Top Cervical Cancer Vaccine Researcher Warns About Dangers
Lyle Loughry
October 08, 2009

Dr. Diane Harper, the director of Dartmouth's Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group, is one of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both Gardasil and Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines. Dr. Harper is one of the most experienced researchers in the world on Human Papilloma Virus-related diseases. She joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine’s risk-versus-benefit profile, and warns about their safety and effectiveness.

Recently, she did an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express in the UK where she candidly admitted the vaccine doesn't prevent cervical cancer, stating, "The vaccine will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all." In stating this, Dr. Harper destroyed the highly-promoted myth that cervical cancer vaccines do prevent cervical cancer. She's worked for both Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

This isn't the first time this courageous researcher has spoken out. In a New York Times article published last year, Dr. Harper spoke about the fear-based marketing of Gardasil by Merck:

"'Merck lobbied every opinion leader, women's group, medical society, politicians, and went directly to the people -- it created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now..."

Dr. Harper's warnings about cervical cancer vaccines are especially significant, given her expertise in the cost/benefit analysis of vaccines. It's her opinion that cervical cancer vaccines aren't worth the risks, nor are they worth all the effort being put into hyping them to the public. "This may not be the best use of our resources at this time," she said in a Washington Post article.

She also warned that the cervical cancer vaccine was being "over-marketed" and that parents should be warned about the possible risk of severe side effects from the vaccine. She even concluded that the vaccine itself is more dangerous than the cervical cancer it claims to prevent!

Dr. Harper told CBS news there is no data showing that the vaccine even remains effective beyond five years. That means that if a ten year old girl is given the vaccine and subjected to possibly serious and even life-threatening side effects, the vaccine may offer her no protection at all when she hits her teens or young adulthood. She also told the interviewer that young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.

"The risks of serious adverse events, including death, reported after Gardasil use in the JAMA article by CDC’s Dr. Barbara Slade were 3.4/100,000 doses distributed. The rate of serious adverse events is on par with the death rate of cervical cancer. Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year. However, the risks of vaccination are underreported in Dr. Slade's article, as they are based on a denominator of doses distributed from Merck's warehouse.

Not all deaths that have been reported were represented in her work (one-third of the death reports were unavailable to the CDC), leaving the parents of the deceased teenagers in despair that the CDC is ignoring the very rare but real occurrences that need not have happened if parents were given information stating that there are real, but small risks of death surrounding the administration of Gardasil."

As just reported by CBS news, the teenage daughter of physician Scott Ratner and his wife was one of the unfortunate girls who became severely ill with a chronic autoimmune disease, myofasciitis, after her first dose of Gardasil. Dr. Ratner told CBS his daughter was so ill with the neurological problem, "she'd have been better off getting cervical cancer than the vaccination. My daughter went from a varsity lacrosse player at Choate to a chronically ill, steroid-dependent patient with autoimmune myofasciitis. I’ve had to ask myself why I let my eldest of three daughters get an unproven vaccine against a few strains of a nonlethal virus that can be dealt with in more effective ways.”

Using fear tactics to sell drugs by promoting a particular disease is not new with Big Pharma. It's known as disease mongering. Most of their huge profits are generated by utilizing this very tactic. Henry Ford used to say that finding a need, and filling the need was the sure way to success. But, Big Pharma goes one big step further. They create an imagined need, spread fear among healthy people who aren't suffering from any disease at all, and then sell the treatment to this contrived need. To them, this beats just selling drugs to sick people, right? With enough money, lobbyists, and friends in high political places (FDA), you can always overcome scientific thinking with fear-based marketing and under-the-table deal-making. Science-based medicine seems to have no place in a world where disease is such big business.

In August of this year (2009), a study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that the HPV vaccine has unexpectedly caused episodes of fainting and life-threatening blood clots. In fact, in a statement to the media, these events were called "disproportional" -- meaning these side effects are anything but rare. What's more, among the 12,424 adverse reaction reports about the HPV vaccine, 772 (6.2 percent) were serious and included 32 reports of death.

Other problems caused by the vaccine include local site reactions, skin rashes, nausea, dizziness, headaches and even Guillain-Barre syndrome (a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system sometimes causing paralysis) and anaphylaxis (hypersensitivity reaction that can cause sudden death).

The cold hard truth is that, under the ruse of attempting to eradicate cervical cancer, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries have chosen to experiment with the first ever, large scale application of a new, unproven, genetically modified, inter-species gene mixing vaccine technology on the female youth of an entire generation.

In reality, the wide spread promotion and attempts to mandate the use of this drug in the United States has very little to do with preventing deaths from cervical cancer! The vaccine has only been approved in the U.S. for use with girls age 9-26, ages when deaths from cervical cancer rarely, if ever, happen. Cervical cancer has been steadily decreasing in the U.S. since 1955.

According to The American Cancer Society, "cervical cancer death rate declined by 74% between 1955 and 1992. The main reason for this change is the increased use of the Pap test which can not only detect changes in the cervix before cancer develops, but can also find early cervical cancer in its most curable stage. The death rate from cervical cancer continues to decline by nearly 4% a year. Cervical cancer tends to occur in mid-life. Most cases of cervical cancer are found in women younger than 50, but rarely in women younger than 20.

What makes the debate about Gradualism crazy to begin with is that studies have shown 70 to 90 percent of people with HPR naturally clear the virus from the body within two years of infection -- with no help from drugs or vaccines.

The JAMA report referred to earlier nevertheless defends the integrity of the vaccine when they state, "the Gardisil adverse events reported have been mostly consistent with data gathered before the vaccine was considered safe enough to be widely administered to young girls." Can you believe it?

For additional information on dangerous vaccines on this website,  listen to a powerful, disturbing, June 2007 interview entitled The Truth About Vaccines in the Recorded Interviews, Archive section and consider these additional articles, The Flawed Vaccination Theory, Health Experts Sound Off About Vaccinations, and The Truth About Flu Shots which can can be found in this Featured Health Articles section. I recommend them highly.

Vaccines are just another way that so-called "modern medicine" can harm you. You owe it to yourself, and your family, to learn as much as you can about them.

If you're interested in learning about safe, effective alternatives to dangerous vaccines, you can contact me at ultrahealth@cs.com, or 800-829-9913.

   

   

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