The Gardasil sales pitch is complete — the shot is now recommended for all girls and boys

Safe words

The time has come.

We suspected it would…and it has.

It’s time to lock up your sons.

Just days ago, American Academy of Pediatrics officials expanded their HPV vaccine recommendations to include boys 11 years of age and older.

This is truly awful news. It means that huge numbers of pediatricians will now routinely include Gardasil as part of the regular schedule of vaccines, practically painting a target on the arms of every 6th grader in the U.S. — male and female..

But what about that ugly list of Gardasil safety issues?

No problem! Reuters Health will just make them go away.

Here’s how a Reuters Health article handled it: “U.S. health regulators have found no serious side effects apart from soreness at the injection site.”

Unbelievable! And that ridiculous sentence is followed by this quote from an AAP official: “This definitely is a very safe vaccine.”

See what they’re doing? If you say something false over and over again, pretty soon it begins to sound sort of true.

Stepping into no man’s land

Parents who somehow get the impression that Gardasil is definitely very safe might be a little surprised when their pediatrician (if he’s responsible) tells them that after each injection, their child needs to sit or lie down and be closely observed for 15 minutes before leaving the office.

Here’s why: Apart from soreness at the injection site, dizziness, nausea, and fainting are among the most common adverse events immediately after a Gardasil injection.

But here’s the catch: Once the child steps foot out of the doctor’s office, well, then you’re on your own, boys and girls (and mothers and fathers).

As I’ve mentioned before, hundreds of healthy kids and young adults have experienced very serious adverse reactions within hours or days after receiving Gardasil shots. These reactions include blood clots, seizures, convulsions, muscle spasms, speech disorders, vomiting, blurred vision, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (a central nervous system disorder), muscle weakness, and migraine headaches.

Many of these kids required hospitalization, and as of September 2011, 71 of them have died.

See…it’s obvious… This definitely is a very safe vaccine!

All of these events were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). But the CDC dismisses these severe reactions with this disclaimer: “VAERS data cannot be used to prove a causal association between the vaccine and the adverse event.”

See how it works? Once a child leaves the pediatrician’s office, any adverse reaction is reported to VAERS and disappears into the “cannot be used to prove a causal association” loophole.

And that’s how Reuters Health says with (presumably) a straight face, that soreness at the injection site is really about as bad as it gets.

This breezy falsehood will help convince millions of unsuspecting parents that an entire population of U.S. kids — from 11 years old to their early 20s — should be given these potentially dangerous shots.

It’s medical insanity and it’s utterly disgraceful.

You can find more information about Gardasil’s glaring problems here.

Sources: 
“Group backs HPV shot recommendation for boys” Frederik Joelving, Reuters Health, 2/27/12, reutershealth.com