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HPV Vaccines: SaneVax Message to Colombia#Family#Columbia#HPV
By Norma Erickson
 Attorney Monica Leon Del Rio is currently representing several Colombian girls who are experiencing new medical conditions after the administration of Gardasil. She recently invited me to speak to a group of esteemed public health officials, government representatives and medical people in Colombia to explain why the SaneVax team does not support HPV vaccination programs.Just prior to the time I was to address the meeting, the international conference call was disconnected. Despite multiple attempts to re-establish the connection I was not able to speak as scheduled.
Therefore, my intended message to Colombia is as follows:SaneVax is an international non-profit organization working with representatives in over 25 countries, all of whom are concerned about HPV vaccines. The SaneVax team believes vaccines should meet four common sense criteria prior to their inclusion in mass vaccination programs. We believe they should be scientifically proven safe, affordable, necessary and effective prior to government approval. The SaneVax Team cannot support HPV vaccination programs for many reasons. #1 HPV VACCINES ARE NOT PROVEN SAFE
#2 HPV VACCINES ARE NOT AFFORDABLE
#3 HPV VACCINES ARE NOT NECESSARY
#4 HPV VACCINES ARE NOT PROVEN EFFECTIVE
I would respectfully submit that all of these facts should be taken into consideration when evaluating the HPV vaccination program in Colombia. Please consider every new medical condition following HPV vaccine administration to be a potential adverse event. Thorough investigations are the only way to determine the safety profile of HPV vaccines in your country. Please take action to protect your future generation. Halt the current HPV vaccination program until you have determined whether or not HPV vaccines are a good addition to your cervical cancer prevention program. You must answer the question – Are HPV vaccines Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective in Colombia?
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La abogada Mónica León Del Rio actualmente representa a varias niñas colombianas que están experimentando nuevas afecciones médicas después de la administración de Gardasil. Ella hace poco me invitó a hablar a un grupo de funcionarios de salud pública, representantes gubernamentales y personal médico en Colombia para explicar por qué el equipo SaneVax no respalda los programas de vacunación contra el VPH.Justo antes de mi participación en la conferencia internacional, se desconectó la llamada. A pesar de múltiples intentos para restablecer la conexión no pude hacer mi presentación.
Por lo tanto, mi mensaje destinado a Colombia es el siguiente:SaneVax es una organización internacional sin ánimo de lucro que trabaja con representantes en más de 25 países, todos los cuales están preocupados acerca de las vacunas contra el VPH. El equipo SaneVax cree que las vacunas deben cumplir con 4 criterios de sentido común antes de incluirse en los programas de vacunación masiva. Creemos que deben ser demostrados científicamente que son seguras, asequibles, necesarias y eficaces antes de ser aprobadas por el gobierno. El Equipo SaneVax no puede apoyar los programas de vacunación contra el VPH por muchas razones. #1 No se ha demostrado que las vacunas contra el VPH sean SEGURAS
#2 Las vacunas contra el VPH NO SON ADSEQUIBLES
#3 Las vacunas contra el VPH no son necesarias
#4 Las vacunas contra el VPH no tienen una eficacia demostrada
Me permito pedir respetuosamente que todos estos hechos sean tenidos en cuenta al evaluar el programa de vacunación contra el VPH en Colombia. Por favor consideren que cada nuevo caso de anormalidad médica luego de la administración de la vacuna contra el VPH puede ser un evento adverso a la misma. Las investigaciones exhaustivas son la única manera de determinar el perfil de seguridad de las vacunas contra el VPH en su país. Por favor, tomen medidas para proteger sus generaciones futuras. Detengan el programa de vacunación contra el VPH actual hasta que se haya determinado si las vacunas contra el VPH son una buena adición al programa de prevención de cáncer de cuello uterino. Deben responder a la pregunta – ¿Son las vacunas contra el VPH seguras, asequibles, necesarias y eficaces en Colombia?
