Gardasil Vaccine: Just Say NO to Compulsory Vaccination

I’m sorry but as a doctor with a special interest in women’s health issues, I am going to have to call balderdash on the Gardasil vaccine.

The marketing Merck is using for their new vaccine is just garbage.

Gardasil=Garbage

Perhaps we should just refer to it from this point on as Garbagesil.

Why in the world did Merck make a vaccine for an already preventable disease? Cervical cancer is preventable through yearly pap smears, healthy diet, and healthy lifestyle.

Why isn’t Merck focusing their time, resources, and research on diseases that we desperately need vaccines for such as HIV and hepatitis C?

Why?

Because they are being sued for billions of dollars for their recent Vioxx death debacle and are left as a result desperately scrambling to find some new revenue streams. Now Merck lobbyists are headed to an area near YOU to try and mandate that their vaccine should be required for ALL school age girls in the United States!

They have already been successful in Texas.

I am not really even sure why they invested so much money and research dollars in a vaccine for a very slow growing cancer that can be easily treated if caught early by yearly pap smears. I am guessing that this vaccine must have been developed by accident and now is being marketed to young girls as a major money making scheme on the part of Merck Manufacturing.

Does this infuriate parents everywhere?

First of all the earliest HUMAN research I am even able to find listed on this vaccine starts in 2006. We don’t know the long term results of the use of this vaccine in humans. Worse yet, most of the studies done were on animals. Human beings are the only animals that even get cervical cancer.

What are the long term ramifications of using this vaccine in humans? Until that is known Merck has NO right to lobby for compulsory mandates and forcing their Garbagesil on the already overloaded vaccine schedule we overwhelm our children with.

Just try and find me one single longitudinal study on Gardasil. There aren’t any.

I guess I should make it perfectly clear that I am not against the use of vaccines. If I had a child I would vaccinate them against the basics-but if they were healthy and not at high risk I would hold off on this brand new vaccine until more long term studies come out. I truly believe that most vaccines definitely provide greater benefits than their risks, but anything new is going to get a skeptical eye from me, especially when ethically questionable marketing tactics are occurring from the manufacturer.

A clinical research and scientific expert who asked to remain anonymous (for fear of losing her job) when interviewed about Gardasil not only refused the vaccine for her own daughter stating, “I will not let my daughter be a lab animal for Merck”, she echo’s the concerns around the use of this vaccine, stating, “[Gardasil] is crap and making it compulsory after only two years in the market is criminal. The FDA has no right for giving it fast-track approval and supporting the push for mandatory use after the phen-fen, chantix, vioxx, accomplia and associated fiasco’s. Especially for pediatric use while sweeping the emerging adverse events under the rug.”

Cervical cancer is nowhere near the public health risk that measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, pertussis and even chicken pox are. Most younger women don’t suffer from life threatening stages of cervical cancer if they simply go in for their yearly pap smear. With DES gradually moving out of the picture our only real concern is HPV causing cervical cancer. Yes, HPV is a virus that can cause cervical cancer, but is typically cleared by about 90% of the population.

We usually really only see serious stages of cervical cancer when yearly paps are skipped and multiple risk factors are present such as: smoking, multiple sex partners, high stress, family genetics, poor nutrition, family history of DES, and so forth. With all the current controversy surrounding vaccines these days we need to stick with the basics and only use vaccines that have passed the test of time and/or risk major public health epidemics if not utilized.

Cervical cancer is not a national epidemic.

Actually according to the American Cancer Society it is on the decline. Merck simply wants to sell more vaccines. Plain and simple. Mandatory Gardasil vaccination for all public schools girls is one of the dirtiest attempts to make money I have ever witnessed and who is at risk? Little girls all over America!

Little girls that aren’t even sexually active are already being damaged by this unneeded vaccine. As of June 2008 10,000+ case complaints have been reported to the VAERS group, including deaths and hospitalizations.

The CDC of course isn’t even batting an eyelash, because these side effects are actually pretty typical patterns for all vaccines. Unfortunately anytime we inject anything into anyone, even vitamins, we risk harm. So a nationwide mandate will inevitably resort in harmful side effects to a small percentage of the vaccinated population—and for no good cause when we already have the pap test. The greater number vaccinated, the greater the inevitable harm.

Don’t we have bigger fish to fry in medicine? What a complete waste of time and resources for medical research and funding. Sure this vaccine may be life saving in third world countries, but in countries where women are already going in to the doctor for a yearly exam—this vaccine is simply not necessary. But, people are so terrified of the “C” word they are vaccinating anyways.

