Grandmother Says Gardasil Killed Her Granddaughter
A 17-year-old was about to graduate from high school when the cheerleader and softball pitcher received the first of the three-shot series of Gardasil, the Merck drug that is supposed to protect young girls from the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes two types of cervical cancer and two types of warts.
That was 19 months ago.
"I just didn't know what to think because she was so healthy. I just could not understand why she was dead. No one seemed to know why she was dead,” says her grandmother.
The teen had no health problems, but after the second shot in September 2007 she started to get bad headaches, as well as muscle aches, and joint pain, said her grandmother. The doctor thought it was stress. Her third shot was February 20, 2008. By February 22 she was dead.
Her grandmother said that after the final shot, her granddaughter said she had a headache and went to bed. That next morning her mother found her on the bathroom floor. "Without a shadow of a doubt, I know that Gardasil is what killed her," says her grandmother.
An autopsy was inconclusive.
The grandmother says she is angry with the CDC and the FDA because even today they encourage girls to get the vaccine, even though there have been about 14,000 adverse events reported to the government, including Guillian-Barre Syndrome, where the muscles become paralyzed, in addition to headaches, fainting and even death.
In fact, the CDC says it has either investigated or is currently looking at 43 reports of deaths of those who received the vaccine. Read the reports on the Web site, Judicial Watch, that had to file a FOIA to get the death reports from the government.
"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merck’s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch
Merck fast tracked the marketing of Gardasil after it had to take Vioxx off the market because the drug was causing heart attacks and stroke.
Some skeptical people even say that the company had to replace the revenue from the blockbuster drug, Vioxx. Cautious doctors say wait until a drug is on the market for five years before you take it. Gardasil was approved in June 2006.
Also parents should consider that about 80 percent of women are exposed to HPV over their lifetime and their natural immunities fight it off. No one knows if Gardasil fights cervical cancer, which has declined by 74 percent between 1955 and 1992, largely due to the Pap test, according to the American Cancer Society.
The grandmother wants everyone to know about the side effects and wants them prominently displayed. She has written the governor and Congress. She says Gardasil kills and has it posted on her car. Her license plate reads, “One Less,” a takeoff of the Merck commercials promising one less case of cervical cancer. Drug companies hate it when you use their advertising slogans to send a completely different message.
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