HPV vaccine ‘As deadly as the cancer’: Cervarix designer
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Update (2009/10/13): Note the comment from Rob, below, that this article has been retracted by the Daily Express and excoriated on the BadScience.net blog.
Lucy Johnston, Daily Express
October 4, 2009
The cervical cancer vaccine may be riskier and more deadly than the cancer it is designed to prevent, a leading expert who developed the drug has warned.
She also claimed the jab would do nothing to reduce the rates of cervical cancer in the UK.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Express, Dr Diane Harper, who was involved in the clinical trials of the controversial drug Cervarix, said the jab was being “over-marketed” and parents should be properly warned about the potential side effects.
Authorities in the UK should be on the alert because its sister vaccine, Gardasil, used in America, has already been associated with 32 deaths, she said.
Her comments follow the death of 14-year-old Natalie Morton, who collapsed an hour after receiving the jab at school last week.
It is highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticise a vaccine which they helped get approved.
However, Dr Harper, who has written many of the published medical papers about the jab, is so concerned she decided to speak out.
Dr Harper, of the University of Missouri-Kansas, said she believed the risks – “small but real” – could be worse than the risk of developing cancer itself.
And she claimed: “All this jab will do is prevent girls getting some abnormalities associated with cervical cancer which can be treated. It will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all.
“Parents need to know this and that in a small number of cases there are serious side effects.”
Post mortem results last week blamed Natalie’s death on a rare cancer but Dr Richard Halvorsen, author of The Truth About Vaccines, said: “One minute Natalie is an apparently healthy girl, she has the vaccine and within two hours she is dead.
We are told she had a terrible cancer inside her that killed her but this is implausible.
“If you have cancer you have symptoms. Clearly public health doctors are desperate to turn the debate away from the vaccine as a possible cause.”
Jabs, the vaccine support group, has received details of 19 girls who have suffered serious health problems, including seizures, fatigue or joint and muscle pain, since their jabs.
The Sunday Express revealed earlier this year that some of them have launched legal action against the makers of Cervarix.
Lisa Wickendon, 13, of Chobham, Surrey, developed muscle weakness in her legs after her third dose of vaccine last March, leaving her unable to walk.
When hospital tests came back normal, doctors said her symptoms were in her mind and referred her to a mental health team.
However, a consultant psychiatrist said her mental health was sound and her symptoms had “a strong relationship to receiving the vaccine”.
Her mother Elizabeth, a secretary, said: “She couldn’t walk or see properly. She couldn’t make those things up.”
GlaxoSmith-Kline, which makes Cervarix, said: “The vaccine has been thoroughly tested. Over 1.4million doses have been administered and it is estimated will save up to 400 lives a year.”
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: “The coroner is absolutely clear that the vaccine did not cause Natalie’s
death. I strongly urge all girls to have the vaccine when they are offered it. It has an excellent safety record.”
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October 12th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Every single claim attributed by the Express to Dr Harper is simply untrue; Dr Harper told the Express nothing of the sort. Ben Goldacre, Guardian columnist and doctor, contacted Diane Harper and she had the following to say about the Express article:
Dr Harper has lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission. The Express have removed the article from their website and printed an apology in the print edition:
October 13th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Thanks for the update. So, either the journalist was blatantly lying – or pressure was exerted on Dr. Harper to retract her statements. Or perhaps the truth lies between these two poles. I guess we’ll file that in the same bin as that other recent discovery of the ‘mysterious tumour’ responsible for the death of Natalie Morton two hours after receiving her Cervarix shot.
I noticed that the BadScience article you quote included a blurb on the aspect of Cervarix marketing which Dr. Harper is publically critical of. I include it below for the sake of completeness. I’ve tried to find more on Lucy Johnstone’s credentials but other than her past gig at The Big Issue and her current employ as the Health Editor of The Observer and The Daily Express nothing much came up. She does seem to be of an activist bent, to put it mildly.
Those with access to publicly-restricted medical journals >:[ can read Dr. Harper’s actual report here…
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