UK School Girl May Have Died Of Cervical Cancer Vaccination

I keep up this grim research here, all about vaccinations, because it is important and I am curious, not doctrinaire.  The latest news that the new vaccination for cervical cancer may (note the word here) have caused the death of a school girl is something we must heed.  If this is true, then the vaccination should be examined more closely or withdrawn.  By the way, this is VERY UNUSUAL for vaccinations.  This is why one death makes the news.

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Nothing on this planet is ever perfect.  People who demand perfection get really gross messes.  That is, if we forbid something because it has a one in a million chance of not working, we would have no systems at all, no medicines and nothing operational.  But the GOAL should be as close to perfection as humanly possible.  Keeping this in mind is important: it forces people to improve things over and over again instead of passively waiting.  Humans have existed while living in nihilism for many generations.  It is only when we have swift technological and sociological changes, do we have the desire for perfection.

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For example, people passively lived in many cultures with very primitive medical care, accepting massive child deaths as well as mostly a short life, usually less than 50 years.  Thanks to modern medicine and science, the death rate of babies is vanishingly small in civilized places and the longevity rates for adults has passed 80 years in some countries.  I remember when it was very rare for someone to reach 80 years of age!  Now, it is quite common.  Nonetheless, it is disheartening to hear that some child died due to a failure of the medical system.  And this is important news.

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14-year-old dies after being given cervical cancer jab – Telegraph

The teenager was one of four classmates who suffered side-effects at a school in Coventry after receiving the jab as part of the national immunisation programme.

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The other girls suffered dizziness and nausea after being injected with Cervarix, which guards against the human papilloma virus (HPV), but did not need hospital treatment. The batch of vaccine has since been quarantined and the Medicines and Health care products Regulatory Agency is investigating….

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…The HPV virus is a sexually transmitted infection that causes up to seven in 10 cervical cancer cases. It is thought the 14-year-old’s death is the first linked to the jab since the nationwide vaccination commenced last year. The Cervarix vaccine is being distributed to all schoolgirls aged 12 and over as part of the national campaign. By 2011 all girls under 18 will have been offered the jab. Ministers say the scheme will ultimately save 700 lives a year.

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If the death rate is one in a million, this is bad.  One in 700 is totally unacceptable.  Now, as per usual here, I thought it would be good to go visit a number of websites to get full information.  I mostly use mainstream websites for the simple reason, if they give out erroneous information, we can go after them. In general, these sites strive to give as much information as possible, believe it or not.  So first, off to see what this disease is:

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STD Facts – Human papillomavirus (HPV)

HPV infection. Approximately 20 million Americans are currently infected with HPV, and another 6.2 million people become newly infected each year. At least 50% of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.

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Genital warts. About 1% of sexually active adults in the U.S. have genital warts at any one time.

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Cervical cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2008, 11,070 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer in the U.S.

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Other HPV-related cancers are much less common than cervical cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2008, there will be:

• 3,460 women diagnosed with vulvar cancer;
• 2,210 women diagnosed with vaginal and other female genital cancers;
• 1,250 men diagnosed with penile and other male genital cancers; and
• 3,050 women and 2,020 men diagnosed with anal cancer.

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Certain populations may be at higher risk for HPV-related cancers, such as gay and bisexual men, and individuals with weak immune systems (including those who have HIV/AIDS).

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RRP is very rare. It is estimated that less than 2,000 children get RRP every year.

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A vaccine can now protect females from the four types of HPV that cause most cervical cancers and genital warts. The vaccine is recommended for 11 and 12 year-old girls. It is also recommended for girls and women age 13 through 26 who have not yet been vaccinated or completed the vaccine series.

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For those who choose to be sexually active, condoms may lower the risk of HPV, if used all the time and the right way. Condoms may also lower the risk of developing HPV-related diseases, such as genital warts and cervical cancer. But HPV can infect areas that are not covered by a condom—so condoms may not fully protect against HPV.  So the only sure way to prevent HPV is to avoid all sexual activity.

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Individuals can also lower their chances of getting HPV by being in a mutually faithful relationship with someone who has had no or few sex partners. However, even people with only one lifetime sex partner can get HPV, if their partner was infected with HPV. For those who are not in long-term mutually monogamous relationships, limiting the number of sex partners and choosing a partner less likely to be infected may lower the risk of HPV. Partners less likely to be infected include those who have had no or few prior sex partners. But it may not be possible to determine if a partner who has been sexually active in the past is currently infected.

