Very little has appalled me as much as the recent explosion on the internet of the girls suffering from the severe effects of the HPV vaccine Gardasil. Some side effects that have been listed are as follows: stomach paralysis, neurological issues, chronic pain, and varying degrees of skin disorders. Now every medicine has its side effects, as everyone knows, since even Advil can kill you (it can eat through the lining of your stomach). The scary part about this is the fact it has only been out for nine years (a very short time for any effects such as cancer to take root) and that there is already such a backlash of people with side effects. There have already been 32 deaths caused by the drug and of the people who REPORT and REALIZE that the drug caused the health problems, 8% of people have serious side effects. Again it doesn't sound so bad, but this is strictly limited to those who report their issues and those are only the short term effects. It has gotten to the point where the European Union is actually investigating it, even though this vaccine shouldn't even exist considering the only thing needed to protect against HPV is a condom. It is only a way to make money and the heavy campaigning done for this vaccine is indicative of this.
Now I'm sure many of you have complete or at least partial faith in the FDA to release drugs that aren't going to kill you, but the harsh reality is that they actually test on humans indirectly. Rats and mice are the newest test subjects for the FDA and have immune systems completely different from our own; what we used to test on were dogs and monkeys which is at least in the ballpark of humans. I know that sounds horrible to test on Fido, but the alternative is to release drugs that pass by a rodent's immune system and then see if complications arise. If they do, they pull the drug but only after hundreds of people will suffer through an unrealized testing trial that they paid to be a part of.
Take Depo Provera, a birth control shot passed by the FDA in 1992; it was passed after over twenty years of rejections, because of the fact that when they tested on beagles and monkeys, they showed an increased probability of endometrial and breast cancer as well as birth defects. The really crazy part about the endometrial cancer was the fact that there were no records of that particular breed of monkey ever having it before, so Depo gave those monkeys a whole new type of cancer. When the test animals were changed to rodents in 1987; however, Depo caused no adverse effects even though in illegal test trials run by the company, women died and got cancer after exposure to the drug. Now it is recommended by doctors who advocate it because of their lack of information on its history or on the over SIX columns of side effects including all the normal birth control side effects as well as passing tissue clots the size of golf balls, loss of bone marrow, infertility, causing two types of cancer and a severely increased chance of contracting STD's. It is considered so detrimental that you can never have had Depo Provera in your system to be considered as a surrogate mother. In other words, you need to heavily research any drugs you take because the FDA isn't exactly testing thoroughly. Thank you for that PETA.
Resources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/07/13/worries-about-hpv-vaccine-european-unions-medicines-agency-investigating-reports-of-rare-but-severe-reactions/
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/gardasil.asp
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1985/02/problems-us.html
http://www.drugs.com/sfx/depo-provera-side-effects.html
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