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Welcome To Off The Radar A parent who wished to make an "informed" decision on vaccinating their child and the difficulty they incurred at not being told the complete story. http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php 2024-05-03T09:03:06+00:00 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management Off The Radar Welcomes You 2005-12-26T13:00:00+00:00 2005-12-26T13:00:00+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/44-uncategorised/1-off-the-radar-welcomes-you <div class="feed-description"><div align="left"><img src="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/images/stories/vaccine/gardasil.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="10" vspace="10" />This site was born out of the frustration of a parent who wished to make an "informed" decision about Gardasil for their daughter, and the difficulty they incurred at not being told the complete story about the vaccine by "The Ministry of Health and medical establishment".  To have a "one stop shop" of information for parents concerning what is being put into their children, whether by vaccine or food, this site endeavours to tell "what they didn't want you to hear"<strong>. </strong></div> <div align="left"><strong>                                         </strong></div> <div align="left">IMPORTANT NOTICE -</div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">If you or someone you know has been injured by the Gardasil vaccine please contact the law offices of Patricia Finn Attorney by email at <a href="mailto:patriciafinnattorney@gmail.com">patriciafinnattorney@gmail.com</a>. This firm is litigating Gardasil injury cases in the US Court of Federal Claims on behalf of those injured by the HPV shot.</div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">I'm not sure whether those from outside the US, likes of here in New Zealand, would be able to be included, however it would be worthwhile contacting them for any information regarding litigation.   <strong>Julie Smith</strong></div> <div align="left"> </div></div> <div class="feed-description"><div align="left"><img src="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/images/stories/vaccine/gardasil.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="10" vspace="10" />This site was born out of the frustration of a parent who wished to make an "informed" decision about Gardasil for their daughter, and the difficulty they incurred at not being told the complete story about the vaccine by "The Ministry of Health and medical establishment".  To have a "one stop shop" of information for parents concerning what is being put into their children, whether by vaccine or food, this site endeavours to tell "what they didn't want you to hear"<strong>. </strong></div> <div align="left"><strong>                                         </strong></div> <div align="left">IMPORTANT NOTICE -</div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">If you or someone you know has been injured by the Gardasil vaccine please contact the law offices of Patricia Finn Attorney by email at <a href="mailto:patriciafinnattorney@gmail.com">patriciafinnattorney@gmail.com</a>. This firm is litigating Gardasil injury cases in the US Court of Federal Claims on behalf of those injured by the HPV shot.</div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">I'm not sure whether those from outside the US, likes of here in New Zealand, would be able to be included, however it would be worthwhile contacting them for any information regarding litigation.   <strong>Julie Smith</strong></div> <div align="left"> </div></div> WE HAD NO INFORMED CONSENT BEFORE GARDASIL CHANGED OUR LIVES 2013-05-06T18:44:27+00:00 2013-05-06T18:44:27+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/339-we-had-no-informed-consent-before-gardasil-changed-our-lives <div class="feed-description"><h1 class="entry-title"> </h1> <div class="post-info"><span title="2013-05-03T16:09:13+00:00" class="date published time">May 3, 2013</span>  <a href="http://www.sanevax.org">www.sanevax.org</a> <span class="post-comments"> </span></div> <div class="entry-content"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;">By Glenda Smith</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">I was reluctant to grant permission for Angela to take the HPV vaccine in the fall of 2010. I remember thinking my daughter doesn’t need this, BUT maybe I’m not being a responsible mom if I don’t get it for her. According to the information I was given, the only risk was if you had a ‘<i>severe immune disease e.g. HIV.’ </i>I knew Angie had some chronic fatigue and celiac, but it said “<b>SEVERE</b>” and “<b>HIV</b>” – those are STRONG words that didn’t seem to fit Angela.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">So, trusting what I know now to be a vague and ‘ill-informed’ piece of paper, I signed and she began her shots.