory status are also questioning why boys are not also included in the orders and proposed laws since they can carry and transmit HPV. Perhaps the most prevalent objection to the shot, though, is that it completely circumvents parents' rights to make medical decisions for their children.
Mike Adams (www.newstarget.com)
Medical tyranny in Texas turns teenage girls into HPV vaccination profit centers
by Mike Adams
(NewsTarget / Opinion) This is an important health freedom update from Mike Adams. If you believe in your health freedom, and you believe that forced vaccinations of children have gone too far, then you need to know the real story about what's happening in Texas right now.
On Friday, Feb. 2, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order that bypassed the will of the people and the entire Texas legislature, mandating the vaccination of young girls with the HPV vaccine sold by Merck -- the same drug company that reportedly gave thousands to Perry's campaign efforts. The vaccine is absolutely worthless as a medical treatment according to top docs in the alternative health field, and in my opinion, the so-called "science" supporting the vaccine as the only prevention for cervical cancer is an outright fraud.
But the story gets even more interesting when you start connecting the dots. A key Merck lobbyist, a man named Mike Toomey, actually served as the governor's chief of staff. In other words, a former top power person for the governor now works for Merck, the drug company that gave money to the campaign of the governor who essentially used dictatorial power to mandate, without any public debate whatsoever, the mass vaccination of young girls with a drug that will earn tens of millions of dollars in profits for Merck. Sound suspicious? It should.
The "dirty money connection" seems obvious to many readers who have been following this story, including one who posted, "Only a man, Rick Perry especially, would sign an executive order, bypassing legislation, to inject girls with chemicals made by one of his contributors even though most parents have never seen sufficient information about this vaccine. Perry should be impeached as a threat to the safety of our children." (See http://blogs.chron.com/texaspolitics/archives/2007/02/lawmakers_resci.html)
The humanitarian cover story
Drug companies are experts at framing their profit pursuits as public health initiatives. "We have to protect the little girls!" they insist, but what's really going on behind closed doors is a far less altruistic push -- the push for profits. Requiring millions of young girls to get these new vaccines just happens to generate enormous profits for Merck. But Merck officials, and even the governor of Texas, would have you believe that has nothing to do with this. Apparently, the fact that Merck will earn obscene profits from this initiative never entered their minds.
Nonsense. If Merck really wants to help these teenage girls, why don't they pledge to give away all their vaccines free of charge? In fact, if they're such a humanitarian organization, why don't they give away all their drugs, and release third world countries from patent protection at the same time? The answer, of course, is because this is all about money, not public health. If Merck was really about "patients first," they should convert to a 501(c)3 non-profit, stop paying their CEOs $10+ million salaries, and give all their drugs away for free as a gift to humankind, shouldn't they?
That will never happen, of course, because it really is about the money. The sick care industry is a for-profit industry, and the more people drug companies can target as being sick today -- or even possibly someday being sick at some future date that "justifies" treatment right now -- the more money they can sock away in the bank. When it comes to money, it seems drug companies will stop at nothing to get more of it, including influencing state officials to mandate vaccine consumption policies that have nothing whatsoever to do with evidence-based medicine or genuine compassion for the health and lives of human beings.
What's happening in Texas right now is a form of medical tyranny, and it's only the beginning of what may prove to be a monumental battle between personal freedoms vs. the corporate-controlled State.
We must stop the medical tyranny
If we let Texas get away with this medical tyranny, forcing all young girls to undergo these HPV vaccinations even against their parents' wishes, more states will follow suit. Merck is right now lobbying hard to pass similar measures in over twenty other states, and if we don't put a stop to the Texas situation, Merck will feel emboldened and likely urge other governors to make the same declarations in their states, calling it a "public health" measure but actually pocketing the profits from massive sales of these vaccines.
What can you do?
I say we fight the tyranny by exposing it. Today, NewsTarget.com published a CounterThink cartoon that hits this issue hard, exposing the financial connection between Merck and Gov. Perry while illustrating the utter insanity of having young girls line up to get vaccine shots for a disease that can be prevented a hundred other ways. See cartoon on www.newstarget.com
You can take action to spread the word on this issue. POST this cartoon to your website and LINK to our articles on this topic. We give you full permission to reprint this cartoon and forward it to your friends. Expose this medical madness before we all end up prisoners under a system of medical tyranny that turns the bodies of teenage girls into profit centers for Big Pharma! And unlike Merck, we don't care about the intellectual property royalties on this comic. Make as many copies as you want. Print up T-shirts. Add it to your book. Use it as you wish, and you don't owe me a dime. Why? Because I actually do care about my fellow human beings and I'm here to help stop the medical madness sweeping America today.