The American Cancer Society on Cervical Cancer:

“About 3,870 women will die from cervical cancer in the United States during 2008. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for American women. The cervical cancer death rate declined by 74% between 1955 and 1992. The main reason for this change is the increased use of the Pap test.

This screening procedure can find changes in the cervix before cancer develops. It can also find early cervical cancer in its most curable stage. The death rate from cervical cancer continues to decline by nearly 4% a year.”

So with the cervical cancer death rates nearing zero percent in the next decade why should we allow Merck to mandate a universal vaccination program for all little girls in America that shouldn’t even reduce cervical cancer rates for 10-20 more years? Are they going to take credit for “curing cervical” cancer in the next twenty years as well? They easily could if we don’t keep a careful eye on these statistics.

My heart of course goes out to the friends, family, and patients I know that have suffered from cervical cancer. My goal is not to offend those with this serious disease. But we need to think about new public health mandates critically. Cervical cancer is not polio, and is not measles, it is a slow growing cancer that can be caught early through annual pap screening. The biggest risk here is that we don’t even know if the vaccine is going to be efficacious during the 10-20 year time frame that it is intended to prevent cancer.

Healthy little girls are being vaccinated at ages 9-13 and they aren’t even at risk until a few decades later. How can the Gardasil manufacturer’s feel entitled to lobby for nationwide mandates of this vaccine?

Gardasil at best only provides <70% of protection from only 2 of the hundreds of viral strains that cause cancer. These two strains are the most common causes of cervical cancer, but they aren’t the only causes. The vaccine also is protective from two strains of HPV that cause genital warts. Genital warts are an inconvenience, not a national epidemic that requires a universal compulsory vaccine mandate.

Genital warts are not small pox.

Furthermore, why are we vaccinating 9-13 year old girls when the death rates are in much older women and we don’t even know how long the vaccine will remain efficacious? No long term studies have been conducted to date on Gardasil. I know the CDC is targeting this younger population in hopes of wiping out cervical cancer in the next 20 years-but cervical cancer is already on it’s way out.

The earliest human studies date back to 2006. We can only make educated guesses about how long the Gardasil vaccine is efficacious based off the performance of other vaccines. But they would just be guesses.

If your child is healthy and not at high risk, you can choose to hold off on the Gardasil vaccine until more research comes out.

Don’t let the watered down hype your doctor is pushing on you from Merck manufacturers courtesy of the CDC and FDA force you to vaccinate your already healthy child.

You certainly shouldn’t allow your government to make this decision for you. If you want to get your child vaccinated, then go for it. I don’t want to get in the way of actually preventing a case of cervical cancer. I just want to be the voice of reason against the GIANT drug manufacturer that is buying lobbyists and politicians up left and right to make money off our already healthy children.

Any injectable substance can harm your child. Almost all vaccines are injected and should thus be used judiciously. All new vaccines should be launched cautiously to targeted high risk groups before mandating blanket vaccine policies across America—like what Merck is intending to do. A practice like this could wipe out the reproduction of an entire healthy generation of young women in America if we do not exercise initial caution.

Merck is simply working the super scary “cancer” angle and relying on society’s notorious fear of cancer to make an extra few billion dollars each year. Let me tell you that cervical cancer for those that are getting yearly pap smears is the least of our worries. Merck is not only wasting insurance company and consumer dollars on their new Garbagesil vaccine, they are wasting millions of dollars they should be spending on researching HIV and Hepatitis C vaccines to force their Garbagesil on all little girls in America!

Merck is spending millions of dollars to lobby for this so that they can make billions of dollars annually off the new mandatory Gardasil vaccination program. It seriously cost them a small fortune to get this approved in the state of Texas.

They won’t be stopped unless Americans make the decision to stop them now. Do we really want to take medical advice from the manufactures of Vioxx, the death causing medication that was recently yanked from the shelves and inspiring lawsuits everywhere?

Should we really allow these people to now mandate our vaccine schedules as well? Absolutely not! I recall problems seen with Vioxx nearly ten years ago and just recently the FDA chose to finally yank the drug. If you have enough money in medicine you can buy research to show that anything is safe.

I hope everyone reading this article can see what a personal and professional risk I am taking to stand up against Gardasil. But the life threatening risks that Merck is placing upon little girls everywhere for their own financial gain has me infuriated. Frankly if they weren’t lobbying for compulsory vaccination I would label this vaccine as “an interesting development in cancer prevention”, recommend it for high risk groups and tell everyone else to wait a bit for more research, and leave it at that.

