The Gardasil Issue On The Republican Campaign Trail Is About More Than He Said, She Said; It Is About Mercenary Merck And Political Acceptance Of Collateral Damage…The Lives Of Our Young Women!

The Gardasil Issue On The Republican Campaign Trail Is About More Than He Said, She Said; It Is About Mercenary Merck And Political Acceptance Of Collateral Damage…The Lives Of Our Young Women!

Let us not lose sight of the most salient fact that is being over looked in the current Rick Perry (vs) Michelle Bachmann Gardasil debate/flap. We can take it for granted at this point that Perry was on the Merck Lobbyists pay off list and that Michelle Bachmann is not terrible  bright and given to some of the most outrageous of statements; you know the type where one puts their mouth in gear before engaging their brain, and it her case it might not matter if she did engage her brain.  Information is becoming available that Perry is a rather unsavory character on multiple levels. But what both of these candidates, as well as those who persist in their ego trips and attempts to stop Mitt Romney at any cost, have not been confronted with is a debate question that might well be framed this way: “We’ve heard a lot about Governor Perry’s Mandatory Gardasil vaccination Executive Order and his subsequent retreat from that position. It seems that the retreat was motivated more by the Tea Party’s total opposition to government ordering anyone to do anything, a very self-serving position at this point, and we’ve heard other candidates chime in on the same spin line. Ms. Bachmann in her usual bombastic style has really gone out on her limb of (“If I say it has to be true”) and stirred the rhetorical pot on nonsense once again; so let me ask this question of all the candidates: If any of you have taken the time to examine the issue beyond finger pointing, mandatory concerns, Lobby Loot and political expedience; who of you is prepared to say that the vaccine should be withdrawn from the market place because of the documented damages it has inflicted on the young women of this nation, and that and investigation of the safe-certification of this product by the FDA should commence immediately… because that is a more important question than even who is on the Pharma-Industry take?”  Maybe Bachmann Got the HPV Vaccine? According to Michele Bachmann the HPV vaccine causes some girls to become “retarded”.  In a single comment she demonstrates just how foolish she is. Not only did she use socially inappropriate language but she missed the point of the HPV controversy and the outrageous order of Rick Perry. Whether the vaccine was helpful or not, it was wrong for Perry to issue the EXECUTIVE ORDER, instead of allowing the LEGISLATURE to make the laws. It was wrong because it was an example of corruption as he was doing it for Merck, who had donated money to him, and his previous Chief of Staff worked as a lobbyist for Merck. Eight other Republican law makers received donations of $5000.00 within days of the Executive Order. It was wrong because there were at least two immunizations made by two different drug companies, so Perry was playing favorites.  It was wrong because the government was interfering with a parent’s right to make a decision about what is best for their child. It was a governmental invasion of privacy by requiring girls who were sexually active to disclose that fact (the immunization is not recommended for girls who were already sexually active). It was wrong because it required only immunization for girls and it has been shown to be effective for boys.  Immunization for boys would protect them from contracting genital warts, and would protect any girls with whom they would have sex from both genital warts, and cervical cancer.  It was also an example of the hypocrisy of Rick Perry. Perry opposed national health care, but supported this single medical immunization at the expense of the tax payers to prevent a disease that might not ever be contracted by these girls. To say that he was looking out for the best interest of young girls by protecting them from being able to contract a disease that would only affect them later in life while children were presently dying of cancer, but were unable to receive the medical care they needed, was outrageous. We can only conclude that Michele Bachmann never had the benefit of a course in logic at Oral Roberts University, that they called people “retarded” at Oral Roberts, and that she must have had a side effect from the Merck immunization. The AAP has the wrong message…It’s not that Michelle Bachmann is a screwball and doesn’t know what she is talking about most of the time but that the vaccine is dangerous, is being sold by political corruption by political lackeys and shills on the take and ought to be withdrawn from the market place and sent back into retesting, revaluation, at the minimum and probably should be consigned to the dumpster along with Merck who would be ruined by an honest investigation of their practices and products. AAP Corrects Michele Bachmann On HPV Vaccine Safety September 13th, 2011 by Prescott Carlson | Permalink AAP tells Bachmann vaccine is safe The American Academy of Pediatrics has a message for Michele Bachmann: You’re wrong about the HPV vaccine. During the Republican presidential debate Monday evening, Bachmann hammered away at presidential nominee hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry over his executive order in 2007 making it mandatory that girls receive the vaccine against the human papilloma virus, considered one of the main causes of cervical cancer. The move was considered controversial by social conservatives, because HPV is sexually transmitted and it is argued by some that the administering of the vaccine will encourage young teens to be sexually active. Bachmann criticized Perry about the mandate during the debate, pointing out that Perry may have had financial incentive to pass the law due to his ties to Merck, the pharmaceutical manufacturer that was the only producer of the vaccine at the time. She brought up the HPV vaccine again Tuesday morning during an appearance on the Today show, but this time Bachmann indicated that the vaccine may also be unsafe. Bachmann claims that she was approached by a woman after the debate, who told her that the woman’s daughter had received the HPV vaccine and that “she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.” She added that the vaccine “can have very dangerous side effects” and that there is a “very real concern.” But the AAP refutes Bachmann’s assertions, saying in a statement that “there is absolutely no scientific validity to [the vaccine causing mental retardation]” and that the vaccine has “an excellent safety record” after over 35 million administered doses. Dr. O. Marion Burton, president of the AAP said, “The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Academy of Family Physicians all recommend that girls receive HPV vaccine around age 11 or 12. That’s because this is the age at which the vaccine produces the best immune response in the body, and because it’s important to protect girls well before the onset of sexual activity. In the U.S., about 6 million people, including teens, become infected with HPV each year, and 4,000 women die from cervical cancer.” He added, “This is a life-saving vaccine that can protect girls from cervical cancer.” SANE Vax Inc: Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Advocates Respond to AAP Open Letter to Dr. O. Marion Burton, president, American Academy of Pediatrics Re: Heart-broken moms offended by statements of AAP on Gardasil® September 16, 2011 Dear Dr. Burton: On behalf of the thousands of parents who have either lost their perfectly healthy teenage daughters, or been left to endure the physical/mental/emotional and financial hardship of being forced to deal with the permanent disabling effects of Gardasil® vaccination, SANE Vax Inc. is offended by the thoughtless, ignorant and offensive press release issued from the office of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on September 13, 2011. The press release criticizes the comment made by Republican presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann regarding Gardasil® side effects  as  ‘false statements’; and instead stated authoritatively ‘…it (Gardasil®) has an excellent safety record.’ Are you still practicing pediatrics? Physicians in the U.S. look to the AAP for guidelines yet the AAP seems to be oblivious to the latest Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. VAERS statistics clearly show that HPV Vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, have been associated with 22, 619 adverse reactions; 8,926 of those reports requiring emergency hospitalization; and 4,616 cases where the victim did not recover. Death reports stand at 102. According to the National Vaccine Information Center, these figures reflect 1 to 10% of the vaccine injured population reporting. The rate of anaphylaxis in young women post HPV vaccination has been found to be significantly higher by approximately – 5 to 20 fold – than those identified in comparable school-based vaccination programs. In fact, out of the 76 vaccines approved by the FDA the HPV vaccines make up 24% of the adverse injuries being reported. The AAP is responsible for the health and welfare of our children. The Academy’s ignorance of vaccine injuries is deplorable and unacceptable. Instead of showing compassion to victims and their families and making attempts to clarify or further investigate the possible causes for all these unexplained side effects, you simply dismissed them all by stating:  ‘There is absolutely no scientific validity to this statement.’ This letter is to inform you that SANE Vax, Inc. has recently informed the FDA that the Gardasil® vaccine currently on the market has been found to be contaminated with residual recombinant HPV DNA. This hitherto unknown contaminant may have provided a scientific basis for Gardasil-induced autoimmune-based inflammatory diseases in various tissues, including inflammation in the joints and central nervous system. If the AAP is interested in this subject, perhaps using it as part of the AAP’s continuous medical education (CME) materials in place of those distributed by Merck, please read the hyperlinked documents below. SANE Vax Inc. is wondering if Merck’s advertisements for Gardasil® in the AAP journals and cash contributions to sponsor various AAP CME programs that promote Gardasil® influenced the decision to issue the September 13 press release.  In addition, is it possible that the $433,000 contribution made by Merck to the AAP might have influenced your position? Interesting to note:  this was the same year the academy endorsed Merck’s HPV vaccine. Perhaps the AAP should consult with Governor Rick Perry about disclosure. Written by the SANE Vax Team on behalf of Gardasil® victims around the world, Norma Erickson, President Source: 1. How Independent are Vaccine Defenders? July 2008; Sharyl Attkisson CBS News References: SANE Vax to FDA: Recombinant HPV DNA found in multiple samples of Gardasil® SANE Vax Inc. Announces the discovery of viral HPV DNA contaminant in Gardasil® SANE Vax Inc. Discovers Potential Bio-Hazard Contaminant in Merck’s Gardasil® HPV4 Vaccine SANE Vax Inc. Reports Human Papillomavirus (HPV) DNA Contamination in Gardasil® HPV Vaccine Fact Sheet SANE Vax Inc. to Margaret Hamburg: Request the FDA Rescind Gardasil® Approval Gardasil HPV Vaccines Found Contaminated With Recombinant DNA That Persists In Human Blood (NaturalNews) In seeking answers to why adolescent girls are suffering devastating health damage after being injected with HPV vaccines, SANE Vax, Inc decided to have vials of Gardasil tested in a laboratory. There, they found over a dozen Gardasil vaccine vials to becontaminated with rDNA of the Human Papillomavirus(HPV). The vials were purchased in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Poland and France, indicating Gardasil contamination is a global phenomenon. This means that adolescents who are injected with these vials are being contaminated with a biohazard -- the rDNA of HPV. In conducting the tests, Dr. Sin Hang Lee found rDNA from both HPV-11 and HPV-18, which were described as "firmly attached to the aluminum adjuvant." That aluminum is also found in vaccines should be frightening all by itself, given that aluminum should never be injected into the human body (it's toxic when ingested, and it specifically damages the nervous system). With the added discovery that the aluminum adjuvant also carries rDNA fragments of two different strains of Human Papillomavirus, this now reaches the level of a dangerous biohazard-- something more like a biological weapon rather than anything resembling medicine. As SANE Vax explains in its announcement, these tests were conducted after an adolescent girl experienced "acute onset Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis within 24 hours" of being injected with an HPV vaccine. (http://sanevax.org/sane-vax-inc-dis...) rDNA found in Gardasil is genetically engineered The rDNA that was found to be contaminating Gardasil is not "natural" rDNA from the HPV virus itself. Rather, it is a genetically engineered form of HPV genetic code that is added to the vaccines during their manufacture. As Dr. Lee, the pathologist who ran the laboratory tests identifying the biohazard contamination of Gardasil said: "Natural HPV DNA does not remain in the bloodstream for very long. However, the HPV DNA in Gardasil is not 'natural' DNA. It is a recombinant HPV DNA (rDNA) -- genetically engineered -- to be inserted into yeast cells for VLP (virus-like-particle) protein production. rDNA is known to behave differently from natural DNA. It may enter a human cell, especially in an inflammatory lesion caused by the effects of the aluminum adjuvant, via poorly understood mechanisms. Once a segment of recombinant DNA is inserted into a human cell, the consequences are hard to predict. It may be in the cell temporarily or stay there forever, with or without causing a mutation. Now the host cell contains human DNA as well as genetically engineered viral DNA." Innocent girls being injected with genetically engineered HPV rDNA What all this means is that through Gardasil vaccines, innocent young girls are being injected with the recombinant DNA of HPV, and that this biohazardous substance persists in their blood. The implications of this are rather scary, as Dr. Lee explains: "Once a segment of recombinant DNA is inserted into a human cell, the consequences are hard to predict. It may be in the cell temporarily or stay there forever, with or without causing a mutation. Now the host cell contains human DNA as well as genetically engineered viral DNA." The vaccine industry, of course, has a long and dark history of its vaccines beingcontaminated with cancer-causing viruses and other frightening contaminants. Watch this astounding video of Merck scientist Dr. Hilleman openly admitting thatpolio vaccineswere widely contaminated withSV40 viruses that cause cancer: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=13EAA... It's called "Merck vaccine scientist admits presence of SV40 and AIDS in vaccines - Dr. Maurice Hilleman" and was partially narrated by Dr. Len Horowitz. You can view the full transcript of this extraordinary interview at: http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_D... If you thought vaccines were safe, think again. Get informed. Learn the truth, and please share this story so that others may also be informed. Listen up, folks: Why do you think the vaccine industry pushed so hard fort otal financial immunity under the government's vaccine injury compensation plan? Because they knew that if the truth ever got out about how many cases of cancer, autism and even death were truly caused by vaccines, they would be financially wiped out! Well We Know This Was Load Of Manure Below! MERCK BACKS OFF NATIONAL PUSH FOR MANDATORY HPV VACCINATIONS Thursday, February 22, 2007 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc. announced this week that it will no longer lobby state governments for mandatory vaccination of school-age girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) strains that cause cervical cancer. Previously, Merck had been lobbying legislators to require the administration of its three-stage vaccine Gardasil, which received FDA approval in June. Jump directly to:conventional view|alternative view|resources|bottom line What You Need To Know - Conventional View  Gardasil claims to protect against strains ofHPVbelieved to cause most cases of cervical cancer, an estimated 7,000 per year. It costs $360 for a series of three shots. Texas recently became the first state to require vaccination of school-age girls with Gardasil, but other states are debating similar requirements. Mandatory vaccination bills have passed in both the Virginia House and Senate, but the governor has not yet indicated if he will approve such a law. Merck spokespeople said the company will no longer lobby for such laws due to the controversy sparked by such behavior. Critics have charged that the company was motivated more by profit than byhealth concerns. Merck was shown to have financial ties to a former top official in Texas Governor Rick Perry's administration. Governor Perry issued an executive order to require mandatory vaccinations with Merck's product, bypassing the Texas state legislature. This connection was explored in a CounterThink cartoon fictionally depicting Texas Governor Perry accepting a bribe from Merck, created by Mike Adams.  