Did HPV Vaccine Cause 12-Yr-olds Paralysis?
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Christina Bell says she had seen ads for a vaccine called Gardasil.
The "One Less.." campaign by drugmaker Merck has been very effective and aggressively placed to reach all adolecent girls and their families encouraging them to be injected against Human Papillomavirus or HPV with Gardasil, the drug approved by the FDA in June 2006.
So after consulting with her doctor, her 12-year-old, Brittany was injected with Gardasil. Two weeks later the girl collapsed.
Her mother says Brittany used to play softball and run cross country.
Now she can't feel her legs.
What Bell didn't know was the Gardasil has been linked to thousands of adverse reports. Just last month a non- profit group, Judicial Watch, sued the FDA saying it has withheld thousands of adverse reports and even 11 deaths.
No one can really say if the drug is effective over time. It is supposed to be given before girls are sexually active. What if that doesn't happen for five or 10 years. Does Gardasil still work? No one knows.
Then there is the moral question- does giving Gardasil send the wrong message to our young girls that they can be promiscuous without consequences? Gardasil doesn't protect against HIV.
Lastly, a study found that using condoms is more effective than Gardasil in preventing HPV. Are parents about to discuss condom use with their 12-year-olds, or is an injection just easier?
Christina Bell didn't hear these arguments. Now she is suing Merck. One more kicker-Merck put Gardasil on the National Vaccine Injury Comnpensation Fund about six months after it hit the market.
That is like a government insurance plan that allows us taxpayers to pay the cost of any adverse events resulting from a vaccine. What did Merck know then that its "One Less" ads don't tell us now?
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