But this lobbying attempt is costing consumers a pretty penny. The three dose vaccine series costs $350—and that is just for the vaccine. The total cost to our health care system per child is upwards towards $850 when you factor in the price of three doctor office visits. If Merck actually was concerned about public health causes they would be providing this vaccine for free. This would be a pro-bono public health perk to apologize for all the Americans they killed with their crappy drug Vioxx.

But wait—cervical cancer is not a public health crisis, it is already preventable through pap smears and thus Merck has no other choice but to confuse doctors, nurses, families, politicians, and young girls across the nation with their ridiculously un-useful Garbagesil vaccine ads. They aren’t sorry for what they did to us with Vioxx, and they are simply doing it all over again with Gardasil.

With all the eyebrows raised at vaccines these days we need to ALWAYS weigh the risks vs the benefits before choosing to inject a vaccine into a patient. Especially when we are considering injecting the toxic substance aluminum in to our children at three different settings. Each injection of Gardasil delivers an estimated 225mcg of toxic aluminum in to your child. (Source: FDA.gov) For a 24 hour period after this vaccination your child is suffering from aluminum poisoning. What are the side effects of aluminum poisoning? Flu like symptoms, diarrhea, vomiting, syncope, and pain and burning at the injection site. The same immediate reactions we are seeing in Gardasil-and the long term consequences of the vaccine are unknown.

Vaccine manufacturers aren’t intentionally trying to poison anyone, they just can’t get vaccines to work without the aluminum “adjuvant”. Adjuvant means something that helps a vaccine work, and fortunately scientists are looking for safer non-toxic options. In the mean time we should only be using vaccines that are highly necessary. This vaccine until proven efficacious and safe 10-20 years from now should not be forced on the public school system.

There really is zero case for vaccinating all children in America against cervical cancer. We do not need this unnecessary vaccine added to the schedule. Frankly, there is absolutely no case for the benefits outweighing the risks of the brand new Garadil vaccine yet unless you are a chain smoking, sex worker living in a third world county. But those people that desperately need this vaccine are not going to be able to afford it.

Instead Merck is forcing Americans to pay for it so they can make an extra few billion dollars each year. Only vaccines that pose a serious public health threat should be forced on parents. Cervical cancer is a private health risk that should be decided privately. Forcing this vaccine on our public school system is a violation of our American rights, as well as an expensive unneeded burden on our already failing health care system.

Cervical cancer is preventable enough through yearly screening diet and lifestyle. We should instead be educating our children to eat green and yellow vegetables rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene and folic acid, avoid smoking, and avoid unsafe sex practices.

We should NOT be condoning unsafe sex via a shot that provides less than <70% protection from all HPV viruses that cause cervical cancer.

Really HPV is the least of our concerns when we are facing AIDS and hepatitis. Think about all the disease that could be prevented instead if doctors were taking the 15 minutes used now to teach about the Garbagesil vaccine and actually talked to their patients about diet, lifestyle, and safe sex! But unfortunately doctors and nurse’s get paid very little for their educational time, and most of them don’t have the time for it anyways. I know this first hand because I worked in a busy family practice setting as a medical assistant for eight years throughout my medical training.

Here is the CDC’s stance on Gardasil:

(Based off of Merck manufacturer’s research)

“Gardasil was tested in over 11,000 girls and women in the United States and around the world, and found to be safe and effective in preventing serious HPV-related diseases. These studies showed that in women who have never been infected by HPV types 6, 11, 16 or 18, the vaccine is highly effective, both in preventing precancerous lesions that often develop into cancer of the cervix, vagina and vulva, and in preventing genital warts caused by these HPV types. This vaccine is an important cervical cancer prevention tool that will potentially benefit the health of millions of women.

Every year, about 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and almost 4,000 die from this disease in the United States. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women, causing an estimated 470,000 new cases and 233,000 deaths per year.”

Let me tell you something right now—those 4000 women that die every year from cervical cancer are likely not the ones that are even going in to their doctor’s offices for annual exams. They are the women that are skipping their annual exams, and are getting diagnosed with cervical cancer too late for treatment.

These women that are dying are not even candidates for the vaccine because they aren’t going to their doctor’s office anyways. The vaccine will not likely ever change that statistic. Yes, perhaps if we blanket vaccinated all little girls across America NOW that may protects a very small group of future women—but how many each year are going to be harmed from inevitable adverse vaccine reactions?

Let’s see what else the American Cancer Society has to say about cervical cancer:

“Cervical cancer tends to occur in midlife. Most cases are found in women younger than 50. It rarely develops in women younger than 20. Many older women do not realize that the risk of developing cervical cancer is still present as they age. Almost 20% of women with cervical cancer are diagnosed when they are over 65.”