The American Cancer Society and American Academy of Pediatrics have recommended that girls be vaccinated with Gardasil. They have declined to endorse mandatory vaccination, in part because of the newness of the drug. Both associations maintain strong financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. What You Need To Know - Alternative View Statements and opinions byMike Adams This decision by Merck to back off its lobbying efforts over the HPV vaccination represent a small victory for health freedom advocates. It shows the power of independent media and passionate individuals to overcome corruption and medical tyranny in the United States. Although Merck has announced it will stop publicly lobbying states to pass mandatory vaccine measures, it is my experience that drug companies continue to operate under the table, away from public view, to accomplish their profit goals. I do not believe Merck will abandon this profit opportunity, even though they may seek to create the public impression that they are walking away from it.  Our CounterThink cartoon on this topic was our most popular cartoon ever published, and has been widely circulated across the 'net. It exposed the financial corruption and exploitation of young girls by drug companies seeking profits. Click here to see the cartoon. Resources you need to know NaturalNews feature story:Medical tyranny in Texas turns teenage girls into HPV vaccination profit centers. more:http://www.naturalnews.com/021640_vaccinations_Merck.html#conventional#ixzz1Y7jxLiWL more:http://www.naturalnews.com/021640_vaccinations_Merck.html#ixzz1Y7jgBLI3 Texas Gov. Rick Perry Has Surged Into A Lead Over His GOP Rivals In The Key State Of Florida, According To A New Poll. http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/15/perry-takes-lead-in-florida-after-monday-debate/ The poll, conducted by Insider Advantage for the Florida Times-Union, shows Perry leading the field with 29 percent support. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney comes in second with 20 percent support. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a distant third with 9 percent. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has 8 percent support, businessman Herman Cain has 6 percent, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul has 5 percent. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum garners 2 percent support, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman rounds out the field with just over 1 percent. After entering the race in August, Perry has surged into the lead nationally and in several key states, including Iowa. The poll was conducted the day after the Republican candidates debated in Tampa, Fla. Perry came under heavy fire at the debate from his GOP rivals, who went after him over his comments about Social Security, illegal immigration and his effort to require that young girls in Texas be vaccinated against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus. However, the poll indicates that the criticism hasn't prevented the Texas governor from establishing himself as the front-runner in a state that could be crucial, if not decisive, in the GOP presidential race. Romney led Perry by seven points in a Mason-Dixon poll taken in the days after Perry announced his presidential bid last month. The Insider Advantage poll was conducted on Sept. 13 among 456 likely GOP primary voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent. Kyle Adams can be reached at kadams@realclearpolitics.com. http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/13/bachmann-goes-out-on-a-limb-with-hpv-vaccine-claims/ Michele Bachmann is receiving pushback for her claim following Monday night’s debate that Gardasil, the HPV vaccination Texas Gov. Rick Perry mandated for Texas girls through an executive order, causes mental retardation. “I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Fla., after the debate,” Bachmann said. “She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. The mother was crying what she came up to me last night. I didn’t know who she was before the debate. This is the very real concern and people have to draw their own conclusions.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), however, makes no mention of mental issues arising from use of Gardasil or another HPV vaccination called Cervarix. According to the CDC, of the 35 million doses distributed in the United States as of June 22, 2011 there have been 18,727 reports of adverse effects to Gardasil, the worst being the muscle weakening disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome, along with blood clots, and 68 reports of death…. (THIS IS ACCEPTABLE?) Politico reports that Evan Siegfried, a spokesman for the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership called Bachmann’s attempt to link mental retardation and Gardasil “irresponsible.” “There is zero credible scientific evidence that vaccines cause mental retardation or autism. [Bachmann] should cease trying to foment fear in order to advance her political agenda.” Bachmann also charged Perry with “crony capitalism,” alleging that his ties to Merck had shaded his decision to impose the vaccination and that he had overreached using his governing power. (RELATED: Rivals knock Perry over HPV vaccine order during debate) Perry responded to Bachmann’s charges Tuesday to NBC News and The Miami Herald. “You heard the same arguments about giving our children protections from some of the childhood diseases, and they were… autism was part of that. Now we’ve subsequently found out that was generated and not true,” Perry said, adding, “I would suggest to you that this issue about Gardasil and making it available was about saving people’s lives.”  These folks are “Nucking Futs Stupid” or think we are! Follow Caroline on Twitter Republican Presidential Debate Raises Vaccination Choice as an Issue Posted on September 13, 2011 by The Refusers MB Comment: Gardasil Rick Perry’s pandering to Merck’s vaccine marketing machine while he was Governor of Texas is coming back to haunt him. Republican presidential candidates are using it to attack Perry’s honesty. A positive consequence of this controversy is that vaccination mandates and consent are now a public issue. This may help to counter CDC propaganda in the minds of those who never questioned vaccinations before. Merck’s surreptitious bribes to get its vaccines mandated are also now exposed for all to see. As the following article reveals, Merck donated $29,500 to Gardasil Rick, six times more than he admitted in the debates. This discrepancy is likely to surface in the next debate. Merck’s donations could turn out to be as toxic as its Gardasil vaccine. Donor           City               State    ZIP         Date       Amount Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004    10/18/04   $10,000 Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004     9/18/02    $5,000 Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004    10/16/06   $5,000 Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004    10/29/10   $5,000 Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004    10/14/08   $2,500 Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004    11/2/00     $1,000 Merck PAC    Washington    DC    20004    12/30/05    $1,000 Total 7 donations $29,500 ************************************************************************************************** Perry understates Merck’s campaign donations around HPV vaccine order – The Washington Independent Bachmann called out Perry’s financial ties to Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the vaccine, Gardasil — a group, she said, that stood to gain from the order. Bachmann insinuated the governor’s decision may have been swayed by the company’s donations to his campaign. “We cannot forget that in the midst of this executive