HPV Vaccine Safety Questioned

Several news stories are questioning the safety of the new HPV vaccines under the names of Gardasil and Cervarix. One article on August 08, 2008 from Therapeutics Daily, starts with the headline. "20 deaths in U.S. spark fears over safety of vaccine". This article reports on a grass roots movement in Ireland to lobby the Irish Health Minister to change the position on the HPV vaccine.

The story noted that the "U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that concerns had been raised after the cases of the 20 girls who had received Gardasil and who had later died were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System."

Another article on OneNewsNow.com, on July, 15, 2008 reported that Gardasil has been named in 78,000 complaints to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because of side effects. In that article Wendy Wright head of the group, Concerned Women for America (CWFA), commented, "We all know any drug, any vaccine can cause complications -- and before you require that an entire general population receive it, people should at least be aware of what kinds of complications could come from it."

In referring to the 20 deaths in the US of young women after getting the vaccine, Ms. Wright added, "There needs to be research to see if there is a connection, but with that number of complaints and with so many of them being serious complaints, this ought to give pause to any legislator before he even considers mandating that every little girl get a shot of this vaccine."

One tragic story was reported on July 21st, 2008 on NEWSInferno.com. In that story Katherine, a 20-year-old woman suffered a stroke after receiving a second Gardasil injection. She told her story by saying, "Before the shot I was fine, and there is no reason I should have had a stroke. This story also reported on a 13-year-old girl named Jenny who was healthy prior to receiving her third Gardasil shot and then began showing signs of having been stricken with a degenerative muscle disease, and is now almost completely paralyzed.

CWFA leader Wendy Wright summed up the concerns by saying, "There's been concern that the HP vaccine will cause complications because it's only been selectively tested during the trial phase. That's frankly what happens with nearly every drug or vaccine. That's why the efforts to mandate that this vaccine be given to every student, every girl in sixth-grade in order for her to attend school, was so outrageous."

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