Furthermore the women that are most affected by cervical cancer are the ones that are children and grandchildren of mothers that were given DES (diethylstilbestrol) and as a result of exposure to this man-made synthetic drug passed down by their mothers, are dying from cervical cancer.

How did this vaccine even make it to the FDA fast track when our own American Cancer Society is saying that cervical cancer is on the decline? Most of the cervical cancer deaths we are looking at currently were not caused by HPV but were caused by the synthetic medication DES. So how is our medical community dealing with this iatrogenic or “doctor inflicted” cause of cervical cancer? They are implementing yet another new “treatment” that has no known long term studies.

Does anyone else smell a new possible iatrogenic cause of death or reproductive damage in the air?

How did Merck even get Gardasil rushed through the FDA so quickly? Money of course. I have never seen a vaccine approved utilized and then mandated in a matter of a year.

Mandating the Gardasil vaccine in schools is so preposterous I could almost laugh out loud, if it wasn’t for the fact that parents everywhere are now being pressured to give their children this vaccine.

If your child is healthy and not even sexually active they do NOT need this vaccine. Yes, doctors want to target younger groups of children as a preventative, but why should your child have to be Merck’s test bunny so they can make billions? This vaccine is not preventing all STD’s and only is protective to less than 70% of the known HPV strains that cause cervical cancer. An estimated 90% of HPV infections clear up on there own. HPV is not the killer that Merck is trying to coerce you in to fearing. Worse yet, the long term effects of this vaccine are unstudied! Don’t let your little girl be Merck’s lab rat.

Could we have another DES epidemic on our hands here? Potentially. Without good longitudinal research we won’t know until it is too late. We once thought DES was safe too…and now it has killed generations of women everywhere…and their children…and new studies are showing that it is still somehow even affecting their grandchildren.

Doctors and researchers still don’t fully understand the human reproductive system, immune system, or how vaccines work, enough to know how this brand new vaccine could adversely affect an entire generation of healthy little girls! Why in the world would we choose to implement a vaccine that is not even necessary when we don’t know the long term ramifications?

I am happy to add Gardasil to my list of vaccine recommendations in about ten to twenty years after it has been shown to prevent disease without consequence in sex workers, smokers, those with family history of reproductive cancer, and others at high risk for cervical cancer. But, Gardasil is not a vaccine for HIV, hepatitis C, or epidemic viral killers. Gardasil is a somewhat pointless vaccine attempting to prevent an already preventable disease by injecting known aluminum toxins in to your child.

The physician’s oath is to “First Do No Harm”. Vaccinating low risk healthy young girls without knowing the consequences of this brand new vaccine is the most lackadaisical harm a physician can potentially implement.

In all honesty, with the advent of the pap smear, we do not need to be that worried about cervical cancer. A healthy immune system knows how to handle HPV. Studies show that 90% of individuals are able to clear HPV when exposed. What if we spent $850 per 13 year old girl on EDUCATING about diet, lifestyle, and safe sex practices? What if we not only were able to prevent cervical cancer from this $850 educational session, but what if we could prevent HIV, herpes, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, unplanned pregnancies, abortions, lung cancer, diabetes and heart disease too?

We should be worried about teaching children about abstinence, safe sex, and yearly pap smear screenings instead of copping out with a new shot with unknown long term side effects. Cervical cancer is a slow growing cancer and administering a vaccine with potentially unknown reproductive consequences and known life threatening consequences such as severe allergy, Guillan Barre, and possible death- is simply not practicing good medicine. The risks by far outweigh the benefits. Why would you want to subject your already healthy daughter to the possibility of serious adverse reactions from Gardasil injection when a yearly pap smear is enough to prevent death from cervical cancer?

Sure—vaccinate people in 3rd world countries that do not have access to yearly pap smears. That makes sense, as unfortunately these people do not have access to the high end health care that we afford the luxury of in the United States. Sure vaccinate the high risk groups. But think twice before you expose your healthy child to an unnecessary vaccine that has not proven to be safe in the long term, and does NOT completely provide protection from all strains of HPV that are known to cause cervical cancer.

If your child is not at high risk for cervical cancer, feel free to confidently answer “no thanks” when your doctor suggests the Gardasil vaccine.

If your doctor argues with you about it see just how educated they actually are on this new vaccine. Ask them about the long term consequences of the vaccine, ask them if your child falls in to a high risk category, ask them about the side effects, and ask them if they think it is an absolutely necessary vaccine for YOUR child. Those are the questions you should always ask your doctor anyways about vaccines.