order, there was a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate. We can’t deny that,” said Bachmann. “What are you suggesting?” pressed moderator Wolf Blizter. “What I’m saying is that it’s wrong for a drug company, because the governor’s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company. The drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor, and this is just flat-out wrong. The question is, is it about life, or was it about millions of dollars and potentially billions for a drug company?” The Minnesota Congresswoman was referring to Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of staff, who served as one of Merck’s three lobbyists in Texas. Bachmann did not point out other efforts to push Gardasil in Texas and those connections to Perry. For instance, at the time Merck doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and gave more cash through the group Women in Government, a national group of female state legislators. The mother-in-law of Perry’s chief of staff (at the time) served as the state director for the advocacy organization, the Associated Press reported. Additionally, a high ranking official from the company’s vaccine division sat on the group’s business council. Today, Toomey heads a pro-Perry super PAC called Make Us Great Again. Perry responded to Bachmann’s by saying he received $5,000 in campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical company — a figure that couldn’t have influenced his decision-making, in when he raised $30 million for his campaign. “If you’re saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I’m offended,” said Perry. Bachmann replied, “Well, I’m offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn’t have a choice. That’s what I’m offended for.” But that $5,000 figure isn’t the whole picture. While Perry was indeed the recipient of that amount during his 2006 gubernatorial reelection bid, on the same day Perry’s staff met for a briefing on the vaccine, Merck PAC has donated nearly $30,000 to the Perry campaign since 2000, according to Texas Ethics Commission reports. The largest sum from Merck came in October 2004, when the major pharmaceutical group donated $10,000 to Perry’s coffers. The company has given $7,500 to the governor’s campaign since Perry’s ill-fated executive order. Read the Article During Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party GOP debate, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order requiring middle school girls to be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus (HPV), the most frequent sexually transmitted disease and a leading cause of cervical cancer. Bachmann called out Perry’s financial ties to Merck & Co., the manufacturer of the vaccine, Gardasil — a group, she said, that stood to gain from the order. Bachmann insinuated the governor’s decision may have been swayed by the company’s donations to his campaign. “We cannot forget that in the midst of this executive order, there was a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate. We can’t deny that,” said Bachmann. “What are you suggesting?” pressed moderator Wolf Blizter. “What I’m saying is that it’s wrong for a drug company, because the governor’s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company. The drug company gave thousands of dollars in political donations to the governor, and this is just flat-out wrong. The question is, is it about life, or was it about millions of dollars and potentially billions for a drug company?” The Minnesota Congresswoman was referring to Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of staff, who served as one of Merck’s three lobbyists in Texas. Bachmann did not point out other efforts to push Gardasil in Texas and those connections to Perry. For instance, at the time Merck doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and gave more cash through the group Women in Government, a national group of female state legislators. The mother-in-law of Perry’s chief of staff (at the time) served as the state director for the advocacy organization, the Associated Press reported. Additionally, a high ranking official from the company’s vaccine division sat on the group’s business council. Today, Toomey heads a pro-Perry super PAC called Make Us Great Again. Perry responded to Bachmann’s by saying he received $5,000 in campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical company — a figure that couldn’t have influenced his decision-making, in when he raised $30 million for his campaign. “If you’re saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I’m offended,” said Perry. Bachmann replied, “Well, I’m offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn’t have a choice. That’s what I’m offended for.” But that $5,000 figure isn’t the whole picture. While Perry was indeed the recipient of that amount during his 2006 gubernatorial reelection bid, on the same day Perry’s staff met for a briefing on the vaccine, Merck PAC has donated nearly $30,000 to the Perry campaign since 2000, according to Texas Ethics Commission reports. The largest sum from Merck came in October 2004, when the major pharmaceutical group donated $10,000 to Perry’s coffers. The company has given $7,500 to the governor’s campaign since Perry’s ill-fated executive order. The HPV vaccine order has drawn considerable attention and criticism from social conservative and Tea Party circles, where it’s railed against as an infringement on individual rights by the government, and even an encouragement for young girls to have promiscuous sex. Perry maintains the order, eventually overturned by the Legislature, was not a mandate and had an opt-out portion for parents. Since announcing his presidency, Perry has called the order a “mistake,” and said he should have consulted with the Texas Legislature instead ___________________________ http://www.wanttoknow.info/health/funvax_fundamentalist_vaccine FunVax: Fundamentalist Vaccine Pentagon Video, Document Reveal Aerial Vaccination Plan http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=funVax "In non-conflict zones, effectiveness [of the fundamentalist vaccine] could be measured by a decrease in the people attending religious activities."    -- Quarterly Report on the Pentagon's FunVax (Fundamentalist Vaccine), 6/1/07 Dear friends, The Pentagon may vaccinate large populations in the Middle East with what is being called FunVax – a fundamentalist vaccine. As explained by Pentagon researchers, the FunVax uses an airborne virus to indiscriminately infect populations considered high risk for religious fundamentalism. The virus in this vaccine purportedly has been tested and shown to reduce fundamentalism and religiosity in all who are infected by damaging what is called the "God gene." Though this may sound like some bizarre science fiction novel, the four-minute Pentagon video presentation and official FunVax report below show that this vaccine against fundamentalism is actively being tested for implementation. As it has been a few years since this date of this video and report, it is entirely possible this program has already been started. Four-minute Pentagon video presentation of FunVax dated April 13, 2005 http://www.personalgrowthcourses.net/video/health/pengtagon_vaccine_modify_behavior Government report on the fundamentalist vaccine: Quarterly FunVax Review, June 1, 2007 http://www.wanttoknow.info/health/funvax070601.pdf There is some possibility that the above video and document are faked. But if they are, it is very intelligent disinformation. Who would spend all of the time and money required to come up with such a sophisticated and coherent story? And why? Knowing how science and the military often work together, a program like this is all too possible. I once attended a lecture by Al Gore's science advisor in which he said he had been invited to see some of the most secret biological research programs being undertaken by the U.S. military. He said it gave him nightmares for months. For those who doubt the government would carry out such a campaign, consider a July 12, 2011New York Times report that the CIA organized a fake vaccine drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA. It appears that health care workers were used knowing or unknowingly on a clandestine mission as part of a deliberate policy of the U.S. government. An article in the Washington Postquotes a senior U.S. official as stating, “The vaccination campaign was part of the hunt for the world’s top terrorist, and nothing