Lock up your daughters

Lock up your daughters



Where the US leads, the UK meekly follows, and drugs are no exception.
Last month the UK launched a major drive to offer the Gardasil vaccine,
first launched in America six years ago, for all 11- to 18-year-old
girls to prevent some strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV)
purported to cause cervical cancer.

The UK government’s
official line, as dutifully reported in the press, was that by replacing
Cervarix, the HPV vaccine offered since 2008, the UK now had a superior
vaccine on offer.

The press pounced on the news as evidence
that the old Blair/Brown Labour government had been ‘penny-pinching’ by
opting for the cheaper option, when there was this great alternative out
there that not only prevented cervical cancer but also genital warts.

There
has been much self-congratulation by Professor David Salisbury, the
government’s Director of Immunization, about how the UK has put in place
one of the best HPV vaccine programmes in the world. “Many women will
no longer have to live through the worry and stress of follow-up after
screening, including treatment for precancerous lesions,” he confidently
announced.

What the UK government isn’t telling you—and what you won’t read anywhere but in the pages of What Doctors Don’t Tell You’s October issue (on sale Monday)—is the true story of America’s experience with the HPV vaccine.

The
fact is, the marketing of Gardasil in America and elsewhere represents
one of the most reprehensible campaigns in drugs-industry history.

Well
before the vaccine’s launch date, Merck and Sanofi Pasteur, Gardasil’s
two manufacturers, engaged the services of some top advertising brains
to heighten fear in the public mind about cervical cancer.

These
modern Madmen unleashed their most potent weapon: a direct-to-preteen
ad campaign that made it hip and cool to be vaccinated. They hired
celebrities to highlight this growing health crisis. They paid for
doctors to attend rallies, demanding the ‘right’ to have a vaccine for
this worldwide epidemic.

It’s an old advertising stalwart: invent the problem to sell the solution.

For
a time it worked. Merck made an initial killing—until it was discovered
that the HPV vaccines are the most dangerous vaccines now on the US
market. According to the US government’s own vaccine reporting system,
serious injury related to these vaccines is more than double the number
of those reported for any other vaccine in America.

During the
new campaign this autumn, neither your doctor nor your daughter’s school
nurse are likely to tell you about the 100-plus American girls who
suddenly and inexplicably died after receiving an HPV vaccine or the
thousands more who are permanently bedridden with strange new autoimmune
and neurological illnesses.

Or the approximately 9,000 reports
received by the UK government of suspected side-effects from Cervarix,
one in six deemed serious. In fact, in proportion to our smaller
population size, we have reported a higher percentage of side-effects
than has the States.

Cervical cancer is not a common cancer in
the West. HPV is not a dangerous health epidemic. Ninety per cent of
cases of HPV clear up by themselves—as do cervical abnormalities, which
have other causes than simply a virus. Vaccines like Gardasil can
prevent, at best, a tiny percentage of lesions that lead to a tiny
percentage of cervical cancers, when there are safer and more effective
alternatives.

Thanks to the websites set up by the parents of
damaged girls and other negative publicity, Gardasil flopped in America.
Less than a third of eligible girls are electing to get the vaccine
over there.

That’s not been the case in Britain. We’re a nation
that likes to do what it’s told. Here 84 per cent of girls have lined up
to get their jabs, one of the best take-up rates for the HPV vaccine of
any nation in the world. That is more likely the reason why Merck put
its hat in the UK ring.

When it comes to Gardasil, the US has locked up its daughters. This may be one time to follow their lead.


Source:-
http://www.lynnemctaggart.com/blog/198-lock-up-your-daughters