I have spent several entire days researching Gardasil because of my continuing concerns.

Most doctors only have at the most an hour or two to update themselves on the new CDC blanket recommendations. Don’t allow the CDC to smother your child under their blanket! Blanket recommendations may be useful for populations, but they can be damaging for individuals.

The CDC reports that “Twenty deaths had been reported to the FDA- and CDC-administered Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as of June 30, 2008, in women that received Gardasil.”

Although no clear correlation has been made between the causes of death and that vaccine it is always possible for any injected substance to cause an unknown reaction or allergy resulting in death. No matter how “safe” any vaccine is thought to be, death is an undisputed consequence of any injectable substance in medicine.

Why bother allowing your child to be a crash test dummy for this new vaccine at all? Should we even trust Merck manufacturing at all after the Vioxx scandle? Gardasil was only tested on 11,000 women to show that it works, and we don’t know the long term consequences. Why bother waiting around for research to prove that it is safe or not safe?

Gardasil is not a highly necessary vaccine. Cervical cancer is not a public health epidemic like measles or polio. And cervical cancer caught in early stages through yearly screening is nowhere near as life threatening as tetanus or diphtheria. I am not specifically for or against vaccine use. I support the judicious use of vaccinations that prevent death and public health crises, but Gardasil does not fall in this category, and with all the concern from parent’s that feel their children have been damaged by the use of vaccines we need to be exceedingly cautious when implementing new vaccines until they are proven safe without a shadow of a doubt.

With all the concerns and controversy of vaccines these days we need to practice extreme caution until we can fully understand what the exact problem is. Is it the mercury? Is it the aluminum? Is it the formaldehyde? Is it the viral or bacterial particles themselves? What is it? We don’t know, and until we know we need to implement only needed vaccines judiciously. The FDA opened and closed the case for vaccines causing autism too quickly, there is not substantial research, and the American people are just simply not convinced.

If Merck really wants to focus on prevention why don’t they just give young girls multi-vitamins, beta carotene, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, green tea, and condoms instead? Studies have shown all of the aforementioned to prevent HPV.

Also new studies show that antioxidant rich foods such as green tea, beta carotene and folic acid are enough to help healthy cells regenerate and clear the human papilloma virus. These supplements will also prevent damage from the strains of HPV that these young girls are not being protected from. Gardasil is not even that great because it only immunizes against less than half of the viral variations of HPV that we currently know cause cervical cancer. Viruses are constantly adapting and mutating. Gardasil will also not be protective against the new strains of HPV that will inevitably mutate and develop.

Gardasil provides a false sense of security.

Did your doctor inform you that your child is only provided with <70% protection from all the strains of HPV known to cause cancer? Did your doctor educate your child that she will not need this new vaccine if she doesn’t smoke, doesn’t engage in unsafe sex practices, takes a multi-vitamin, gets an annual pap smear if sexually active, has no family risk of reproductive cancer or DES use, and eats her fruits and veggies?

The diet and lifestyle choices that protect a young girl from cervical cancer also protect us from a myriad of more life threatening disease than cervical cancer and therefore the $850 spent on Garbagesil are better off spent on patient education.

Now, what kind of message are we sending to our teens with this new vaccine? “Just get a shot and you are protected from STD’s!”

This is not the message that we need to be sending to our teens, and this vaccine is brand new with unknown long term side effects in human beings. Furthermore, we are injecting toxic levels of aluminum on three separate occasions in to our healthy children. Kudos to Merck for not putting thimerosol in Gardasil, I can at least congratulate them on that decision, however the aluminum is unfortunately the only option we currently have to make the vaccine work, and it unavoidable.

If your doctor is pushing the Gardasil vaccine on your child then I would simply find a new doctor.

Only you and your child should decide whether or not you choose to use Gardasil. Not your doctor, not your child’s school, not Merck manufacturing, and certainly NOT the government. I hope parents everywhere will just say NO to this ridiculously unneeded school vaccine program, and that health care providers will step up to the plate and provide actual preventative patient education and not promote some Gardasil vaccination program that sends mixed messages to our already confused children about safe sex, “great I just got vaccinated for STD’s today. Now I can’t get them!”

Regardless of if you decide to vaccinate or not vaccinate your child with Gardasil, please just say “NO” to Merck’s Lobbying for Compulsory Gardasil Vaccines! This is a private decision that should be made privately in doctor’s offices. Not a public health decision to be made by public schools.

~Dr. Nicole Sundene
Self Appointed Advocate for Little Girls Everywhere-and Common Sense.

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