Note from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal:

www.IlenaRose.blogspot.com

This is scandalous. And those of you promoting this drug here on
Usenet are simply the low rung of the pharmaceutical PR  industry.
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/Snake-oil.htm
Barrett & Probert & David 'Ora'c Gorski & others pushing this
Snake-oil

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/fda-favors-drug-co-over-public-safety

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 15:31 — Judicial Watch Blog

Catering to a powerful drug company, the government agency responsible
for protecting public health and safety will expedite expanded
approval of a controversial cervical cancer vaccine already linked to
the deaths of nearly a dozen girls and serious adverse reactions in
thousands of others.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will speed up its own process
to expand the use of Gardasil, manufactured by pharmaceutical giant
Merck, from its current approved use in females ages 9 to 26 up to the
age of 45. The vaccine has been promoted as a sort of miracle shot
that can prevent certain strains of cervical cancer caused by Human
Papillomavirus (HPV).

The reality is that is has been linked to at least a dozen deaths
nationwide and thousands of adverse reactions, many of them as
critical as paralysis and other serious circulatory problems. Rather
than fulfill its duty by warning the public of the vaccine’s
potentially serious and deadly consequences, the FDA concealed it for
more than a year.

Through the Freedom of Information Act Judicial Watch forced the
agency to make public the alarming Gardasil Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System (VAERS) that lists information about the young
victims nationwide. The agency in charge of protecting them didn’t
seem terribly interested in exposing the vaccine’s dangers while Merck
conducted its aggressive advertising and lobbying campaign to make it
mandatory for school-aged girls.

Two states—Texas and Michigan—have already passed laws making Gardasil
mandatory for girls ages 11 and 12 and other state and local
governments are considering similar legislation. This is outrageous
considering the controversy surrounding the vaccine, which was
approved by the FDA in June 2006.

Now the agency is hurrying up to approve broader use of the vaccine,
which no doubt comes with major profits. Gardasil already had
fourth-quarter global sales of $339 million, boosting Merck’s total
global vaccine revenue to $1.1 billion. It wouldn’t be surprising if
the FDA brass is in bed with Merck. After all, top officials at the
agency have for years violated federal disclosure laws by concealing
meetings with influential drug company executives, lobbyists and
patient groups.

The FDA has also faced a series of scandals involving its failure to
enforce many federal laws because it would negatively affect the
profits of the wealthy companies that pay it hundreds of millions of
dollars in “fees.” The appalling negligence has even been documented
in a scathing congressional report that confirms the FDA allows
companies that annually pay it more than $400 million in fees to
compromise public safety.