else." According to the FunVax report above, the fundamentalist vaccine is prepared using "a viral vector that will inhibit/decrease the expression of VMAT2 within a human population. The VMAT2 gene, also referred to as the "God gene," has received wide coverage in the media. It is the gene which has been shown to have the most relationship to spirituality. Time magazine featured the God gene story on it's front cover on Oct. 25, 2004. For the fascinating article on VMAT2 in that issue of Time, titled, "Religion: Is God in Our Genes?", click here. So the Pentagon has found a way to decrease religious fervor using an airborne vaccine. What are the ethical implications of this? Do we really want to get involved in manipulating people's genes, especially when those subjected to this are not being informed? Do we really want to decrease spirituality in unknowing citizens through a vaccine? And why isn't this disturbing news being reported and debated in the major media? The Pentagon report states that tests have been conducted on six different methods of dispersing the virus: "high altitude release, water supply release, insect transmission, diffusion by a ground level object such as a car, diffusion from a stationary object such as a bottle and infection of food supply such as cattle or produce." You have to wonder where these tests were conducted and on whom. The minutes of the report also mention discussion of a "proposal for a suicide gene." Here's a quote from the FunVax report's recommendations section: Of the 600 variants of Vesicular Stomatitiis Virus tested, VSV287 had the greatest decrease of VMAT2 within mice. However, this may not be the case for human subjects. All 600 strains of VSV should be retested on human subjects in the clinical group. Once again, we have to ask who these human subjects will be. Will they be informed of what is happening and give their consent? Would anyone in their right mind give consent to have one of their key genes altered? We know in the past that low-ranking soldiers were used for tests like this and recruited with special bonuses, but not told about the real objectives of the test. For a long list of secret government tests in which soldiers, prisoners, and even the general public were unknowingly treated like human guinea pigs, click here (links provided to verify each case). Of the behavioral indicators which would determine effectiveness of the vaccine mentioned in the report, one states, "In non-conflict zones, effectiveness could be measured by a decrease in the people attending religious activities." A second indicator mentions "measurable increase in ... telephone, email, and other forms of communication that express discontent with religion or God. The FunVax report concludes that "high atmospheric dispersal or dispersal by ground level moving objects appear to be the most practical. Once initial dispersal is accomplished, infection will be transmitted person to person." Atmospheric dispersal would likely use what has been referred to as chemtrails. Many have claimed chemtrails are simply paranoid fantasies of conspiracy theorists. This document and other easily verifiable information on chemtrails available at this link prove that jets have been used to spread substances on the unsuspecting general population numerous times. A final concluding note in the FunVax report states that "complete knockout of VMAT2 in mice as well as monkeys has shown to be lethal." So the God gene is apparently necessary for life. Yet the Pentagon is planning to use this vital gene to manipulate people's beliefs. Why isn't the media investigating this major story? Please help to make up for the sad failure of the media and spread this news to your friends and colleagues far and wide. Together, we can make a difference. With best wishes for a better world, Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton THE FDA CONTACT THE FDA http://lecafpolitiquedecamusdecaf.blogspot.com/2011/09/contact-fda-recombinant-hpv-dna-found.html A Parent's Horrid Nightmare: Coming Soon to YOUR State? The state of California has just passed bill AB499, which will permit minor children as young as 12 years old to be vaccinated with sexually transmitted disease vaccines like Gardasil without parental knowledge or parental consent. This means that if you  live in California, school or medical personnel would be allowed to vaccinate your child against an STD without your ever knowing it. At issue, of course, is whether 12-year-olds are mature enough to fully analyze the benefits versus risks of vaccination (or any medical treatment for that matter), or recognize the alternatives to STD prevention, such as abstinence. Meanwhile, a child could suffer a vaccine reaction and the parent, not knowing the child had been vaccinated, could mistake it for the flu or another condition, delaying getting help until it is too late. But, perhaps the greatest issue of all is whether this law violates your basic right to be involved in important decisions regarding your child's health. How Can Parental Consent be Completely Ignored? As Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has stated, informed consent is a human right. "The right to voluntary, informed consent to a medical intervention, including use of a pharmaceutical product such as a vaccine that can injure or kill you or your child, is a human right. While the State may have the legal authority to mandate use of vaccines, nobody has the moral authority to FORCE you to get vaccinated or vaccinate your child without your voluntary, informed consent," she says. We as parents, who know and love our children better than anyone else, we, by U.S. law and a larger moral imperative, are the guardians of our children until they are old enough to make life and death decisions for themselves. We are responsible for their welfare and we are the ones who bear the grief and the burden when they are injured or die from any cause. We are their voice and by all that is right in this great country and in the moral universe, we should be allowed to make a rational, informed, voluntary decision about which diseases and which vaccines we are willing to risk their lives for -- without fearing retribution from physicians employed by the state." Not only does AB499 remove a parent's right to give their informed consent, but parents will not even have the right to be informed if their child is vaccinated. As Age of Autism recently reported, this could be disastrous for the child's well-being for a number of reasons: ·         “A child will most likely not know his or her family history of allergies, autoimmune diseases, or adverse reactions to other vaccines or medications, all of which are essential to consider before the administration of any vaccine. ·         A child is not capable of weighing the risks and benefits of vaccination, and under this bill, a parent will not be present to ask the appropriate questions to elicit this important risk/benefit information. ·         A child can be easily swayed by a person of authority, his or her peers, and by misinformation ·         ... Who will determine if the child falls within the category of those who should not be vaccinated on the label (especially in the absence of the child's medical records and the child's parent)?” Informed consent is especially important when it comes to vaccination, because there is no way for you or your physician to predict if your child will be one of the children who has a devastating vaccine reaction, such as brain inflammation, immune dysregulation, or even death. AB499 More About Profits than Health Pharmaceutical and medical lobbyists were heavily involved in pushing AB499 through the state legislature. After all, by stripping parents of their right to make informed decisions about medical procedures that could harm their children, they have tapped a new market for their Gardasil vaccine. And, at a cost of $108 per dose to the government, Merck, the vaccine's manufacturer, stands to profit handsomely. Meanwhile, California taxpayers will likely foot the bill for the multi-millions of dollars this law will cost to implement. Parents are NOT responsible for the costs (how could they be if they're not even informed that a vaccine was given?), so the bulk will come from the government (i.e. the taxpayers). As Fisher states: "This proposed law would cost the cash-strapped state of California multi-millions of dollars to implement. Most of that money will go to Merck and other vaccine