The HPV vaccine scam

CONSUMERS DEMAND!
Herman Tiu Laurel
7/4-7/10/2011

I have to shift my column theme from “Critics’ Critic” to “Consumers’ Demand” as critical developments in the consumer welfare sector are crying for immediate attention.

There is a new Big Pharma scam going on.  It involves an aggressive marketing campaign on millions of innocent consumers who are being peddled an exorbitantly priced, unnecessary, and even potentially harmful vaccine.

The last time Big Pharma committed this atrocity was in April 2009 when it sensationally engineered the “Swine flu outbreak” in Mexico that allegedly killed hundreds but later declared severely exaggerated, given the final estimates that placed deaths at only a few dozens.

Such a scare led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic and predict “millions of deaths.”

But one year and eight months later, in December 2010, several science and technology sites such as PhysOrg.com merely reported that swine flu “has killed 163 people out of almost 36,000 cases reported in 76 countries, according to the WHO.

Ad Brainwashing
Worldwide, seasonal flu death, according to WHO statistics, ranges from 250,000 to 500,000.

This makes the total swine flu deaths miniscule in comparison. Yet the WHO pandemic scare pushed governments into spending billions of dollars in totally useless drugs like Tamiflu – this, even as such drugs proved to be ineffective, with harmful side effects such as delirium as well as suicidal tendencies to boot.

Tamiflu, for one, was later revealed to have been manufactured by biopharmaceutical firm, Gilead Sciences, where former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had substantial shares.

It is the same company that produces the poison Aspartame that many consumers swallow willingly (because of ad brainwashing).

GMA bought Billions
As billions worth of swine flu vaccines were sold amid panic vaccination campaigns across the globe, Gloria Arroyo also bought billions of these.

Regular flu vaccines were simultaneously promoted, with many still being misled into accepting their efficacy, despite studies proving the contrary.

We’ll quote just one among thousands of such studies – this one from ProgressiveHealth.com:

“Cochrane Collaboration, a non-profit group that reviews scientific evidence… published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews examined studies of health care workers vaccinations between 1997 and 2009.

“Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada analyzed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other studies assessing healthcare workers vaccination and effectiveness against influenza illness in elderly nursing home residents.

“The researchers found that vaccinating healthcare nursing home workers had no impact on confirmed flu cases among elderly residents.  Furthermore, vaccination did not affect the number of pneumonia-linked cases or deaths.  ‘We conclude there is no evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers prevents influenza in elderly residents in long-term care facilities…’”

‘Pimping’ a Vaccine
Then, it went on to say that EU Health Minister Wolfgang Woodard investigated WHO and found that “governments were ‘threatened’ by… the pharmaceutical industry as well as the WHO to buy the vaccines and inject their populations without any reasonable scientific reason for doing so…”

A few weeks ago, I noticed an increase in the tempo of the marketing campaign to get Filipinas young and old to shell out anywhere between P1,500 to P 3,000 for their own HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccination.
It was around that time that I saw this ad with Kris Aquino promoting the HPV vaccine.

Then, after seeing a number of billboards along EDSA offering HPV vaccinations at a cosmetic surgeon’s chain of clinics, I decided to surf the Net and saw a quote lifted by interactive magazine site Zimbio from celebritypulp.com melding Kris’ denial of her rumored pregnancy and her trip to her OB-GYN supposedly for “…the cervical cancer screening… (but also) to pimp some cervical cancer vaccine.”

Why the term “pimp” was used is already striking in itself.  Could this be the attitude these people take on such a serious issue?

No Efficacy Trials
The scare that HPV causes cancer has now been created that even some of the most intelligent women I know are rushing headlong to have it, feeling that they owe it to their body and well-being to do so – without realizing that they may just find their health (and pockets) compromised.

From the Natural Family Blog comes this report of an HPV vaccine researcher who dropped a bombshell: “Sunday, October 25, 2009; Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15…

“Dr. Harper began her remarks by explaining that 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year.

“Within two years, the number climbs to 90 percent.  Of the remaining 10 percent of HPV infections, only half will develop into cervical cancer, which leaves little need for the vaccine… stating that the incidence of cervical cancer in the US is already so low that ‘even if we get the vaccine and continue PAP screening, we will not lower the rate of cervical cancer in the US.’"


Adverse Reaction
The report further said: “Since the drug’s introduction in 2006, the public has been learning many of these facts the hard way.  To date, 15,037 girls have officially reported adverse side effects from Gardasil to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).  These adverse reactions include Guillain–Barré, lupus, seizures, paralysis, blood clots, brain inflammation and many others.  The CDC acknowledges that there have been 44 reported deaths.

“Dr. Harper also participated in the research on GlaxoSmithKline’s version of the drug, Cervarix… Since the government began administering the vaccine to school-aged girls last year, more than 2,000 patients reported some kind of adverse reaction…

“The most tragic case involved a 14 year-old girl who dropped dead in the corridor of her school an hour after receiving the vaccination… (Dr. Harper) also weighed in last month on a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that raised questions about the safety of the vaccine, saying bluntly: ‘The rate of serious adverse events is greater than the incidence rate of cervical cancer.’”

Huge Rip-Off
Dr. James Howenstine’s article, “Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine Fraud,” enumerates the arguments against HPV vaccines:

“• HPV vaccine increases the risk of developing a precancerous cervical lesion by 44.6 percent in women previously infected with a HPV viral type found in the vaccine.

“• HPV virus does not cause cervical cancer.

“• HPV viral infections are self-limiting and are not a health threat to healthy females.

“• This valuable information about the etiology of HPV viral infections has been suppressed from public knowledge.

“• Allowing untruths about Gardasil to be disseminated in public hearings and planting fear have been used to promote sales of this worthless vaccine.”

It is thus the duty of media to bring the full story of the HPV vaccine to the public, and expose the snake oil salesmen peddling this huge rip-off.

The hefty amounts individuals shell out for such worthless, if not dangerous, vaccines would be enough for several months of fresh leafy greens and natural health remedies like turmeric, garlic, lemon grass, and virgin coconut oil (VCO) to naturally boost the body’s immune system.

Readers are therefore urged to do their own reading on the Internet about this; and not just rely on advertisements and celebrity endorsers for their health and well-being.

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