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Humans are part of the ape family.  This group of animals is very prone to running around, having fun with sex.  Sex is recreation, that is, with not only the primates but many of the members of this extended family.  Anyone working with or observing apes knows that sex is an important form of entertainment with these animals and in humans, it is doubly so.  We can’t help it: we love sex, obsess about sex and if we try to avoid it, we fall into even more sexual fantasies.  For example, a number of female saints in the Catholic church had very expressive sexual encounters with various divinities going all the way back to the young mother of Jesus who got pregnant via magical god systems.

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So germs find this business to be a very good way of making their own way in the world.  Germs like systems that are warm, wet and promiscuous.  Humans are very promiscuous and even has had cross-sexual relations with other apes not to mention, sheep and other animals.  Ahem.  Yes, humans will play games with nearly anything that can be nailed down.  This is a very deep imperative for us.

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So asking us to not have sex is nearly impossible.  Since sex is nearly impossible to avoid and since loyalty to each other is nearly impossible (often, it seems as if someone is loyal but then we find out this isn’t true at all) we have to deal with communicable diseases connected with this sort of social activity.  Note that 50% of the population has exposure to the HPV diseases. Which are not one disease but are, like most viral infections, a complex family of related diseases.  For one thing viruses are really good at is mutations.  Evolution works well with them, they are one of the oldest things on earth that can multiply and divide.

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FDA Advisory Committee makes favorable recommendation for Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline’s candidate cervical cancer vaccine

The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2009, in the U.S. approximately 11,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and 4,000 women will die from the disease. Worldwide, more than 500,000 women will be newly diagnosed with cervical cancer and 280,000 women will die from it each year.

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OK: we have to keep a number in mind here.  That is,  over a quarter million women die of this virus every year. This is a big number.  It is not a piffling number.  There are an astonishing number of people who think, this sort of thing is immaterial.  It is not immaterial.  IF there is a good vaccine that would prevent these awful and painful deaths, deaths of mothers who then leave orphans to fend for themselves, then this is a good thing.  Let’s get more data here:

FDA backs new cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix – Sexual health- msnbc.com

Sept . 9, 2009

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WASHINGTON – Federal health officials said Wednesday a long-delayed vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline successfully blocks the leading virus that causes cervical cancer in women. The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine panel voted overwhelmingly that the vaccine Cervarix appears safe and effective for girls and women ages 10 to 25. If the FDA follows the group’s advice, Glaxo would begin competing against Merck’s vaccine Gardasil, which has controlled the U.S. market since 2006.

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First off, we should be very happy that drug companies are anxious to develop vaccinations that work.  They do NOT want to develop ones that don’t work for obvious reasons.  Despite some hysteria in certain quarters (ahem) if a drug company made a virus that killed people, it would not have very many customers. I have enjoyed the protection of quite a few different vaccinations over the course of my long life so I happen to be rather fond of these medical miracles.  But this doesn’t mean that the vaccinations are always working exactly as advertised!  Just like aspirin didn’t work perfectly.  It was considered a miracle drug until people figured out, YEARS LATER, that it has a downside.

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For example, I can’t take aspirin due to using it too much in my youth (I was raped as a child and suffered considerable physical pain due to the internal damage….now, my stomach can’t take it at all!)—if you take it too much, you can have internal bleeding, stomach ulcers (hello!) and mini-strokes.  On the other hand, using aspirin type medicines helps in high fevers, headaches, arthritis and other ailments.  So we live with the downside because it is better than living in the raw, being hammered by serious pain and suffering.

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Now, again, as USUAL here, I go visit the home corporation in the above story.  GlaxoSmithKline is a conglomerate that is international.  Now, it seems that vaccinations are very much controlled by governments!  Surprise!  And each has its own rules and regulations…another big surprise.  And even greater surprise: they don’t match each other at all.  Each has its own systems, history and situations.  Please remember this fact when going to non-mainstream sites that claim that ‘they’ are shoving vaccinations down our throats to kill us.  This is utterly ridiculous.

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What is interesting is how the UK has a MUCH longer list of vaccinations that were OKed by the government there!  I never ask people to believe anything I say without trying to give the raw data.  So below is the GSK list for vaccines in the UK versus vaccinations in the US:

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UK trademarks – Vaccines – GlaxoSmithKline

Vaccines

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The following list includes our major vaccines in the United Kingdom. If you click on the brand name, you can view a copy of the Patient Information Leaflet for this vaccine. This information is for UK residents only.

