Friday 2 March 2012

Gardasil - A vaccine to far with a GM element!

To the parents or guardians of all young girls and if MERCK get their way, boys as well, view the Gardasil vaccine as highly suspicious. A vaccine with a GM element, fast tracked and MERCK wanting to almost give it away to poorer nations.....Its track record in the states is one with too many horror stories...just remember that if the horror story is your child, is that an acceptable risk?? This vaccine is due to replace the GSK vaccine of Cervarix  in September in the UK, why are we not making a fuss about this, why does it have such a low profile in the media??
It is a costly vaccine and does it have proven effectiveness over a good old fashioned smear test? I doubt it! It doesn't cover all forms of HPV by any means and you can carry this and never develop cancer or not carry it and develop it! Let’s stick with a smear test and not put the health of our young people at risk.
We don't know the effect of GM ingredients on our systems through food, never mind in a vaccine! If ever there is something to avoid, it has to be GM and this vaccine in particular.
As parents, our fear for our children gets played on by the health service who have the might of the drug companies breathing down them, let’s not be at the bottom of a fear based chain that has nothing to do with health.
HPV vaccines may well be one step too far, check the evidence from the US, ignore the statistics that can never prove or disprove a negative anyway and don't let your child be the 'acceptable risk'
If we are to have vaccines - make them safe - just check what else goes into that vaccine - you probably wouldn't want it then!  We don't want them fast tracked and we don't need them with any connection to GM
Lastly remember that drug companies have shareholders, they are businesses and desperate to make their money, after all that is what we expect businesses to do, do we not?  Let it not be to the detriment of our children!

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