Supreme Court Suit Filed over HPV Vaccine Tragedy in India

Supreme Court Suit Filed over HPV Vaccine Tragedy in India







The editor of the paper that originally published this story about
a lawsuit against GSK, Indian states, India's Drug Controller and
others, is now in prison. Gaia Health is carrying the banner to keep
these stories out there. We need to know that there is a battle being
waged against the use of our children as vaccine product dumps so that
Big Pharma can make Big Profits

Christina England
Activist Post

On October 29, 2012, activists Kalpana Mehta and Nalini Bhanot, along with Dr. Rukmini Rao, President of the Gramya Resource Centre for Women
in India, filed a writ petition with the Supreme Court of India under
Article 32 of The Constitution of India for Women. The petition was
filed against:

• Drug Controller General of India
  
• Indian Council of Medical Research
  
• State of Andhra Pradesh
  
• State of Gujarat
  
• PATH International
  
• GlaxoSmithKline Asia Private Limited
  
• MSD Pharmaceuticals Private Limited
  

(A writ petition
is a document filed to the court that includes an introduction to the
issue and an explanation why a petition is needed as a means of
preventing irreparable harm. The explanation is supported with
allegations by the Petitioner and a memorandum of the issues raised.)

The petition outlines a series of serious allegations regarding the HPV vaccines Gardasil®
and Cervarix®. Petitioners Kalpana Mehta, Nalini Bhanot and Dr. Rukmini
Rao reported that the two HPV vaccines were illegally brought into the
states of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat and subsequently administered to
thousands of young, vulnerable Indian children before the vaccines were
known to be safe.


The three Petitioners told the court that even though the Indian
government and the above organizations knew the HPV vaccines were of
dubious value and of speculative benefits, they continued to allow a
trial using both the Gardasil® and Cervarix® vaccines without regard to
the potential endangerment of the lives of adolescent girls.

The petition outlined how the above organizations vaccinated tens of
thousands of vulnerable girls aged between 10-14 years and then
abandoned them without providing any information on potential adverse
reactions, scheduling follow-up examinations, or offering post-vaccine
treatment.

The vaccines were introduced to the public sector by carrying out a
trial vaccinating 16,000 adolescent girls (10-14 years) in Andhra
Pradesh and an equal number in Gujarat. The petitioners believed that by
vaccinating children with HPV vaccines while being fully aware of the
potential dangers, the organizations involved knowingly put the lives of
tens of thousands of children at risk from potentially serious vaccine-related adverse reactions and death. The Petitioners stated that the unlicensed HPV vaccines only became licensed midway through the project:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">These vaccines had not been assessed with
respect to safety and efficacy for the Indian population where
adolescent girls are overwhelmingly anemic and malnourished. No steps
were taken to ensure the health and safety of the girls. They were not
screened adequately for contraindications. On the contrary, they were told that the vaccine had no adverse effects, not even those that were acknowledged by the manufacturers.
Referral and treatment of serious adverse effects was not planned and
as a result, private doctors and government hospitals were not aware
that the girls coming to them in serious condition were subjects of
vaccine trials. No monitoring of the program was done. No course
correction was made. After vaccination, the girls were dumped with no
follow up.</blockquote>To further support their claims, the Petitioners shared a statement, which had been published on the WHO website :
<blockquote class="tr_bq">The short (2-3 years) post marketing
surveillance periods of these vaccines do not permit final assessments
of possible rare or long-term adverse effects.</blockquote>All girls
were vaccinated by the U.S.-based NGO (Non Government Organization) and
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health).

As stated in the petition, the project was discontinued only after several women's organizations reported:

