Stuff You Need To Know About Big Pharma Lobbying In Canada

In an interview with CBC-TV, a representative of Merck-Frosst, the maker of the vaccine, admitted that lobbying is how business is done in Canada. The 15 minute TV-Report, which can be viewed here, http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/health/a_parents_dilemma_1.html says that this is the only case of government-mandated mass vaccination in the world. The last time Canada took such drastic action was during a polio outbreak in the 1950's. But there is no epidemic of cervical cancer now. In fact it doesn't even rank in the top 10 cancers affecting Canadian women. Whereas 400 women die of cervical cancer annually, over 5000 die of breast cancer. At the same time, society is giving children the message that being "sexually active" is part of "becoming a woman." In the TV report, a mother just laughs when her 13-year-old daughter announces her intention to become "sexually active" at age 16. A father thinks the vaccine is really cool while his daughter sits beside him in stunned silence. What message is he giving her? BOONDOGGLE WITH CONSEQUENCES At best, this vaccination campaign is a boondoggle. At worst it could have many negative effects. A reader from Argentina wrote that last year, the government tried to inoculate girls for Rubeola. This was stopped when some doctors revealed that the vaccine contained a sterilization agent called "prostaglandin." A report for the Women's Health Network by a McGill University epidemiologist calls the Gardasil program "premature and could possibly have unintended negative consequences for individuals and for society as a whole." While as many as 50% of women get some form of HPV over their lifetime, the report says most of these do not result in cervical cancer and can be cured. "Most HPV infections are cleared spontaneously. Recent research using available molecular detection technologies suggests that clearance occurs within one year for about 70 per cent of those infected, and within two years for 90 per cent. Thus, HPV infection and cervical cancer must not be conflated: most women who are infected with even a "high-risk" strain of HPV will not develop cervical cancer." The report also states that clinical trials were insufficient to test the efficacy of the vaccine since the subjects were too young to be exposed to HPV. http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/cwhn/hpv-brief.html During the last six months of 2006, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) got 385 reports of adverse reactions to Gardasil. "There are twice as many children collapsing and four times as many children experiencing tingling, numbness and loss of sensation after getting a GARDASIL vaccination compared to those getting a Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis) vaccination. There have been reports of facial paralysis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome. And doctors who give GARDASIL in combination with other vaccines are basically conducting an experiment on their young patients because Merck has not published any safety data for simultaneous vaccination with any vaccine except hepatitis B vaccine." http://www.rense.com/general78/pharma.htm [Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 10, 2007]

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