After deaths, cervical cancer vaccine trials stopped
April 16th, 2010 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS ( 4 comments )New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The government Friday said that the cervical cancer HPV vaccination drive in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh was indeed part of approved clinical trials. But after the death of six tribal girls who were administered the vaccine, the government has told other states not to carry out any further such trials.
“Two imported brands of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines, namely Gardasil and Cervarix, were allowed to undergo clinical trial (Phase III) in India, before being granted permission for import and market authorisation,” said S.Gandhiselvan, minister of state for health and family welfare, in a statement to the Lok Sabha.
He added: “To assess the need of health services and the preparedness for introducing the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines in the future, PATH, an international NGO, was given permission for a post licensure observational study of HPV vaccination in Khammam district (Andhra Pradresh) and Vadodara district (Gujarat). The study by PATH was recommended by the Ethical Committee and Advisory Groups at the state and central level.”
According to the minister, the trial was “provided technical support for the development of protocols and advised on ethical issues” by the Indian Council of Medical Research, an autonomous research agency under the health ministry.
“Four deaths in the target of 14,019 in Andhra and two in the target of 10,686 in Gujarat have been reported from among the children who were administered these vaccines. The cause of deaths was determined as viral fever, drowning, suicide, severe anaemia with malaria and suspected snake bite. Based on the concerns on these deaths, states have been advised not to carry out any further vaccinations at present,” Gandhiselvan said.
Earlier this month, several enraged public health activists and Communist leader Brinda Karat had asked the union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to spell out the government’s stand on the very same vaccination programme alleging that there were murky practices being followed by Path and pharma companies.
They slammed the programme for being unethical and also because the trials were being conducted on poor and socio-economically marginal tribals who were being treated as “guinea pigs”.
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September 2nd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
It is not surprising that girls are being harmed by the Gardasil vaccine, as it contains two toxic substances.
Polysorbate 80 – which can cause women to become infertile.
and,
Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxyphosphate Sulfate – in a study using mice was found to cause inflammation and neuronal apoptosis in the primary motor cortex – it killed brain cells.
September 6th, 2010 at 5:30 am
My daughter was severely injured by the Gardasil vaccine and was recently diagnosed pre-menopausal. Obviously no surprise to the poster above (Mr. Langford). She had severe side effects post-vaccination including hair loss, migraines, dehydration, pneumonia, and others. I have many stories of girls harmed by this vaccine and yet it continues to be on the market. Why? Big Pharma and the CDC and FDA are corrupt and there are many evil people in the world. Don’t be naive - do your research.
March 1st, 2011 at 11:39 am
In case you anti-vax paranoiacs can’t read, the causes of the deaths were not the vaccines. “The cause of deaths was determined as viral fever, drowning, suicide, severe anaemia with malaria and suspected snake bite.”
September 3rd, 2011 at 6:54 pm
There are numerous and important unanswered questions regarding Gardasil.
DOES GARDASIL CAUSE BRAIN DAMAGE?
In drug targeting polysorbate 80/Tween 80 is used to assist in the delivery of certain drugs (especially psychiatric, nano-drugs or chemotherapeutic agents) across the blood-brain barrier and into the brain tissue. Polysorbates act by rendering the barrier more porous (“open it up”).
The obvious deduction is that this is likely to happen regarding vaccines.
In Gardasil there is the risk of passage being facilitated of neurotoxic aluminium and other substances crossing the blood-brain barrier and gaining contact with the brain tissue. Aluminium does not belong in the brain!
Many young girls have died after Gardasil vaccines. Autopsies rarely if ever include investigation of brain tissue. This may be of paramount importance towards revealing the truth about this vaccine.
DOES GARDASIL CAUSE CANCER?
It is not known whether the ingredients in Gardasil are carcinogenic. Information in the package insert states that the vaccine is not tested for carcinogenicity.
In addition, there is the issue of “replacement”, a normal phenomenon in virology where strains which have been removed are always replaced by new ones. It is not known whether the new virus strains are more carcinogenic than the original ones which have been removed.
In other words, it may be most inappropriate to term Gardasil a “cancer vaccine” as it may actually increase the risk of cancer.