Speak up now or surrender your health freedoms forever
You see, if we don't stand up to this kind of medical tyranny, it will only get worse. This debate is not merely about one vaccine, it's about surrendering your health freedom to a medical system that is owned and controlled by Big Pharma. Drug companies practically run the FDA, the EPA and even control the FTC (when was the last time the FTC investigated and prosecuted drug company monopolies?). Drug companies influence the DEA to keep their own drugs legal while the exact same "street" drugs are illegal. They own our elected officials, almost all of which accepted at least some money from drug companies in their last election campaign. Drug companies also own the mainstream media by propping up television networks, cable networks, newspapers, magazines and websites with literally billions of dollars in advertising. On top of that, drug companies heavily influence the medical journals and medical schools, and have effectively limited the entire conventional medical industry to a "drugs and surgery" approach to health, practically censoring nutritional knowledge out of existence.
Given this environment, is anyone supposed to believe we will see anything resembling honest debate or genuine science about this HPV vaccine? The entire industry, including drug companies, doctors, medical journals and the mainstream media, is twisting the facts to create the illusion that these vaccines are both safe and effective when, in reality, they are probably neither. Nor are they necessary. Cervical cancer is prevented in a hundred other ways, including adequate sunlight exposure and vitamin D consumption, supplementation with probiotics, adequate intake of selenium and zinc, increased consumption of trace minerals and iodine, DIM, cruciferous vegetables, regular physical exercise and many other safe, natural, non-patented strategies.
America is being hoodwinked over the HPV vaccine. To call this anything resembling genuine public health policy is an absolute joke. It's really just a grand moneymaking scheme that exploits the bodies of young girls, marketed to look like compassionate health care. Supporters of this policy are shameless, ignorant and devious in framing their nonsensical arguments using carefully-chosen words and phrases that make them seem like they're delivering a cancer cure from God. But in reality, mandatory HPV vaccines are a deal with the devil.
Consider this: With all the drugs being prescribed, all the toxic chemicals being consumed, and all the diseases now ravaging America -- a country with the highest rates of degenerative disease in the world -- does anybody really think that injecting one more drug is the answer? You'd have to be crazy to think so.
The forced poisoning of Abraham Cherrix, the tyranny of modern medicine, and state-sponsored assaults on health freedom
by Mike Adams
Across the nation, an increasing number of families are having their lives destroyed by the greed and arrogance of conventional medicine and its toxic cancer treatments. Families are arrested at gunpoint, jailed, prosecuted and separated from their children by Child Protective Services, all due to the demands of arrogant doctors who insist on treating cancer with conventional chemotherapy that's so toxic, it almost kills the patient before killing the cancer cells.
Conventional medicine is so desperate to push its high-profit services onto patients that it now resorts to kidnapping children and incarcerating parents in order to enforce its "authority" over all health care decisions. But some parents are wising up, and they're fleeing conventional cancer treatment centers to seek safer, more natural alternative treatments elsewhere. That's where this story begins.
Another case of "Gunpoint Medicine" fiasco emerged this week as Abraham Cherrix, a 16-year-old Hodgkin's disease sufferer, decided he didn't want a second round of chemotherapy. The first round nearly killed him, leaving him so frail and weak that he couldn't walk. With the support of his parents, Abraham began to educate himself about alternative cancer treatments, telling his oncologist he did not wish to experience any more chemotherapy.
As he explains, "This is my body that I'm supposed to take care of. I should have the right to tell someone what I want to do with this body. I studied. I did research. I came to this conclusion that the chemotherapy was not the route I wanted to take."
Arrogant doctors insist on poisoning children
But freedom of choice is not allowed by the quack doctors of conventional medicine. As always happens in these cases, the doctor was apparently so enraged by the idea that any patient would not want to submit to his authority that he called the county social services which promptly had the parents arrested and acquired joint custody over the teen. Social services Gestapo members are now in court arguing that the state should force the teen to undergo yet more chemotherapy, as demanded by his doctor.
