Gardasil warning

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http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/gardasil.asp

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As of December 31, 2008, more than 23 million doses of Gardasil were distributed in the United States.

As of December 31, 2008, there were 11,916 VAERS reports of adverse events following Gardasil vaccination in the United States. Of these reports, 94% were reports of events considered to be non-serious, and 6% were reports of events considered to be serious.

Based on all of the information we have today, CDC and FDA continue to recommend Gardasil vaccination for the prevention of 4 types of HPV. As with all approved vaccines, CDC and FDA will continue to closely monitor the safety of Gardasil. Any problems detected with this vaccine will be reported to health officials, healthcare providers, and the public, and needed action will be taken to ensure the public's health and safety.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaers/gardasil.htm

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Serious adverse event reports

VAERS defines serious adverse events as adverse events that involve hospitalization, death, permanent disability, and life-threatening illness. As with all VAERS reports, serious events may or may not have been caused by the vaccine.

All serious reports (6%) for Gardasil have been carefully analyzed by medical experts. Experts have not found a common medical pattern to the reports of serious adverse events reported for Gardasil that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine. The following is a summary of selected serious adverse event reports that were submitted to VAERS between June 8, 2006 and December 31, 2008.

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) has been reported after vaccination with Gardasil. GBS is a rare disorder that causes muscle weakness. It occurs in 1-2 out of every 100,000 people in their teens. A number of infections can cause GBS. There has been no indication that Gardasil increases the rate of GBS in girls and women above the rate expected in the general population, whether or not they were vaccinated.

Blood Clots

Rarely, people have reported blood clots after getting Gardasil. These clots have occurred in the heart, lungs, and legs. Most of these people had a risk of getting blood clots, such as taking oral contraceptives (the birth control pill).

Deaths

As of December 31, 2008, there have been 32 U.S. reports of death among females who have received the vaccine. There was no common pattern to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine.

From the same link as snopes.

[Moku]

It seems that while the Daily Mail in the UK is running an MMR type campaign against the vaccine here, the paper's Irish edition is running a campaign to promote it

http://www.layscience.net/node/507

The same newspaper that is currently attacking the HPV vaccine in Britain, with stories such as: "How safe is the cervical cancer jab?", is astonishingly campaigning FOR the HPV vaccine in its Irish edition under the following banner:
ROLL OUT THE VACCINE NOW

[Natalie]

A little anecdote about VAERS: A doctor once entered in a purposely phony report that a flu vaccine had turned him into the Hulk. A representative contacted him and he fessed up to the deception, but they still had to ask him permission to delete the record.

[Sister Ray]

Originally Posted by Natalie

A little anecdote about VAERS: A doctor once entered in a purposely phony report that a flu vaccine had turned him into the Hulk. A representative contacted him and he fessed up to the deception, but they still had to ask him permission to delete the record.

And another man, who doesn't even live in the US, submitted a report that a vaccine turned his daughter into Wonder Woman. Unlike the Hulk report, which just described him turning into someone like the Hulk, he actually said "after a vaccine my daughter turned into Wonder Woman." As far as I know, it's still in there.

Sister "and so there?" Ray