corporations to pay for multiple doses of each vaccine that will be aggressively promoted to young children, who are not yet physically, mentally or emotionally mature enough to make fully informed decisions about risk-taking, including whether or not to take a medical risk." Further, has anyone considered who will be held responsible if a child is permanently injured or killed from receiving a vaccination without their parents' consent? Neither physicians nor drug companies have any legal liability, so the parents will ultimately be the ones who will have to carry the financial burden if their child suffers damage from the vaccine. If You Live in California, Talk to Your Child About Gardasil Risks! You have the legal right to know the risks and complications of vaccines BEFORE you make the choice of whether or not to allow your child to be vaccinated. If you live in California, this right may soon be taken away, unless you ACT NOW to stop the Governor from signing it into law. Still, it would be prudent to discuss this issue with your child now, before they are given the opportunity to receive this vaccine, so they will be able to make an educated decision when and if the time comes. In the four short years since Gardasil came on the market, there have been more than 21,000 reported incidents of adverse effects and death, despite the fact that only two out of every 10 women in the approved age group have gotten the vaccine so far. Add to this the fact that an estimated 90 to 99 percent of all adverse effects are never reported, and the abnormally large risks of the HPV vaccine compared to other vaccines should give most people reason to pause. Further, you and your child should know that: ·         Gardasil is NOT a cancer vaccine. It is simply a vaccine for two strains of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that in some instances can lead to cancer in some women (Gardasil's other two HPV strains are for genital warts, which don't cause cancer). There is absolutely no proof and no clinical trials that show Gardasil protects against cancer in the long-term. ·         Since there are at least 15 HPV strains that can lead to cancer, Gardasil-vaccinated girls can still get cervical cancer from the other 13 HPV strains not contained in the vaccine. ·         The vaccine doesn't work if you've already been infected with the HPV strains in the vaccine. In the United States, infection with HPV is very common, and it is estimated that about 20 million Americans have an HPV infection at any given time. In fact, HPV is so common that most sexually active people will get it at some time in their lives. The important thing to know about HPV is that in almost all cases, it clears up on its own without any adverse health effects within two years in most healthy people. So not only is the HPV vaccine one of the most unnecessary vaccines on the market, it is also the most dangerous! If AB499 is not vetoed, it's important, if you live in California, to arm your children with these facts in advance. Urgent Action Alert for ALL Parents If California parents can be stripped of their legal right to make informed medical decisions for their minor children, so too can parents in any state. I encourage you to get involved with the work that NVIC is doing to protect your right to choose which vaccines you want your children to get, including the legal right to use all, some, or no vaccines at all. Register for the free NVIC Advocacy Portal that educates you about how to communicate effectively with your elected state representatives and protect vaccine exemptions in your state. Stay informed about what is happening in your state and make your voice heard. Go to www.NVICAdvocacy.org and register today to take action. For those of you who live in California, it is imperative that you take part in NVIC's urgent action alert. If Governor Brown does not veto AB499, vaccine exemptions for sexually transmitted disease vaccines become NULL and VOID in California. Please take just 5 minutes to help support this cause by: ·         Forwarding NVIC’s Urgent Action Alert to everyone you know ·         Posting the link to this alert on Facebook, blogs, or other social media sites: http://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Resources/VetoAB499.aspx ·         Contact Governor Jerry Brown and ask him to VETO AB499. The most effective way is to call the Governor’s office. They’ve already added a simple voicemail button for a "yes" or "no" vote on the legislation. o    Call: (916) 445-2841 o    Fax: (916) 558-3160 o    Email Web Form: http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php ·         Register for the NVIC Advocacy Portal so you can receive updates The more people who get involved, the better chance there is that California will get the message that parents will not lie down while their parental rights are removed. Together we can make a difference and keep this legislation from standing, and influencing the right to informed consent in the rest of the United States as well. Our entire country needs to come together and send the state government of California the strong message: Keep your hands off our kids! Don't Give This to Your Daughter - Despite What Your Doctor Says It's been four years since Gardasil debuted as a blockbuster vaccine with sales that rocketed to over $1.1 billion in its first nine months. Touted as a wonder vaccine that would end cervical cancer, it was supposed to be the savior of both mankind and Merck's Vioxx-damaged bottom line. But now, according to CNN Money, it's a dud. It just posted $219 million in sales. But in the pharma world, that's a paltry pittance, nothing short of an in-flight explosion that's caused Merck stock to drop 3 percent, with analysts and investors scrambling to figure out what went wrong. So what happened? How did a vaccine that was supposed to be Merck's beacon for higher profits in the 21stCentury go from flagship to flop? The Science Speaks for Itself CNN Money calls Gardasil's crash a "design flaw" and faults the economy, puritanical parents, bad press, and Merck itself for contributing to the fallout. The article ends with the hypothesis: "Or, maybe people just aren't ready for a cancer vaccine when it's for a sexually transmitted disease." I think they're way off the mark. The real reason Gardasil is a flop is that people have become educated about this vaccine. They've looked at the science and weighed the risks vs. the supposed benefits, and have made a choice not to get it for themselves or their children. The word is out: despite what the CDC would have you believe, Gardasil's safety record is in serious question. As of September 28, 2010, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has more than 18,000 Gardasil-related adverse events listed in it, including at least 65 deaths. As a vaccine used in the developed world, the science speaks for itself: Gardasil can't – and never will -- replace Pap smears, which are the reason that the incidence of cervical cancer is so low in the United States after decades of including pap smears in routine medical care for women. Today, cervical cancer is not even in the top 10 cancers that kill American women every year. As a vaccine for children, it doesn't make sense to vaccinate to try to prevent an infection that is cleared from your body without any negative effects within two years in most healthy persons, and is not transmitted in a school setting like other airborne diseases that are easily transmitted in crowded conditions. Gardasil is designed to prevent only two of at least 15 strains of HPV that can lead to cervical cancer in those who do not clear the virus from their body within two years and become chronically infected. There is also some evidence that Gardasil-induced immunity may wane after about five years. Pre-licensure clinical trials did not follow young girls or women for decades to find out if the vaccine does, in fact, prevent cervical cancer. What went wrong with Gardasil is that this may be a vaccine that set many more health care consumers on a course of self-education that helped them make an informed decision about whether or not to take it – and there are several good reasons why many are deciding NOT to take it. Science vs. Politics First, the science: Peer-reviewed journal articles widely available on the Internet show that Gardasil is not what it was made out to be in the "one-less" TV commercials that jumped into people's living rooms a few years