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">April 14, 2011, Angie was 13 years old and in grade 8 when she received her last dose of HPV vaccine.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">April 15, 2011, Angela called me at work feeling ill, nauseous, and dizzy and in severe abdominal pain. We thought she had eaten some wheat, but we checked everything. The pain never went away! It only got worse when she ate. She cried and cried in pain.</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><h1 class="entry-title"> </h1> <div class="post-info"><span title="2013-05-03T16:09:13+00:00" class="date published time">May 3, 2013</span>  <a href="http://www.sanevax.org">www.sanevax.org</a> <span class="post-comments"> </span></div> <div class="entry-content"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;">By Glenda Smith</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">I was reluctant to grant permission for Angela to take the HPV vaccine in the fall of 2010. I remember thinking my daughter doesn’t need this, BUT maybe I’m not being a responsible mom if I don’t get it for her. According to the information I was given, the only risk was if you had a ‘<i>severe immune disease e.g. HIV.’ </i>I knew Angie had some chronic fatigue and celiac, but it said “<b>SEVERE</b>” and “<b>HIV</b>” – those are STRONG words that didn’t seem to fit Angela.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">So, trusting what I know now to be a vague and ‘ill-informed’ piece of paper, I signed and she began her shots.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">April 14, 2011, Angie was 13 years old and in grade 8 when she received her last dose of HPV vaccine.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">April 15, 2011, Angela called me at work feeling ill, nauseous, and dizzy and in severe abdominal pain. We thought she had eaten some wheat, but we checked everything. The pain never went away! It only got worse when she ate. She cried and cried in pain.</p> </div> HPV VACCINES - BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST? 2013-03-26T07:21:10+00:00 2013-03-26T07:21:10+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/338-hpv-vaccines-betrayal-of-public-trust <div class="feed-description"><h1 class="entry-title"> </h1> <div class="post-info"><span title="2013-03-25T06:56:01+00:00" class="date published time">March 25, 2013</span>  By Norma Erickson, President</div> <div class="entry-content"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/SaneVax-Featured.jpg"><img width="150" height="52" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-18519" alt="SaneVax-Featured" src="http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/SaneVax-Featured.jpg" /></a>Last week, multiple news articles reported 44% of American parents refusing Gardasil or Cervarix for their children. Between 2008 and 2010, the percentage of parents concerned about the safety of these two vaccines nearly quadrupled. As of 2010, only 32% of eligible girls were vaccinated against HPV. What is wrong with this picture?</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Excerpts from national news sources, March 18-22, 2013:</p> <p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/18/hpv-teen-vaccinations/1987947/" target="_blank"><b>USA Today</b></a><b> </b>The percentage of parents who say they won’t have their teen daughters vaccinated against the human papillomavirus increases, even though physicians increasingly recommend the vaccinations. Concerns about safety and side effects for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine have increased among parents: 16% cited these fears as the main reason they did not have their daughters vaccinated in 2010, up from 5% in 2008…</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><h1 class="entry-title"> </h1> <div class="post-info"><span title="2013-03-25T06:56:01+00:00" class="date published time">March 25, 2013</span>  By Norma Erickson, President</div> <div class="entry-content"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/SaneVax-Featured.jpg"><img width="150" height="52" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-18519" alt="SaneVax-Featured" src="http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/SaneVax-Featured.jpg" /></a>Last week, multiple news articles reported 44% of American parents refusing Gardasil or Cervarix for their children. Between 2008 and 2010, the percentage of parents concerned about the safety of these two vaccines nearly quadrupled. As of 2010, only 32% of eligible girls were vaccinated against HPV. What is wrong with this picture?