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This article in it’s entirety, is compliments of www.SaneVax.org
HPV Vaccination Program in Colombia: Undermining the Truth?#Family#Vaccines#Columbia
By Norma Erickson
Hundreds of young women in Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia ended up in hospitals since the administration of the second dose of Gardasil beginning in schools on March 20, 2014. Local newspapers report as many as 700 girls being sent to emergency rooms after receiving Gardasil over the last few months.
According to a local school teacher:
The girls in Carmen de Bolivar received their first dose of Gardasil in July 2013, after which reported reactions were similar to other vaccines (redness, swelling, pain at the injection site, etc…). The second dose was administered on the 20th of March 2014. Several girls reacted immediately and much more severely, reporting dizziness, syncope, and severe headaches. By May 29th to the 30th, the situation had turned into a full-blown crisis with scores of girls being admitted to local emergency room facilities to be treated for fainting, shortness of breath, weakness in the limbs etc…
No one seems to know what instigated this epidemic number of hospital visits. Government health officials emphatically denied that Gardasil could be causing the extraordinary number of new medical conditions. Instead, they put forth theories such as lead poisoning, mass hysteria and even too much Ouija board use.
Parents of the affected girls did not agree with any of these theories. They knew the only thing that had recently changed in their daughters’ life was the administration of the second dose of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
Hundreds of parents took to the streets in peaceful demonstrations to demand investigations; others burned tires in protest, blocking a main road connecting a coastal town with the interior. For the first time in the history of Colombia, perhaps the world, parents launched massive public protests over the administration of a vaccine that is apparently making people sick instead of protecting them. (read more)
Parents of affected children suspected Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria of being less than truthful, being misinformed, or simply protecting special interest groups supporting the use of Gardasil and they were not shy about stating their suspicions in any public forum they could gain access to.
Health Minister Gaviria accused media representatives of contributing to the creation of an epidemic of ’mass hysteria’ and publicly requested journalists and media personnel to exercise ’more responsible journalism.’
Enter Nobel-prize nominee, Dr. Nubia Muñoz Calero
Sunday, October 5, 2014, Alda Mera, reporter for El Pais, published an article titled, The HPV vaccine saves lives, Nubia Muñoz Calero. Reporter Alda Mera apparently thought there was no one better to allay the fears of Colombian parents than an epidemiologist who had been born, raised and educated in Colombia, who had participated in cancer research for more than 30 years and been nominated to receive a Nobel Prize for her work. This medical scientist was Dr. Nubia Muñoz Calero. (read her biography here)
Unfortunately, the article published as a result of reporter Alda Mera’s interview with Dr. Nubia Muñoz Calero continues to market HPV vaccines via fear, not facts.
Please examine the statements from Alda’s article below when compared with documented factual information:
According to Dr. Muñoz Calero, when asked if Colombia understands the importance of her discovery that HPV causes cervical cancer, the good doctor states, ”I am not the inventor of (HPV) vaccines, pharmaceutical companies developed them. I have no commercial interest in them.”
FACT: What Dr. Muñoz Calero fails to mention is that she is a member of the Merck HPV Global Advisory Board. This may not be what one would technically call a commercial interest. However, it does constitute a substantial conflict of interest when one is being portrayed as an independent scientific expert. (verify here) Why did Reporter Alda Mera not disclose this information?
According to Dr. Muñoz Calero, her contribution was to demonstrate with well-planned epidemiological studies that the human papillomavirus is the main and necessary cause of cervical cancer.
FACT: Epidemiological studies never prove causation. They cannot prove that a specific risk factor actually causes the disease being studied. Epidemiological evidence can only show that this risk factor is associated (correlated) with a higher incidence of disease in the population exposed to that risk factor. The higher the correlation the more certain the association, but an epidemiological study cannot prove causation. (verify here)
It is also important to note that papers published prior to FDA approval of Gardasil refer to HPV as being ’associated with’ the development of cervical cancer. It was only after FDA approval of Gardasil that ’scientific’ papers began to refer to human papillomavirus as being ’causally associated’ with the development of cervical cancer. This phrase soon morphed into HPV being ’the main and necessary cause’ of cervical cancer. (verify here, in Dr. Muñoz Calero’s own published paper – simply scroll through the referenced papers and look at their dates of publication.)
