What possible risk/ benefit standard can justify giving an inadequately studied vaccine whose risks include serious, permanent adverse effects–including death– to millions of girls and women–who will likely never get cervical cancer?
Dr. Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine, who says giving the drug to 11-year-old girls "is a great big public health experiment."
The fracas arising from Merck’s aggressive lobbying states to mandate its new HPV vaccine, Gardasil, for 11 year old girls has kicked up a dust storm and drawn a line in the sand.
Good News–Merck caved under backlash.
The Alliance for Human Research Protection is proud to have played a role in helping to open a public debate about Merck's flagrant commercial push to influence public officials into mandating its human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, for girls aged 11 to 26.
We are gratified that Texas Governor Rick Perry's Executive Order mandating HPV Vaccine Carries NO Force of Law! It's dead on arrival.
What, in addition to $6,000 does the governor of Texas have to gain by issuing an order REQUIRING all Texas 11 year old girls to be vaccinated?
The WSJ confirms that Merck is "desperate" for funding streams and "vaccination across the U.S. would make Gardasil an automatic blockbuster."
American preteen girls have been designated to pay the price by exposing their bodies to risks of harm.
"I am so bothered by the speed by which adults are ready to put chemicals into little girls bodies without a full understanding of what harm those chemicals could cause in the short and long term.
Merck is lobbying states to MANDATE schoolgirls to be vaccinated with its new vaccine.
The FDA appears to have learned nothing from recent catastrophic disasters.