UK Trademark

Generic

• ACWY Vax
• meningococcal polysaccharides serogroups A, C, W135 and Y
• Ambirix
• Hepatitis A (inactivated) and hepatitis B (rDNA) (HAB) vaccine (adsorbed)




• Human Papillomavirus vaccine (types 16, 18) – recombinant, adjuvanted, adsorbed
• Engerix-B
• Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant)
• Fendrix
• Hepatitis B (rDNA) vaccine (adjuvanted, adsorbed
• Fluarix
• influenza vaccine
• Havrix
• hepatitis A vaccine, inactivated
• Hepatyrix
• Hepatitis A (inactivated, adsorbed) and Typhoid Polysaccharide vaccine
• Infanrix
• diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed
• Infanrix IPV
• diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (acellular, component) and poliomyelitis (inactivated) vaccine (adsorbed)
• Infanrix IPV + HIB
• diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (acellular, component) and poliomyelitis (inactivated) and Haemophilus influenzae serotype b conjugate vaccine (adsorbed)
• Menitorix
• combined Haemophilus influenzae type b and Neisseria meningitidis group C (Hib-MenC) conjugate vaccines
• Poliomyelitis
• poliomyelitis monodose vaccine live (oral)
• Priorix
• measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (live attenuated virus)
• Rotarix
• human rotavirus vaccine, live attenuated
• Twinrix
• combined hepatitis A (inactivated virus) and hepatitis B vaccine (genetically derived surface antigen)
• Typherix
• typhoid vaccine (purified polysaccharide antigen)
• Varilrix
• varicella in healthy adults and adolescents

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US Trademark

Generic

• Boostrix
• tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine, adsorbed
• Engerix-B
• hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant)
• Fluarix
• influenza vaccine
• FluLaval
• influenza vaccine
• Havrix
• hepatitis A vaccine, inactivated
• Hiberix
• haemophilus B conjugate vaccine (tetanus toxoid conjugate)
• Infanrix
• diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed
• Kinrix
• diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed and inactivated poliovirus vaccine
• Pediarix
• diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, hepatitis B (recombinant) and inactivated poliovirus vaccine combined
• Rotarix
• rotavirus vaccine, live, oral
• Twinrix
• combined hepatitis A (inactivated virus) and hepatitis B vaccine (genetically derived surface antigen)

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Cervarix

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18 vaccinations for the Brits and only 12 for the US!  If we look at these lists above, we see that many of these vaccinations are for the same diseases but are in different doses as well as combinations of doses.  This is so doctors can pick and choose which ones are best for their patients.  Believe it or not, doctors are not all demons out to steal our souls.  Nor are they Frankensteins.

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I am absolutely certain that GSK’s scientists and researchers are all going crazy tonight over the news from Britain!  They will not rest until they track down all the details and then go over the entire business with a very fine-toothed comb.  Now, on to a related topic, contraceptives.  I have tremendous experiences with contraceptives.  For my surgeon gave me the earliest form of birth control pills in 1963 when I was a child, just to get my periods to work right again.

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Health Concerns Are Raised Over Use of Popular Contraceptives – NYTimes.com

Yaz, in particular, the top-selling birth control pill in the United States, owes much of its popularity to multimillion-dollar ad campaigns that have promoted the drug as a quality-of-life treatment to combat acne and severe premenstrual depression. Yaz, a newer sister drug to Yasmin, contains less estrogen. The franchise had worldwide sales of about $1.8 billion last year, based on Bayer’s successful positioning of Yasmin and Yaz as the go-to drug brands for women under 35. But recently, the Yaz line’s image has been clouded by concerns from some researchers, health advocates and plaintiffs’ lawyers. They say that the drugs put women at higher risk for blood clots, strokes and other health problems than some other birth control pills do.

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EVERY innovation with hormones that prevent pregnancy are always greeted with joy and then, as the many downside parts appear, people then go searching for another nostrum.  I remember well, how sick my own pills made me!  I was very sick from it.  When I went to Germany three years later, at 16, a German doctor who was a woman was horrified when she saw the pills my doctor in America gave me!  She said, ‘The dose is much too high for you!’ And she gave me much better pills.  And gave me a three year amount of pills, saying, ‘Americans are far behind us in this business.  You will be unable to get good medicine in the US.’

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And this is certainly true.  The fears and phobias in this country never ceases to amaze me.  Especially in the area of birth control.  One of the problems of the oldest US birth control pills was bleeding.  I had to worry about this.  I tried other methods over the years and some were beastly, just beastly.  But then, getting an abortion in the US is also beastly hard to do.  Making abortions easier is the best solution.  But we won’t see that any time soon.  Nope, not at all.  So we stumble along, limping into the 21st century.