</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Excerpts from national news sources, March 18-22, 2013:</p> <p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/18/hpv-teen-vaccinations/1987947/" target="_blank"><b>USA Today</b></a><b> </b>The percentage of parents who say they won’t have their teen daughters vaccinated against the human papillomavirus increases, even though physicians increasingly recommend the vaccinations. Concerns about safety and side effects for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine have increased among parents: 16% cited these fears as the main reason they did not have their daughters vaccinated in 2010, up from 5% in 2008…</p> </div> NEW STUDY OF GARDASIL RAISES MORE SAFETY QUESTIONS 2013-03-16T20:31:31+00:00 2013-03-16T20:31:31+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/337-new-study-of-gardasil-raises-more-safety-questions <div class="feed-description"><p>By Norma Erickson, President <a href="http://www.sanevax.org">www.sanevax.org</a>  Posted 17 March 2013</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Why were HPV-16 L1 DNA fragments detected in post mortem samples taken six months after Gardasil vaccination and not the other vaccine-relevant types? Dr. Sin Hang Lee, of Milford Hospital and Milford Molecular Laboratory, may have provided an answer in his most recently published paper entitled, <b><i><a href="http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ABC-Conformational-Changes-HPV.pdf" target="_blank">Topological conformational changes of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA bound to an insoluble aluminum salt – A study by low temperature PCR.</a><sup><a title="title" href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/file:///C:/Users/Norma/Documents/SaneVax/Press%20Releases/Norma/03.11.2013-Gardasil-DNA-non-B-conformation.doc#_edn1"><b>[1]</b></a> </sup></i></b>His findings suggest that non-B-conformational changes in HPV L1 gene DNA fragments bound to the AAHS adjuvant may be genotype related, in other words specific to HPV-16.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In September 2011, SaneVax Inc. informed the FDA that despite all claims stating Gardasil contained ‘no viral DNA’ Dr. Lee had discovered there were indeed fragments of HPV-11, HPV-16 and HPV-18 L1 DNA firmly attached to Merck’s proprietary aluminum adjuvant in 100% of the samples he tested, but all were lacking a region amplifiable by an MY09 degenerate primer.<sup><a title="title" href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/file:///C:/Users/Norma/Documents/SaneVax/Press%20Releases/Norma/03.11.2013-Gardasil-DNA-non-B-conformation.doc#_edn2">[2]</a></sup></p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><p>By Norma Erickson, President <a href="http://www.sanevax.org">www.sanevax.org</a>  Posted 17 March 2013</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Why were HPV-16 L1 DNA fragments detected in post mortem samples taken six months after Gardasil vaccination and not the other vaccine-relevant types? Dr. Sin Hang Lee, of Milford Hospital and Milford Molecular Laboratory, may have provided an answer in his most recently published paper entitled, <b><i><a href="http://sanevax.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ABC-Conformational-Changes-HPV.pdf" target="_blank">Topological conformational changes of human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA bound to an insoluble aluminum salt – A study by low temperature PCR.</a><sup><a title="title" href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/file:///C:/Users/Norma/Documents/SaneVax/Press%20Releases/Norma/03.11.2013-Gardasil-DNA-non-B-conformation.doc#_edn1"><b>[1]</b></a> </sup></i></b>His findings suggest that non-B-conformational changes in HPV L1 gene DNA fragments bound to the AAHS adjuvant may be genotype related, in other words specific to HPV-16.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In September 2011, SaneVax Inc. informed the FDA that despite all claims stating Gardasil contained ‘no viral DNA’ Dr. Lee had discovered there were indeed fragments of HPV-11, HPV-16 and HPV-18 L1 DNA firmly attached to Merck’s proprietary aluminum adjuvant in 100% of the samples he tested, but all were lacking a region amplifiable by an MY09 degenerate primer.<sup><a title="title" href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/file:///C:/Users/Norma/Documents/SaneVax/Press%20Releases/Norma/03.11.2013-Gardasil-DNA-non-B-conformation.doc#_edn2">[2]</a></sup></p> </div> OUR FAMILY'S ROLLER COASTER RIDE: COURTESY OF GARDASIL 2013-03-11T02:13:19+00:00 2013-03-11T02:13:19+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/336-our-familys-roller-coaster-ride-courtesy-of-gardasil <div class="feed-description"><h1 dir="ltr" id="internal-source-marker_0.00770825195070296"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">By Roxie Fiste  Posted 10 March 2013</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Imagine for a moment having a daughter with everything going for her. She’s bright, outgoing, athletic, kind and compassionate. She excels at everything she tries. No parent could ask for more. All parental bias aside, this was our daughter Brittney before Gardasil.