• Deaths among the participants
  
• The use of vulnerable population
  
• Lack of informed consent
  

The Petitioners accused project leaders of falsification of the
records and stated that the project had been carried out with severe
lack of monitoring, stating that PATH and the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) as well as state authorities covered up the adverse
effects and deaths that have been described in the petition:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Some of the girls died. Some suffered
serious adverse effects. Some of the girls developed autoimmune diseases
that would require lifelong care. The manufacturers themselves
acknowledged adverse events such as anaphylactic shock, seizures and
paralysis, motor neuron disease, blood clots, eye, ear and vascular
problems and even death, and problems affecting the nervous system, the
immune system, the musculoskeletal system, the blood and lymphatic
system, the respiratory system,the gastrointestinal system and the
vascular system. In the PATH project, these adverse events were grossly
under reported and hidden. Records were falsified. Deaths that took
place were stated as having nothing to do with the administering of the
vaccines and were described as deaths due to suicides, insecticide
poisoning and snake bites.</blockquote>In an interview, Kalpana
Mehta told me there had been gross anomalies in the death-related
documentation, indicating a cover-up and that even the age of the girl
who died failed to match the projects records. She said:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">The dates of postmortems were poorly
documented and inaccurate and instead of being written on hospital
stationary many had been written on plain paper without signatures.</blockquote>The
citizens of India have every right to be concerned. It appears that
their government officials have fallen prey to collusion of
international agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH and WHO. They have
allowed tens of thousands of young, vulnerable, rural Indian children
to be involved in the HPV vaccine experiment, with no benefit. Ms. Mehta
says:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">Even a government appointed inquiry committee
found gross irregularity with the consent process. Indian law provides
for compensation for violation of the informed consent procedure in
addition to the compensation for death and injury suffered by trial
subjects. However even after two years the government has failed to act
on its own inquiry. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">This inquiry
committee also noted that by taking vaccines free of cost from the
manufacturers, the project was mired in conflict of interest. It also
took strong exception to PATH ensuring itself for the project but
leaving the girls uninsured.</blockquote>By this time, a massive 24,000
girls had already been vaccinated and, according to the petitioners,
many of these young women had been coerced into accepting the vaccine.
Parents were reassured, without scientific basis, that the vaccines
would not impact their children's future fertility. Concerned about this
information, the Petitioners stated:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">As of now there is alarming news of menopause
setting in a 16 year-old girl from Australia, where the doctor has found
Gardasil® to be the only probable cause of this rarest of rare mishap."
Link to Article</blockquote>Since the petition was submitted, yet more information on the similar plight of girls in Australia has come to light. The Sunday Telegraph has published a story, first reported in the British Medical Journal, of a previously healthy 16 year-old girl whose premature menopause may be linked to the Gardasil® vaccination.

According to The Telegraph, Dr. Ward told reporters that women's fertility must be protected at all costs. Ms. Botha
has been echoing Dr. Ward's words for years. She has stressed on many
occasions that vaccinating girls at menarche – the onset of
menstruation, which is the most fragile reproductive time of a woman's
life – is dangerous:
<blockquote class="tr_bq">As the female hormone levels of estrogen and
progesterone decrease during the premenstrual phase, the female body
begins the process of releasing the uterine lining in the act of
menstruation. The decrease in hormones actually affects a woman's energy
levels and her emotions. The immune system becomes more compromised,
and that translates to a lowered defense system to fight off invading,
foreign toxins.</blockquote>There has been no evidence to suggest that
any of the above crucial issues were ever considered by any of the
organizations involved in these vaccination trials. Many of those
vaccinated were children who had not even reached puberty and as yet
there is no way of telling if this vaccine has affected their future
fertility.

Conclusion

Three women in India have brought the world's attention to the unethical
procedures that they say have been carried out by pharmaceutical
companies, the Gates Foundation and governments around the world. The
Supreme Court of India should be lauded for hearing their case. What we
are witnessing is a historical event. It is rare for lay people seeking
justice to protect the innocent to be given the opportunity to be heard
by the greatest court in their land.

The rest of the global community needs to watch, and support these brave
women. This could potentially set a global precedent and in my opinion
finally put an end to the medical experimentation of the innocent, the
uneducated and the misinformed. As we await the outcome of this hearing,
I believe we need to ask these important questions. How were 24,000
young girls allowed to be vaccinated with a trial vaccination, without
being given any information on potential adverse reactions or follow up
appointments? How can PATH justify their actions when informed consent
had not been granted? Where is the truth – where is the justice? I feel
that it is time that the organizations involved made a public statement
to the world.

Christina England is a mother who was accused of Münchausen syndrome
by proxy (MSBP) and is an investigative reporter for American Chronicle
and The Weekly Blitz. Her gut-wrenching experience has led her on a
non-stop quest into the correlation between such diagnoses as sudden
infant death syndrome, shaken baby syndrome and Münchausen syndrome by
proxy and to aid the parents doing time around the world for their
presumed abuses. With hundreds of expert doctors in tow, the truth is
slowly rearing its head. Christina is author of a new and extensive list
of articles on the subject of misdiagnoses of vaccine injuries.

Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/supreme-court-suit-filed-over-hpv.html