ago. Consumers now know that: Gardasil is NOT a cancer vaccine. It is simply a vaccine for two strains of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) that in some instances can lead to cancer in some women (Gardasil's other two HPV strains are for genital warts, which don't cause cancer). Since there are at least 15 HPV strains that can lead to cancer, Gardasil-vaccinated girls can still get cervical cancer from other 13 HPV strains not contained in the vaccine. The vaccine doesn't work if you've already been infected with the HPV strains in the vaccine. But the politics of this information is that you won't hear it or read it in the mainstream press. Instead, what you get is a repetition of the politically charged mantra that parents don't want their young daughters or sons to get a vaccine associated with sexual behaviors, and complaints about the vaccine's high cost. However, the real truth is that Gardasil's downfall has nothing to do with sex or money. The Truth about HPV and Cancer It is important to distinguish between HPV and cancer: Just because you currently have HPV, or may have had the infection in the past, does NOT mean you have cancer or will get cancer. HPV is NOT cancer. It is a viral infection that can lead to cancer in some people if the virus does not naturally clear from your body, as it does for most people within two years. Some high risk factors for developing chronic HPV infection are: Smoking Co-infection with herpes, Chlamydia or HIV Long term birth control use Multiple births In the US, infection with HPV is very common, and it is estimated that about 20 million Americans have an HPV infection at any given time. In fact, HPV is so common that most sexually active people will get it at some time in their lives. The important thing to know about HPV is that in almost all cases, it clears up on its own without any adverse health effects within two years in most healthy people. Genital HPV infection that is persistent, and more likely to lead to cancer, is most common in men and women who have had multiple sex partners. According to the CDC, other contributing risk factors to HPV infection that leads to cervical cancer includes smoking, having herpes, Chlamydia or HIV (the virus associated with AIDS), or another health problem that makes it hard for your body to deal with infections. Using birth control pills for a long time (five or more years) or having given birth to three or more children is also a risk factor. Also, certain populations in the US are more prone to getting cervical cancer. According to CervicalCancerCampaign.org: "Cervical cancer occurs most often in certain groups of women in the United States including African-American women, Hispanic women, white (non-Hispanic) women living in rural New York State and northern New England, American Indian women, and Vietnamese-American women. Hispanic women have twice the rate of cervical cancer compared to non-Hispanic white women. African-American women develop this cancer about 50 percent more than non-Hispanic white women". These disparities are due, in part, from poor access to health care. The women who are most at risk for the disease are women who do not have regular check-ups that include pap tests. Official reports from the CDC and WHO estimate that between 11,000 and 12,000 women in the US are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, and 3,800 to 4,100 die from it. About half of these women had never had a pap smear before they discovered they had cervical cancer. The majority of the others had not had a pap smear within the previous five years. According to the CDC's report on HPV to Congress in 2004: "Cervical cancer is an uncommon consequence of HPV infection in women, especially if they are screened for cancer regularly with pap tests and have appropriate follow-up of abnormalities. The purpose of screening with the pap test is to detect cervical abnormalities that can be treated, thereby preventing progression to invasive cervical cancer, and also to detect invasive cervical cancer at a very early stage. If detected early and managed promptly, survival rates for cervical cancer are over 90 percent." A study published in 2000 in the Archives of Family Medicine also showed that in the US, women who are elderly, unmarried, and uninsured are more likely to be diagnosed at a late stage of cervical cancer. The Truth About Gardasil According to a 2006 report to the international group Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Gardasil and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline's two-strain HPV vaccine) are only effective in young women and men (boys are now approved to receive HPV vaccine) who have never been infected with HPV. According to Merck's package insert on Gardasil, the end-point in its clinical trials for the vaccine's efficacy, or effectiveness, was NOT cancer, but instead was the presence, or non-presence, of vaccine-relevant pre-cancerous lesions (CIN 2/3). There is absolutely no proof, and no clinical trials that show Gardasil protects against cancer in the long-term. In fact, in clinical trials, Gardasil's protection against cell dysplasia leveled off at four years, and clinical trial participants were given afourth dose to boost the number of antibodies measured in the blood (immunogenicity) of those who got the vaccine. This is the efficacy being reported by Merck, even though the vaccine series is marketed as three shots, not four. And, according to Dr. Diane Harper, a lead researcher for Gardasil, its efficacy against genital warts is only two years. Additionally, according to the manufacturer's package insert: Gardasil does not eliminate the necessity for pap screening It does not treat active infections, lesions or cancers And it may not result in protection for all vaccinees An outstanding question is whether the mass use of Gardasil (and Cervarix) by all girls and boys will put pressure on  other HPV strains not contained in the vaccines to become more dominant and perhaps more virulent in causing cervical cancer. The "replacement" effect has happened with other infectious organisms that have developed resistance to vaccines used on a mass basis, such as pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcal vaccines. The Truth about Gardasil's Clinical Trials Only 27 percent of girls who have received the Gardasil vaccine have gotten all three shots in the vaccine's series. Merck blames it on forgetfulness, and has launched a "reminder" program that contacts vaccinees, and urges them to complete the series. CNN Money suggests that it has to do with the vaccine's high cost – just under $400 for a three-shot series, although some private doctors charge up to $875 for a three-shot series. But neither has considered the third possibility – that the reported reactions  girls are suffering after getting one or two shots of Gardasil are so severe that they decide not to go back for more. In any drug trial, whether it's for a vaccine or not, safety should be the top priority – and Gardasil's safety should have been thoroughly investigated before it was licensed and put on the market and recommended by public health doctors for ALL young girls to use. But Merck used bad methodology in its pre-licensure safety studies that did NOT contain a true placebo. In reporting systemic adverse reactions to the vaccine, instead of using a true placebo that is not reactive on its own, Merck used a vaccine component (aluminum) in what they called the "placebo." Aluminum can cause inflammation in the body and can make your blood brain barrier more permeable, allowing toxins to pass into your brain and cause damage. It is definitely not appropriate to use an aluminum-containing "placebo" to measure the reactivity of an experimental vaccine like Gardasil that will be given to children. Researchers did use a saline placebo in one clinical trial, but only reported it in reference to injection site reactions. In those comparisons, the saline placebo had significantly fewer reactions than either the vaccine or the aluminum-containing placebo. When it came to reporting the actual adverse, systemic events with the vaccine, Merck combined the aluminum and saline placebos, thus making the "placebo" results nearly the same as the vaccine's – and impossible to objectively judge true safety comparisons. This encouraged the perception that the vaccine is "safe" because the adverse events associated with it were nearly the same as the aluminum containing " placebo." Another