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">When Brittney received her first Gardasil injection in June of 2007, we were told that the only real risk involved was the possibility of her fainting shortly after the shot was administered. She didn’t react within the 15-minute window during which the medical staff monitored her, so we thought we had nothing to worry about.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">When she passed out the next morning on our family room floor and got up wondering what had happened, Britt chalked it up to the possibility of being dehydrated. This had happened to her once several years before, so she didn’t think much of it. She was so unconcerned she didn’t even mention the incident until over a week later. By this time, she had experienced two other unusual episodes.</span></p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><h1 dir="ltr" id="internal-source-marker_0.00770825195070296"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">By Roxie Fiste  Posted 10 March 2013</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Imagine for a moment having a daughter with everything going for her. She’s bright, outgoing, athletic, kind and compassionate. She excels at everything she tries. No parent could ask for more. All parental bias aside, this was our daughter Brittney before Gardasil.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">When Brittney received her first Gardasil injection in June of 2007, we were told that the only real risk involved was the possibility of her fainting shortly after the shot was administered. She didn’t react within the 15-minute window during which the medical staff monitored her, so we thought we had nothing to worry about.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">When she passed out the next morning on our family room floor and got up wondering what had happened, Britt chalked it up to the possibility of being dehydrated. This had happened to her once several years before, so she didn’t think much of it. She was so unconcerned she didn’t even mention the incident until over a week later. By this time, she had experienced two other unusual episodes.</span></p> </div> NEWLY DEVELOPED METHOD MAY ANSWER QUESTIONS REGARDING HPV VACCINE SAFETY 2013-01-01T20:06:13+00:00 2013-01-01T20:06:13+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/335-newly-developed-method-may-answer-questions-regarding-hpv-vaccine-safety <div class="feed-description"><p><b>SaneVax:  Posted 31 December 2012</b></p> <div id="story_subheadline">TROY, Mont.--(<span class="author source-org vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="provider publisher copyrightHolder" itemid="http://www.businesswire.com"><span class="org fn" itemprop="name"><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/" itemprop="url">BUSINESS WIRE</a></span></span>)--SaneVax Inc. announces the development of a new PCR methodology described in “<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirp.org%2Fjournal%2FPaperInformation.aspx%3FpaperID%3D25840&esheet=50518335&lan=en-US&anchor=Detection+of+human+papillomavirus+L1+gene+DNA+fragments+in+post-mortem+blood+and+spleen+after+Gardasil%C2%AE+vaccination+%E2%80%93+A+case+report&index=1&md5=a0b8d49524a7a938187f0ee9a9858fe6" target="_blank">Detection of human papillomavirus L1 gene DNA fragments in post-mortem blood and spleen after Gardasil® vaccination – A case report</a>,” authored by Dr. Sin Hang Lee of Milford Hospital, Connecticut. This method may provide a way for concerned scientists to determine whether or not HPV vaccines are linked to serious adverse events and death. The study undertaken to develop this method was commissioned and sponsored by SaneVax Inc. for a future payment not to exceed one US dollar, as disclosed in the article.   </div> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" /> <blockquote /> <p>“Hopefully, publication of the complete methodology will encourage other concerned scientists to investigate whether a link exists between the persistence of HPV DNA fragments and adverse reactions in HPV vaccine recipients.”</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><p><b>SaneVax:  Posted 31 December 2012</b></p> <div id="story_subheadline">TROY, Mont.