A judge will now decide Abraham's fate. If the judge orders him back to chemotherapy, Abraham and his family will then become fugitives merely for making their own informed decisions about which type of cancer treatment they wish to pursue. Armed agents will hunt down the family, and Abraham will be effectively forced to undergo chemotherapy at gunpoint. Hence the term, "Gunpoint Medicine."
Conventional medicine's body count
The state, it seems, will used the threat of deadly force to market conventional medicine's chemotherapy treatments. It is difficult to imagine a more authoritarian and tyrannical system of medicine than what we have today in the United States. Just as the Bush Administration unlawfully detains and tortures prisoners in Guantanamo (which the U.S. Supreme Court has recently ruled as blatantly illegal), the U.S. medical system will also use men with firearms to detain and torture patients with treatments that may kill them. As Abraham explains, "Another round [of chemotherapy] would kill me, literally. No joke about it. The first round of chemo almost killed me in itself. There were some nights I didn't know if I would make it."
Conventional medicine is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Doctors and their drugs kill more Americans each year than died in the entire Vietnam War. FDA-approved pharmaceuticals kill more Americans each month than were killed by terrorists in the 9/11 attacks. Read Death By Medicine to get the statistics.
And yet, despite there remarkable safety lapses, ignorant doctors continue to insist that alternatives are so dangerous that parents who seek them should be charged with negligence!
Cancer industry lies and Hoxsey's natural cancer treatments
The treatment being sought out by Abraham is the Hoxsey treatment. Widely ridiculed by the American Cancer Society (which has strong ties to chemotherapy drug companies) and the FDA (which routinely promotes Big Pharma and discredits alternatives), the history of Harry Hoxsey and his cancer therapies is a fascinating tour of the oppression, censorship and outright intimidation of conventional medicine when it comes to controlling the medical marketplace.
Hoxsey's anti-cancer salves, based entirely on botanicals that we now know contain powerful anti-cancer compounds, actually work very well on cancer, as health authorities grudgingly admitted in court proceedings against Hoxsey decades ago. But that didn't stop them from attacking Hoxsey as a quack, discrediting his work, having him arrested and raiding his cancer treatment clinics on multiple occasions. This is why Hoxsey eventually moved his clinic to Mexico -- a country where health freedoms are still respected, unlike in the United States. Read more about Harry Hoxsey and the history of medical oppression in our article, What the American Medical Association hopes you never learn about its true history.
The U.S. is the single most oppressive health regime in the world, where prescription drugs are sold at the highest prices in the world under a monopoly-controlled drug racket enforced by the FDA. Highly corrupt regulators and non-profit disease organizations routinely attack alternative treatments, even as most of their own members are on the take from pharmaceutical companies. The degree of corruption and fraud in U.S. medicine is unprecedented in industrialized nations.
The FDA, for its part, routinely engages in tactics of oppression and tyranny. It once ordered the destruction of recipe books about stevia, a natural herbal sweetener. The FDA has also organized and conducted multiple armed, SWAT-style raids against health clinics, vitamin shops and even a pet food store. Once, the FDA raided a church and confiscated literally tons of church literature that helped people with mental health issues. Senior citizens returning from Canada were also detained and searched for legal drugs that they purchased at discounts across the Canadian border. Again and again, the FDA and the quack promoters of conventional medicine resort to the use of firearms (or the threat of using them) to enforce our modern system of monopoly medicine. It is exactly as if conventional medicine had declared war on the American people.
Some of the more recent examples of Gunpoint Medicine in the U.S. include:
Seattle mother arrested for "kidnapping" her own baby to seek alternative treatments - When a Seattle mom rescued her baby from surgeons who were about to perform a highly invasive kidney procedure on the infant, she was hunted down, arrested at gunpoint, thrown in jail and had her baby stolen from her by Child Protective Services.
State-sponsored medical terrorism: Texas authorities arrest parents, kidnap their teenage daughter, and force her through chemotherapy against her will - When parents of 13-year-old Katie Wernecke decided to refuse radiation treatment on their daughter, they were charged with neglect and had all their children kidnapped by Child Protective Services. A judge ordered the girl to undergo toxic conventional treatments before "releasing her" to h |