According to Dr. Muñoz Calero, she had helped identify the two types of HPV (human papillomavirus) responsible for 70% of cervical cancer.
FACT: What the esteemed doctor failed to mention is the fact that the two types identified may not be the prevalent types in the Colombian population. If HPV 16/18 are not the prevalent types in Colombian women, any effect Gardasil may have on the prevalence of cervical cancer in her country would diminish substantially. (verify here)
According to Dr. Muñoz Calero, when asked about the safety demonstrated during the clinical trials of Gardasil, she stated, ”As an intramuscular injection (Gardasil) produces some pain in 80% of girls, heat and redness in the arm. A small percentage have headaches and fevers, 10% for maybe one or two days. But these 40,000 women (who participated in clinical trials) did not suffer syncope, fainting, or diseases that (are) now blamed on the vaccine.
FACT: According to documentation presented to the FDA prior to Gardasil approval in the United States, 73.3% of clinical trial participants who received Gardasil reported new medical conditions after vaccine administration. It is interesting to note that 76.3% of those who received the so-called ’placebo’ also reported new medical conditions after injection. The problem here is that the ’placebo’ used was not an inert substance – it consisted of the brand new (not safety tested) proprietary aluminum adjuvant Merck developed for use in Gardasil and a ’carrier’ solution with undisclosed ingredients. The only thing these clinical trials proved was that Gardasil was no less dangerous than the adjuvant used in Gardasil. Many of the new medical conditions reported during clinical trials are the same ones being reported around the world after Gardasil administration. (verify here) (list of reported new medical conditions from clinical trials here)
According to Dr. Muñoz Calero, when asked whether Gardasil had been rushed to market, stated that the laboratories created the first human papillomavirus vaccine at the end of the 90’s, and began phase I and II clinical trials before 2000.
FACT: Merck’s development program for the HPV quadrivalent vaccine for prevention of cervical cancer was granted fast track designation in 2002. Merck initiated phase 3 clinical trials of the HPV quadrivalent vaccine in 2002. (verify here) This fast track designation was granted despite the fact that Merck’s proposed vaccine did not meet any of the criteria required for fast track approval. (verify here)
According to Dr. Muñoz Calero, when asked about the adverse reactions being reported in Colombia, says she does not know in detail what is happening in Carmen de Bolivar because she does not live in the country; but based on what she’s read and been told by colleagues….200,000 million doses have been distributed (not necessarily administered) in the world. WHO, PAHO, FDA and EMA say that Gardasil is safe and there is no scientific evidence showing (that it) triggers autoimmune diseases (Guillán-Barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis).
FACT: There may be no concrete scientific proof that HPV vaccines are triggering and/or causing the adverse events being reported in every country where they are administered. However, there is also no scientific proof that HPV vaccines are NOT causing these new medical conditions either. There is no such thing as an epidemic of coincidence.
The SaneVax team would like Dr. Muñoz Calero to explain why biologically plausible mechanisms of action that could explain new medical conditions occurring after the administration of HPV vaccines presented by scientists and medical researchers around the globe is not being investigated thoroughly by any of the alphabet organizations she mentions which all have vested interests in mass administration of one of the most expensive vaccines ever produced. (verify here and here)
Near the end of the interview, Dr. Muñoz Calero is asked if it would be a good idea to stop mass HPV vaccinations in Colombia until after investigations to determine which children are at risk for adverse reactions. She states:
No. It would be a mistake to stop the program. Countries that achieve the highest coverage are those with school-based programs. What I recommend is to increase education programs for physicians, media, and communities. Make them understand that this vaccine is the best weapon against cervical cancer.
Dr. Muñoz Calero, since when is it a mistake to apply the precautionary principle to the administration of a medical intervention of any kind?