--(<span class="author source-org vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="provider publisher copyrightHolder" itemid="http://www.businesswire.com"><span class="org fn" itemprop="name"><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/" itemprop="url">BUSINESS WIRE</a></span></span>)--SaneVax Inc. announces the development of a new PCR methodology described in “<a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scirp.org%2Fjournal%2FPaperInformation.aspx%3FpaperID%3D25840&esheet=50518335&lan=en-US&anchor=Detection+of+human+papillomavirus+L1+gene+DNA+fragments+in+post-mortem+blood+and+spleen+after+Gardasil%C2%AE+vaccination+%E2%80%93+A+case+report&index=1&md5=a0b8d49524a7a938187f0ee9a9858fe6" target="_blank">Detection of human papillomavirus L1 gene DNA fragments in post-mortem blood and spleen after Gardasil® vaccination – A case report</a>,” authored by Dr. Sin Hang Lee of Milford Hospital, Connecticut. This method may provide a way for concerned scientists to determine whether or not HPV vaccines are linked to serious adverse events and death. The study undertaken to develop this method was commissioned and sponsored by SaneVax Inc. for a future payment not to exceed one US dollar, as disclosed in the article.   </div> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" /> <blockquote /> <p>“Hopefully, publication of the complete methodology will encourage other concerned scientists to investigate whether a link exists between the persistence of HPV DNA fragments and adverse reactions in HPV vaccine recipients.”</p> </div> KIWI MUM'S GRATITUDE TO GARDASIL 2012-12-10T21:13:36+00:00 2012-12-10T21:13:36+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/334-kiwi-mums-gratitude-to-gardasil <div class="feed-description"><p>I would like to take this opportunity to thank Merck for introducing me to Gardasil, if this had not happened, my life would not have taken the course that it has and I would never have met such wonderful people.  </p> <p>Firstly, Gardasil rudely entered my house uninvited and through the back door and much like a chameleon changed itself from day to day.  It would never present itself fully but instead showed many different sides.  Similar to an evil entity, it possessed my daughter to such a degree that not only had it made itself at home, it was very unwelcome.  </p> <p>Over the course of several months, my daughter’s health and well being had declined to a very distressing level.  I felt helpless until the day I confronted it.  That was the day I opened the door,  picked up Gardasil and kicked it back to the scumpit cesspool from where it came.  From there on it became my job to also send it’s multiple layers packing , bit by bit with the right treatments.</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><p>I would like to take this opportunity to thank Merck for introducing me to Gardasil, if this had not happened, my life would not have taken the course that it has and I would never have met such wonderful people.  </p> <p>Firstly, Gardasil rudely entered my house uninvited and through the back door and much like a chameleon changed itself from day to day.  It would never present itself fully but instead showed many different sides.  Similar to an evil entity, it possessed my daughter to such a degree that not only had it made itself at home, it was very unwelcome.  </p> <p>Over the course of several months, my daughter’s health and well being had declined to a very distressing level.  I felt helpless until the day I confronted it.  That was the day I opened the door,  picked up Gardasil and kicked it back to the scumpit cesspool from where it came.  From there on it became my job to also send it’s multiple layers packing , bit by bit with the right treatments.</p> </div> VITAMINS MAY BE ALTERNATIVE TO HPV VACCINE 2012-12-03T03:33:04+00:00 2012-12-03T03:33:04+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/333-vitamins-may-be-alternative-to-hpv-vaccine <div class="feed-description"><div class="article_content" /> <p>BY  <a href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz//greenliving/author/mcook">Michelle Schoffro Cook</a></p> <p>The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine has been surrounded by controversy  since it was first commercialized. This could be partly due to the fact that it  has had no long term testing, is injected into female children, and there have  been serious side effects and even deaths linked to its use. So when I came  across a study that shows two vitamins may help prevent the HPV virus from  spreading, I wanted to share this exciting research.</p> <p>A team of scientists led by C. J. Piyathilake at the Department of Nutrition  Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, attempted to determine  whether supplementation with folate (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12 would have an  effect on the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer linked to this  virus among women.</p> <p>They attempted to identify any associations between serum concentrations of  folate and vitamin B12 and high risk HPV infections by evaluating 724 women in a  screening study in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.