thevaccinereaction--2020-12-06--Merck is Sued for Injuries Caused by Gardasil

Sahara Walker was only 11 years old in 2013 when she received the Gardasil vaccine that drastically changed her life , according to the attorneys who filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against the New Jersey based pharmaceutical giant , Merck on Nov. 18 , 2020 .
Prior to Gardasil , Sahara was a healthy young girl who achieved academic success in math , scoring in the top 97th percentile of Wisconsin students and was an active member in mathletes , advancing to the state competition .
After only one shot of Gardasil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines , Sahara ’ s health took a drastic turn for the worse .
Within days of the shots , she suffered from headaches , vomiting , fatigue , cognitive impairment , excessive sleeping , body aches and fevers and , by the end of the month , she was bedridden and in a wheelchair .
There were no more mathlete competitions as Sahara was left with no choice but to be homeschooled for the remainder of 6th grade through 12th grade .
‘ My injuries from Gardasil have stolen so much from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that fateful day in 2013 , Sahara was going to more than 50 doctor appointments a year and took as many as 55 pills a day .
She currently receives Intravenous Immune Globulin ( IVIG ) , which is a blood product made from pooling the serum of 1,000-15,000 plasma donors and takes 14 prescription medications .
Sahara has been diagnosed with Neurocardiogenic Syncope ( NCS ) , Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia ( POTS ) , Orthostatic Hypotension ( OH ) , Small Fiber neuropathy and Autoimmune Autonomic Neuropathy.1 Sahara is far from alone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine .
There have been thousands of reports of young women being left with severe brain and immune system dysfunction , including hundreds of reports of deaths following Gardasil vaccinations.3 4 5 6 As of December 2020 , there had been 45,710 reports of Gardasil vaccine reactions made to VAERS , with 7,017 reports of serious adverse events , including 789 that were life threatening , as well as 4,772 hospitalizations and 376 deaths after vaccination with Gardasil 4.7 In the year 2010 alone , there were 26 Gardasil-related deaths reported to VAERS.8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FDA in 2006 , the National Vaccine Information Center ( NVIC ) issued a series of reports in 2007 analyzing Gardasil adverse events being reported to VAERS.9 10 11 NVIC ’ s analyses revealed that there was a statistically significant increased risk of Guillain-Barre Syndrome ( GBS ) and other serious adverse events when Gardasil was simultaneously given with other vaccines , especially the meningococcal vaccine , Menactra .
There was a 1,130 percent increase in GBS , a 674 percent increase in injuries from falls after loss of consciousness , a 234 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a 118 percent increase in cardiac problems , a 114 percent increase in respiratory problems and a 30.1 percent increase in convulsions and central nervous system problems when the Gardasil and Menactra vaccines were given at the same doctor ’ s visit.12 Barbara Loe Fisher , co-founder and president of the NVIC , said : Merck ’ s action was to phase out the original Gardasil 4 vaccine and market Gardasil 9 in December 2014 .
Gardasil 9 , which is supposed to protect against infection with 9 strains of HPV , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bioactive aluminum adjuvant.14 As of December 2020 , there have been 14,025 reports to VAERS after vaccination with Gardasil 9 , 787 with serious injury , 100 life threating , 550 hospitalizations and 31 deaths.15 The lawsuit filed on behalf of Sahara Walker alleges that Merck was negligent , committed fraud and failed to warn patients posing “ a substantial risk of significant harm to children and patients who were injected with the Gardasil HPV vaccine , ” and that there were inherent manufacturing defects in the vaccine itself.16 The Complaint further alleges @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the FDA and consumers and overstated the vaccine ’ s benefits , when there were no published studies demonstrating the vaccine prevented any type of cancer and that , “ Merck negligently and fraudulently deprived parents and children of their right to informed consent.
” This assertion is supported by statements from one of the leading researchers of Gardasil vaccine , Diane Harper , MD , MPH , who has publicly stated that parents and young women should have more complete warnings prior to receiving the vaccine.17 There are over 200 types of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strains ( types ) potentially associated with cervical cancer .
Gardasil 4 claims to protect against four of those 200 strains with only two of the four strains associated with cervical cancer , while Gardasil 9 is said to protect against 9 strains.19 Current data shows that the vaccine is only effective for five years , however , children as young as 9 are being injected with Gardasil.20 There are questions about giving very young children a vaccine that may only confer five years of protection against cervical cancer , when the average @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years old.21 Merck applied for fast-track status for Gardasil for the prevention of cervical cancer , even though the already available pap smear test is highly effective in preventing cancer when screening occurs on a routine basis as part of well care visits for women .
Fast-track status is granted by the FDA to a manufacturer when there is an unmet need for a serious medical condition.22 Some health professionals have pointed out that there was no unmet need as far as detecting and preventing cervical cancer because the pap smear , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been considered the most successful cancer screening test since it was developed in the 1920s and made a part of routine health care for women in the 1970s in the U.S.23 Vaccine manufacturers which receive a fast-track designation from the FDA may submit less data to the government prior to licensing and , in lieu of pre-licensure clinical trial data , can conduct “ post-marketing ” clinical studies after the vaccine is released for widespread public use.24 The Complaint alleges that Merck failed to disclose key material facts related the safety and efficacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clinical trial period and after the vaccine went on the market , and further alleges that Merck has never disclosed that Gardasil ’ s ingredients contain experimental viral DNA fragments ( HPV LV1-DNA ) that have never been approved by the FDA.25 The studies conducted during the fast-tracked pre-licensing period revealed an increase in the death rate of young women by almost double the national average in both the Gardasil group and the control group .
The control group did not receive a true placebo but received the same bioactive aluminum adjuvant contained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death rate for young women aged 15-26 is 4.37 per 10,000 people , .23 percent of which can be attributed to cervical cancer , the death rate of the Gardasil study participants was 8.5 percent per 10,000 .
When looking at all of the studies Merck conducted on Gardasil , the death rate climbs to 13.3 percent per 10,000 .
Analysis of mortality date from Merck ’ s Gardasil trials suggests that a young woman is 58 times more likely to die following receipt of Gardasil vaccine than from cervical cancer .
Merck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gardasil study participants as “ coincidence.
” 26 In 2019 , Merck made $ 3.7 billion from global sales of Gardasil vaccine.27