Anyone with an ounce of compassion would be fighting to protect the continued health and well-being of the young girls in their native land; NOT fighting to preserve the uptake of a vaccine which might be responsible for epidemic numbers of health problems.
The new medical conditions occurring after Gardasil administration must be investigated thoroughly before any more young women are subjected to devastating potential risks in exchange for the highly debatable promise of a reward 20 years down the road.
The latest ’medical miracle’ can wait until after independent investigations determine it to be safe.
By the way, there is a huge difference between being ’anti-vaccine’ and supporting vaccine safety.
If a pharmaceutical company cannot market their products based on facts, they should not be allowed to market them at all!
This article in it’s entirety, is compliments of www.SaneVax.org
The Creating of an HPV Industry#Vaccines#HPV#Family
To see the background of the HPV timeline in more detail through the industry it has become today, then click on the link below. 
HPV Timeline#Vaccines#HPV#Family
If you would like to view charts, and details behind the HPV vaccine then click on the link below.
Gardasil Scandal Brewing in Colombia?#HPV#Vaccines#Family
Gardasil Scandal Brewing in Colombia?
By Mario Lamo- Jiménez
One of Colombia’s First Gardasil Victims?
Her name is María Paula Mejía, college student. Since receiving three doses of Gardasil her health has deteriorated considerably. She now suffers from constant pain throughout her body, muscle weakness, and bleeding from the nose and gums. She has so much pain in her left knee and ankle that she must walk with a cane, and cannot continue her college education. Paula is one of the first in Colombia to report serious new medical conditions occurring after the use of Gardasil.
Lloyd Phillips, an American researcher of infectious diseases and genetics, has studied the adverse effects of Gardasil for five years. His work has revealed how Gardasil works differently in different people. He has documented related and biologically plausible mechanisms of action which could cause the many serious and life-threatening side effects which are being reported by girls and young women around the world after receiving the HPV vaccine.
In Colombia we have a potential crisis of major proportions resulting from the use of Gardasil because it is “free and compulsory” by “Law of the Republic”. It is assumed that this HPV vaccine is effective when used to combat cervical cancer, which can be caused by human papilloma virus. However, this vaccine has been hotly debated internationally for allegedly being dangerous and ineffective. It is currently being administered in Colombia without obtaining informed consent from young girls and their parents as to the potential and unknown risks of use.
The director of vaccination at MOH (Ministry of Health), Alejandro Garcia, says the government is “confident in the report of the World Health Organization,” which gives the go-ahead to the vaccine and assures that there is no association between the developments of illness and application of the vaccine.
Lina Trujillo of the Colombian Cancer Institute says that the vaccine protects exclusively against HPV and “does not remove the possibility of having other diseases, and adolescence is the time at which diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis start to appear,” and that “the only contraindication is ‘pregnancy’ and specialists have no hesitation in recommending the vaccine.”
However, neither the director of the Ministry of Health nor Lina Trujillo, from the Colombian Cancer Institute seem to be informed about how the vaccine is produced, and much less about the potential side effects of Gardasil.
The World Health Organization, whose reports are practically the Bible of the Gardasil vaccination policy in Colombia, has been suggested to be complicit with the pharmaceutical industry in general and the Gardasil manufacturer in particular in urging promotion of HPV vaccination campaigns. Relying on the pharmaceutical industry to self-regulate has historically been a losing proposition for the public when companies are left to weigh profits against transparency.
The María Paula Mejía case is illustrative in this regard. She had a third dose of the vaccine, even though she had experienced adverse symptoms after the first two injections. The third injection is when her serious symptoms began.
Interviewed via Skype, with visible signs of pain and discomfort from the effort of sitting upright in a chair, she told us the symptoms she experienced after the third dose of vaccine.
During the first 15 days after her third injection she experienced fever, vomiting, diarrhea, bone pain, joint pain, migraines, tingling, electrical “zaps” on her hip and back, and neck pain. One day she was unable to move for 2 hours, and continues to suffer from insomnia and dizziness. María Paula had every expectation that the symptoms would abate or at least become less intense, but instead they progressed in severity.