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Now, on to the very pesky topic of flu shots.  Now, I have had these for YEARS with no problems at all, not even slightly.  Compared to my struggles with birth control, it is so nice!  But then, for many Americans this is a topic as fearful as birth control issues.  So let’s look at the latest news here and don’t hate me for talking about this matter:

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Most parents won’t have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds — latimes.com

In a poll of 1,678 U.S. parents conducted by the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, 40% said they would get their children immunized against the H1N1 virus — even as 54% indicated they would get their kids vaccinated against regular seasonal flu. Among those who said they do not intend to have their kids vaccinated against H1N1, almost half — 46% — indicated they’re not worried about their children becoming ill with the pandemic virus. Twenty percent said they do not believe the H1N1 flu is a serious disease.

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There were differences along racial and ethnic lines in parents’ responses, which were collected Aug. 13 to Aug. 31. More than half of Latino parents said they would bring their kids to get vaccinated against H1N1. Among white parents, 38% said they would do so. African American parents were the least inclined to vaccinate: 30% said they planned to do so.

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When I first talked about this disease, I was shocked to see so many readers get angry when I was merely talking normally.  I thought, if I came  up with some bizarre conspiracy theory about disease or vaccinations, people would be angry.  But since then,  I have learned that there is a huge community that seriously fears vaccinations for a wide variety of reasons.  This puzzles me.  But then, I recall my lifelong battle on behalf of women’s contraceptives and it doesn’t puzzle me so much, these days.

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So, the real question here is, why do Hispanic people not fear this vaccination?  And the answer is obvious: they have intimate experience in their own lives with pandemics!  And this latest one came first in Mexico, near a mega-pig farm, no less.  Asians have no problem with vaccinations for the same reasons.  The last major flu pandemic to hit the US was the Hong Kong flu and it didn’t hit us like it hit China and the rest of Asia.  I got it from someone who came through Hong Kong, for example.

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It nearly killed me.  So my fear of pandemics is very strong and quite personal.  People who minimize this disease are doing so based on the fact that during the summer, it wasn’t so virulent.  But these viral surges get much stronger in the Northern Hemisphere in the fall and winter and the leaves on the trees outside my door are changing.  And the flu is resurgent.

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My feeling here is, the US is overdue for some form of punishing event.  This saddens me a great deal.  Already, a number of children have died of this disease.  But the fears of vaccinations are so great now, as diseases vanish or fade due to good inoculation programs, we will have to learn the hard way, that the alternative to vaccinations is a lot of deaths.

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Mandatory Flu Shots Hit Resistance – washingtonpost.com

With the H1N1 pandemic spreading rapidly, hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, orderlies and other U.S. health-care workers for the first time are being required to get flu shots, drawing praise from many public-health authorities but condemnation from some employees, unions and other critics who object to mandatory vaccination….

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…The trend is being fueled by frustration at the stubbornly low proportion of health-care workers who get vaccinated each year despite years of coaxing, urging and incentives to do so voluntarily, combined with trepidation that the swine flu pandemic could overwhelm the health-care system, especially if many caregivers get sick, too. Critics, however, say the decision to get vaccinated should remain individual, especially for the swine flu vaccine, which was rushed into production to try to blunt the pandemic’s second wave.

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This is very aggravating news!  If adults don’t get hurt very much by this disease but CHILDREN DIE, it behooves any adults working around vulnerable, sickly children to be vaccinated so they won’t spread these germs to these children!  Got that?  It is sadly, very simple to figure out.  If one cares about children, that is.

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If a nurse who thinks vaccinations might upset her routine then goes to work slightly sick and coughs on a child she is treating and then that child dies, this is something nasty.  Like, murder.  When I had the Hong Kong flu, I had to be put in isolation.  And afterwards, I had to be in isolation so people with other diseases like the common cold, would not get me sick since even a slight infection would be fatal.

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In general, going about a hospital, spitting germs on all and sundry is nasty.  Evil, even. I would think that anyone who is paranoid would worry about this!!!!  After all, when germs were first understood and discovered, many doctors and nurses still refused to even wash hands!  And face masks were not put on until the hideous 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic was killing MILLIONS of people!

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We hope and pray that millions won’t die of this latest incarnation.  But letting doctors and nurses pick and choose which regimens they should follow when taking care of ill people is lunacy.  There has to be rules and regulations or no one will follow any protocols!  This is the reality of how we run any systems.

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