Tagged with HPV

While Health Ministers Fiddle, Australians Are Harmed

Two months after initiating a campaign to vaccinate school girls against the Human Papillomavirus, the Japanese Government has suspended the active promotion of both Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines. Japanese health authorities have found these shots to be associated with rates of serious reactions which are more than twice that of other vaccines introduced at the … Continue reading »

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Cancer vaccine programme suspended after 4 girls die

Cancer vaccine programme suspended after 4 girls die – dnaindia.com New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has told Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat to immediately suspend the cervical cancer control vaccination programme for girls. The programme is part of a two-year study to look into the utility of a vaccine in public health … Continue reading »

Call to shelve vaccine over adverse reactions

Girls given the Gardasil HPV vaccine are at least 16 times more likely to have a serious adverse reaction to it than to develop terminal cervical cancer, which critics say raise doubts about the increasingly controversial vaccine. Information released under the Official Information Act shows the death rate for cervical cancer between 2002 and 2005 … Continue reading »