At her medical appointments, during which she was subjected to more than 40 laboratory tests, the medical diagnosis was unanimous: All tests were perfectly “normal”, she had nothing … while her symptoms worsened.
The symptoms she was already experiencing were followed by more severe ones, which included progressively spreading joint and bone pain, worsened neck pain, scalp pain, continuing severe hip, back, and knee pain. She began to suffer loss of strength in the left leg, wrist pain, dizziness, neuralgia throughout the body, painful spinal “zaps” as well as continuation of the “zaps” in her hips and limbs. She began to suffer difficulty breathing at certain times of day, chest pain, bleeding in the nose and gums, deviation of the left knee and left ankle, and new complications from older problems.
Through all these symptoms, medical observations and tests were useless in arriving at a diagnosis until a doctor thought to ask: “Has she been recently vaccinated?”
It was then that María Paula first made the association between the vaccine and her new medical condition. And she was not mistaken.
She is currently overwhelmed by pain, has difficulty walking and feels her health is deteriorating more and more. Her symptoms are consistent with those being reported after Gardasil around the world. Although not all are affected equally, of all girls who are vaccinated, a percentage of them will suffer severe effects from Gardasil, which can lead to paralysis and even death.
Neither Merck, the manufacturer, nor the Colombian government agrees that the vaccine is causing these severe symptoms. Both simply raise an accusatory finger at those who denounce this situation, as if the victims did not exist.
The reproductive health of girls and Colombian youth’s rights are being denied to those injected with Gardasil. This is not acceptable, particularly since government support for HPV vaccines has been withdrawn in other countries, such as Japan, for example, because of concerns about serious adverse reactions including infertility.
What’s more, says researcher Lloyd Phillips, if a girl who already has HPV is vaccinated, her risk of getting cancer could substantially increase.
Colombian doctors do NOT know, or refuse to accept, the risks of this vaccine. Treatment for victims is nonexistent.
This is what the U.S. researcher Lloyd Phillips explained to me about Gardasil:
The vaccine uses an aluminum adjuvant because in 1920 a man named Glinny discovered that aluminum stimulated the immune system. A Frenchman named Ramón then discovered that if the aluminum-containing vaccine was given to a horse that had an infection, the immune system produced an even greater amount of antibodies.
Phillips found that aluminum remaining in the system after Gardasil injections can cause an enhanced and extended immune response against infections and illnesses that occurred long ago.
This enhanced response can cause inflammation in the body, especially in the digestive system, and can cause the immune system to wrongfully identify food proteins as foreign. The body then begins to produce histamine to combat what it perceives as a food allergy, causing stomach pain and dilating blood vessels, which can cause dizziness and excessive heart pounding upon standing up.
The result, according to Phillips, is that the more inflamed a digestive tract becomes, the more its ability to absorb nutrients needed to maintain the chemical cycles in the body can become impaired, which can lead to fatal consequences.
Phillips also notes that the body cannot distinguish between inflammation and fear, either of which can trigger the “fight or flight response” which forces the person to excrete magnesium, causing a deficiency. This deficiency has many symptoms, such as muscle spasms, pain, irritability, cardiac arrhythmias, headaches, brittle bones, and more.
In short, says the researcher, this type of vaccine was made for people with “a genetically perfect immune system,” which does not exist in reality.
Gardasil can produce all of these symptoms to varying degrees according to the genetic make-up and medical condition of the person who receives the vaccine, which can vary from hour to hour. This is something neither Merck, nor the Colombian government is telling the public.
