From The Healthier Life
Last week it transpired that the UK government now plans to switch from using Cervarix to Gardasil from September 2012. Gardasil (manufactured by Merck) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in 2006, and has since been used as a vaccine against the sexually transmitted Human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer. Gardasil targets four strains of HPV — two responsible for cervical cancer and two causing the less serious condition of genital warts, while Cervarix protects against only two of the HPV strains. David Salisbury, the UK government’s director of immunisation, said experts had weighed up both the cost and clinical benefits before deciding to switch to Gardasil.
Recently I told you about the latest controversy surrounding the cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix. For those who missed that alert, here’s a quick update:
Just weeks after 13-year-old Lucy Hinks received her third dose of the jab, she began to feel exhausted. Two months later, she had lost a stone in weight and since then has been sleeping for up to 23 hours a day. She had been in perfect health, had an excellent school attendance record and was among the top students in her class… until she received Cervarix.
Lucy is just one of many girls who have suffered adverse side effects after getting the Cervarix vaccine… Back in 2009, controversy struck Cervarix, when 14-year-old Natalie Morton died just hours after being given the vaccine…
It gets worse
Last week it transpired that the UK government now plans to switch from using Cervarix to Gardasil from September 2012. Gardasil (manufactured by Merck) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in 2006, and has since been used as a vaccine against the sexually transmitted Human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer.
Gardasil targets four strains of HPV — two responsible for cervical cancer and two causing the less serious condition of genital warts, while Cervarix protects against only two of the HPV strains. David Salisbury, the UK government’s director of immunisation, said experts had weighed up both the cost and clinical benefits before deciding to switch to Gardasil.
However, what we’re not being told is that Gardasil is as dangerous as Cervarix… if not worse!
Read the entire article here.
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