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Some of you may have seen the news reports about a few deaths in India shortly after being administered the HPV vaccine. 6 young girls have died in a very short time after being given the vaccine, and naturally the authorities wanted to investigate. But I was waiting until the details came out before I reported on it.
So, here's the scoop. Both Gardasil and Ceravix were given permission to conduct Phase III trials in India - which is basically the kind of trial that has been deemed safe enough to test on humans directly in large numbers. In the lab, it passed enough tests to be considered safe, but sometimes there are things that we only find out when we can expose large numbers of humans to find any unusual quirks that might not show up in a nice and tidy lab. Drugs and vaccines need to be tested as excessively safe before they make it to the Phase III level. That's just a quick sum-up.
Anyway, so they did this trial and 6 girls who participated in the trial ended up dead. The vaccines were immediately pulled and investigations started, naturally. This, of course, was done on their own, not prompted only by special interests groups, because, contrary to the fearmongers, Big Pharma is not some shadowy cloak-and-dagger evil Empire out to kill the humans. It's a collection of many organizations, for-profit corporations, and government entities, all staffed by people. Some, naturally, want their corporations to to do well, others are motivated by compassion for other people - a desire to help find cures and make lives better, and others just want to file their papers alphabetically and collect their paycheck.
Anyway, so they pulled the vaccines and conducted an investigation. And, surprise, surprise, all 6 of the deaths are conclusively attributed to other causes. 4 of which were stated in this one article: fever, suicide, drowning, and severe anemia with malaria & a snake bite.
Seriously? Two girls died from drowning and a suicide and they got lumped into the body count for Gardasil? This isn't like some mysterious and unusual heart condition that would take an in-depth autopsy to conclusively determine was a pre-existing condition and not related to the vaccine but that we wouldn't know that at the time it happened and a correlation would be a reasonable suspicion.
I haven't even gotten to the worst part.
So, they conclusively decided that all 6 of the deaths were not related, and yet India has decided to permanently pull the plug on the HPV vaccine and there is a call to pull the vaccine from all the other States.
So, here's a vaccine that has proven to be harmless (as far as vaccines go, this has some of the fewest side effects, and least dangerous side effects of almost any vaccine), has also proven to significantly decrease the incidence of death by painful and prolonged cancer, and yet, for your "protection", we're going to refuse to allow you to take it because a handful of people who have taken the vaccine have, coincidentally, died of totally unrelated causes.
Because dying of cancer is preferable to taking a vaccine that someone else took who happened to drown later that same year.
So, here's the scoop. Both Gardasil and Ceravix were given permission to conduct Phase III trials in India - which is basically the kind of trial that has been deemed safe enough to test on humans directly in large numbers. In the lab, it passed enough tests to be considered safe, but sometimes there are things that we only find out when we can expose large numbers of humans to find any unusual quirks that might not show up in a nice and tidy lab. Drugs and vaccines need to be tested as excessively safe before they make it to the Phase III level. That's just a quick sum-up.
Anyway, so they did this trial and 6 girls who participated in the trial ended up dead. The vaccines were immediately pulled and investigations started, naturally. This, of course, was done on their own, not prompted only by special interests groups, because, contrary to the fearmongers, Big Pharma is not some shadowy cloak-and-dagger evil Empire out to kill the humans. It's a collection of many organizations, for-profit corporations, and government entities, all staffed by people. Some, naturally, want their corporations to to do well, others are motivated by compassion for other people - a desire to help find cures and make lives better, and others just want to file their papers alphabetically and collect their paycheck.
Anyway, so they pulled the vaccines and conducted an investigation. And, surprise, surprise, all 6 of the deaths are conclusively attributed to other causes. 4 of which were stated in this one article: fever, suicide, drowning, and severe anemia with malaria & a snake bite.
Seriously? Two girls died from drowning and a suicide and they got lumped into the body count for Gardasil? This isn't like some mysterious and unusual heart condition that would take an in-depth autopsy to conclusively determine was a pre-existing condition and not related to the vaccine but that we wouldn't know that at the time it happened and a correlation would be a reasonable suspicion.
I haven't even gotten to the worst part.
So, they conclusively decided that all 6 of the deaths were not related, and yet India has decided to permanently pull the plug on the HPV vaccine and there is a call to pull the vaccine from all the other States.
So, here's a vaccine that has proven to be harmless (as far as vaccines go, this has some of the fewest side effects, and least dangerous side effects of almost any vaccine), has also proven to significantly decrease the incidence of death by painful and prolonged cancer, and yet, for your "protection", we're going to refuse to allow you to take it because a handful of people who have taken the vaccine have, coincidentally, died of totally unrelated causes.
Because dying of cancer is preferable to taking a vaccine that someone else took who happened to drown later that same year.