important outcome of the clinical trials that was not properly investigated before licensure was the potential association between the deaths that occurred in the clinical trials and the Gardasil vaccine. A number of the girls who died during the trials were killed in car crashes. Yet, Merck did not report whether the girls were the drivers or passengers at the time of the accidents. This could be critical information in determining the vaccine's true safety, since one of the most common post-marketing adverse events is syncope (sudden fainting) as well as dizziness, seizures, and neurological events that could have contributed to a car accident if the person had just received a Gardasil shot and was driving at the time of the accident. The Truth about Gardasil and its Thousands of Injuries and Deaths The federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has been in place since 1986, but many experts believe that only 1 to 10 percent of all serious health problems that occur after vaccination, including hospitalizations, injuries and deaths, ever make it into the VAERS database. Most doctors and other vaccine providers do not report vaccine-related adverse events to VAERS even though it is a requirement under federal law since 1986 with the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Gardasil was a "fast tracked" vaccine and with so little active reporting of Gardasil-related health problems to VAERS, this means that Gardasil should be on the red-alert list for agencies like the CDC, the FDA, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Yet these three federal health agencies and medical organizations urging doctors to give Gardasil to children and young women have joined Merck in insisting that Gardasil is safe, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Gardasil victims and their parents have been posting their heart breaking stories on websites. These  tragic entries posted by Gardasil casualties is stark testify to the fact that something isn't right with this vaccine – and what isn't right is that the list of Gardasil victims just keeps growing. The unfortunate fact is Merck only studied the vaccine in fewer than 1200 girls under age 16, and most of the serious health problems and deaths in the pre-licensure clinical trials were written off as a "coincidence." And now, since those adverse reactions aren't listed as possible warning signs that the vaccine can cause harm, health officials are still ignoring them, even while girls die and others suffer ongoing, and often permanent, injuries and disabilities from it. For example, a rough comparison of Gardasil and Menactra (a vaccine against meningitis) adverse event reports to VAERS through November 30, 2008 revealed that: Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least twice as many emergency room visit reports; 4 times more death reports; 5 times more "did not recover" reports; and 7 times more "disabled" reports. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with all of the reports of blood clots. All 23 reports of blood clots following Gardasil occurred when Gardasil was given alone without any other vaccines. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 4 times as many cardiac arrest reports. All 9 reports of cardiac arrest following Gardasil occurred when Gardasil was given alone without any other vaccines. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 6 times as many fainting reports and at least 3 times as many syncope reports. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 4 times as many lupus reports. 27 reports of lupus following Gardasil occurred when Gardasil was given alone. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 15 times as many stroke reports. 16 reports of stroke following Gardasil occurred when Gardasil was given alone. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 3 times as many syncope reports. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 33 times as many thrombosis reports. 34 reports of thrombosis following Gardasil occurred when Gardasil was given alone. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 5 times as many sasculitis reports. 11 reports of vasculitis following Gardasil occurred when Gardasiil was given alone. Compared to Menactra, receipt of Gardasil is associated with at least 30 times as many rechallenge reports, which involve a worsening of symptoms experienced after previous receipt of Gardasil. What's disturbing about this is that these reports in all likelihood are just the tip of the iceberg because most physicians are making their reports to Merck, rather than to VAERS, and Merck is forwarding such poor quality information to VAERS that the CDC and FDA can't follow up on the majority of reports that Merck makes. As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association in August 2009, Merck made 68 percent of the reports to VAERS and 89 percent of them had information that was too insufficient to review! Is This a Vaccine that You Would Want? An editorial in the August 19, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) commented specifically on the risks and benefits of vaccinating with Gardasil, Merck's marketing of it, and the safety issues that are so obvious with this drug: "When weighing evidence about risks and benefits, it is also appropriate to ask who takes the risk, and who gets the benefit,"the JAMA author said. "Patients and the public logically expect that only medical and scientific evidence is put on the balance. If other matters weigh in, such as profit for a company or financial or professional gains for physicians or groups of physicians, the balance is easily skewed. "The balance will also tilt if the adverse events are not calculated correctly." The commentary is so poignant that it's a wonder that the mainstream media still hasn't' picked up on the impact of what this author is trying to say – that maybe, just maybe, people shouldn't be so quick to jump on the Gardasil bandwagon. The JAMA commentary goes on to say that one of the core questions of all medical decisions should be: When is the available information about harmful adverse effects sufficient to conclude that the risks outweigh the potential benefits? It's apparent that that question is in the minds of anyone who has really taken the time to study this vaccine. What happened to Gardasil is that consumers looked at the science and lots of them made a choice to not use this vaccine. And that, CNN Money, is why Gardasil is a flop. What You Can Do to Make a Difference Don't sit this one out! We need to take action NOW. Tell your friends and your family. Tell everyone. With a little bit of effort, we can make big strides toward preserving our freedom to make voluntary health decisions affecting our future, especially our children's future. One of the top goals for NVIC is preserving your freedom of choice about when to use vaccines. This non-profit charity has been fighting for your right to make informed VOLUNTARY vaccine choices since 1982. Mercola.com and NVIC are dedicating Nov. 1-6, 2010 Vaccine Awareness Week in a joint effort to raise public awareness about important vaccine issues. Vaccine Awareness Week will feature a series of articles and interviews on vaccine topics of interest toMercola.com newsletter subscribers and NVIC Vacine E-newsletter readers. During this Vaccine Awareness Week, NVIC is also launching the online NVIC Advocacy Portal that will give you the tools you need to take action to protect legal medical, religious and conscientious belief exemptions to vaccination in YOUR state. Please register for the NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org TODAY! And while you are at it, please make a donation to NVIC so they can continue fighting on behalf of all Americans to make sure we don't lose our informed consent rights when it comes to vaccination. Your Donations to the NVIC help fund efforts that raise vaccine awareness, including the following excellent vaccine resources: State Vaccine Requirements Influenza Mini Guide Ebook Special Report: Influenza Vaccine Mandates Ineffective & Unwise Are You Over Vaccinating Your Child? Vaccine Ingredients Calculator How to Legally Avoid Immunizations For information about legally avoiding immunizations in Canada, please see the Canadian Vaccination Liberation website www.vaclib.org.  Stay tuned to this newsletter for more updates, or follow the National Vaccine Information Center on Facebook. Together we CAN make a difference!