In the case of María Paula, as she will recount, when she received the first dose, she was never warned that any of the symptoms she is now suffering were possible. She says:
“They told me that I could have pain in my arm for a week and that I had to wait 15 minutes before leaving the Cancer League, because some girls fainted and the next week was going to be uncomfortable, but that it was normal because of the vaccine… I received the second dose and the second dose hurt a little more … the next few months I began to experience fatigue and back pain, but I thought it was because of my daily activities … I had pain in the lower back and neck … I received the third dose on 20 January of this year and the pain was much greater than in the previous two doses … I began to experience several things … immediately after being vaccinated I began to experience dizziness, I wanted to throw up, obviously my arm really hurt … they warned me about the dizziness, and the urge to vomit and the arm pain and that the next day my arm was also going to hurt, but the following week I had fever, vomiting, diarrhea, extremely strong migraines that lasted 15 days with vomiting, and diarrhea…, I went to the doctor and was told that that there was a virus going around… one night I sat on the couch in my house and then I lay down; I started feeling really bad, very feverish, until I realized that I could not get up from the couch “…
María Paula’s symptoms seem to get worse with each passing day. For the moment, the only hope she has of improving is going to the U.S. to receive treatment.
In Colombia there is no protocol to treat these cases. The government says they do not exist.
And what is the role of Merck, the manufacturer of the vaccine?
According to Lloyd Phillips, company profits are what motivates the existence of this vaccine and its advertising campaigns, due to lawsuits against Merck as a result of VIOXX, a drug that caused 27,000 heart attacks. A single dose of Gardasil may cost about 68 cents to produce (about $ 1360 pesos), and in Colombia obtaining it privately costs the equivalent of $60 (roughly $120 thousand pesos) and in the USA up to $ 200 (about 400 thousand pesos).
The Colombian government has spent $300 million on a questionable vaccine that is already starting to claim apparent victims in Colombia. Following Lloyd Phillips’ statistics, of the $300 million paid by Colombia, $ 298.98 million (nearly $299 million) was profit for Merck.
Colombia is purchasing the HPV vaccine at a hugely inflated price. This vaccine can not only ruin lives, but can cost thousands of dollars to bring a single victim back to health. Families may have to spend thousands of dollars trying to restore their daughters’ health, without having prevented any cancer as promised, and instead causing a number of illnesses that did not exist before using this ‘miracle’ vaccine.
We are then faced with a health emergency induced by a vaccine that has never been proven to prevent any cancer and that is ravaging the children and youth around the world, against which there have been million-dollar awards for HPV vaccine injury in the U.S. (The U.S. government has already paid more than six million dollars to victims) and the vaccine has been rejected in several countries, for example in India and Japan.
But in Colombia, Gardasil will continue to claim more casualties unless an immediate halt to its “free and compulsory” status is granted.
The Colombian government is exposing itself to millions of dollars in lawsuits for its actions in making this vaccine mandatory to Colombian girls and women without informing them of the grave risks already known worldwide.
Does the government of Colombia intend to ignore medical consumers’ right to informed consent, despite knowing the consequences?
Mario Lamo-Jiménez
Article courtesy of SaneVax Inc.
Last year the Huffington Post did an article stating that Columbia is the happiest country in the world. A recent, on-going act by the country’s health department could bring the country’s pleasantries to a screeching halt. What I cannot fathom, is how 300 million dollars are spent on one vaccine for the country. I can only imagine how much better spent those monies could be used in bettering the lives of it’s people. Unfortunately, this vaccine is a scam of the highest order. Youth, and families the world over are being ravaged by it’s effect.
I hope the health, and government authorities do not put so much faith in organizations wreaked with havoc, and corruption. I would hate to see such a lovely, and happy country lose much of it’s healthy, family-oriented lifestyle that brings them so much joy, and admiration from the world over.
María Paula Mejía, thank you for sounding the alarm to your countrymen. I am certain there will be many prayers, and hopes sent your way. I am so sorry your happy, and exciting college life is being turned upside down.
There are people that can help. Sanevax is a Godsend, and they will no doubt guide you to healing options. I also have a menu option on my site with health practitioners who understand what pains you are experiencing. I would only work with individuals with proven knowledge in this area. Through SaneVax.org or this link, Featured Doctors.
I hope the following music brings you peace, and strength, and helps to get your mind off things for now. My family, and I are long time Selena fans. What talent!
Just know that so much good can occur from here on out. Have faith in God, and know he will be there every step of the way.
Your friend, jen vranes 🙂