</p> <p>They found that women with the highest concentrations of serum folate and  vitamin B12 had the lowest risk of being positive for high risk HPV compared to  those with lower levels of serum folate and serum vitamin B12.</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><div class="article_content" /> <p>BY  <a href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz//greenliving/author/mcook">Michelle Schoffro Cook</a></p> <p>The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine has been surrounded by controversy  since it was first commercialized. This could be partly due to the fact that it  has had no long term testing, is injected into female children, and there have  been serious side effects and even deaths linked to its use. So when I came  across a study that shows two vitamins may help prevent the HPV virus from  spreading, I wanted to share this exciting research.</p> <p>A team of scientists led by C. J. Piyathilake at the Department of Nutrition  Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, attempted to determine  whether supplementation with folate (vitamin B9) and vitamin B12 would have an  effect on the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer linked to this  virus among women.</p> <p>They attempted to identify any associations between serum concentrations of  folate and vitamin B12 and high risk HPV infections by evaluating 724 women in a  screening study in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.</p> <p>They found that women with the highest concentrations of serum folate and  vitamin B12 had the lowest risk of being positive for high risk HPV compared to  those with lower levels of serum folate and serum vitamin B12.</p> </div> DID GARDASIL KILL JASMINE? 2012-11-21T20:14:48+00:00 2012-11-21T20:14:48+00:00 http://www.offtheradar.co.nz/index.php/vaccines/331-did-gardasil-kill-jasmine <div class="feed-description"><p>BY:- Hilary Butler - Thursday, May 26, 2011</p> <div class="post-body" /> <p>How much does the medical system know about the total hardware of the immune system, and how all parts interconnect? As you’ve seen in the last few blogs, their understanding is crucially hampered by what they now know they don’t understand. The problem is, most parents have no idea of the extent of their immunological “blindness”. Definitive knowledge of the innate immunity, our first defences, resembles a big black hole called “ignorance”. Immunologist appear to be like tree experts, walking in huge forest, saying, <em><strong>“Oh yeah, I recognise that clump of trees – they are antibodies, but I don’t know what they have to do with those ones. Wonder what these are? And those are....”</strong></em> and so it goes on.</p> <p>Vaccines are presented as if antibodies are wonderful and the only thing that matters. Gardasil is a particular case in point in that regard, because the antibodies provoked by the vaccine, are hundreds of times higher than the antibodies created under conditions of natural immunity. Is that a good thing? Gardasil’s inventor thinks so (<a href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz//_literature_86749/Jasmine_Fraser_God's_gift_to_women" shape="rect">God’s gift to women</a>) without wondering for a moment about the consequences of generating vastly higher levels of antibodies than an actual infection could have ever created.</p> </div> <div class="feed-description"><p>BY:- Hilary Butler - Thursday, May 26, 2011</p> <div class="post-body" /> <p>How much does the medical system know about the total hardware of the immune system, and how all parts interconnect? As you’ve seen in the last few blogs, their understanding is crucially hampered by what they now know they don’t understand. The problem is, most parents have no idea of the extent of their immunological “blindness”. Definitive knowledge of the innate immunity, our first defences, resembles a big black hole called “ignorance”. Immunologist appear to be like tree experts, walking in huge forest, saying, <em><strong>“Oh yeah, I recognise that clump of trees – they are antibodies, but I don’t know what they have to do with those ones. Wonder what these are? And those are....”</strong></em> and so it goes on.</p> <p>Vaccines are presented as if antibodies are wonderful and the only thing that matters. Gardasil is a particular case in point in that regard, because the antibodies provoked by the vaccine, are hundreds of times higher than the antibodies created under conditions of natural immunity. Is that a good thing? Gardasil’s inventor thinks so (<a href="http://www.offtheradar.co.nz//_literature_86749/Jasmine_Fraser_God's_gift_to_women" shape="rect">God’s gift to women</a>) without wondering for a moment about the consequences of generating vastly higher levels of antibodies than an actual infection could have ever created.</p> </div>