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Flat Gardasil sales trigger Merck sell-off

A one-two punch for Merck's Gardasil yesterday: First, a market analyst downgraded the company's stock largely because of flat sales of the human papilloma virus vaccine. Gardasil sales have fallen short of expectations, in fact, for the past two quarters; Merck blamed the slowing growth on seasonal issues. But, says UBS's Roopesh Patel, the second quarter ought to be different, and so sales ought to take a leap upward. But he's calculated Gardasil revenues at $300 million this quarter, just slightly more than $293 million in the first quarter. The sales trends "don't look encouraging," he says. Discouraged investors triggered a sizable drop for Merck's shares.

Second, CBS News ran a piece about reported side effects. The story cited some 8,000 adverse event reports and offered details of a few serious ones--seizures, chronic pain, paralysis, and death from blood clots. Of course these reports are anecdotal; there's no proven causal link between the vaccine and the medical problems girls subsequently developed. But publicity about them can be enough to throw nervous parents off--and the story is already proliferating on other TV news programs and across the web.

- see the market story at Pharmalot
- check out the Wall Street Journal article
- read the CBS News report

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Comments

The presence of boric acid, polysorbate 80, NaCl,
(salt) with aluminum hydroxide creates a powerful detergent like vaccine that allows solubilization of proteins,membranes and myelins.
Gardasil is a trojan horse vaccine, PS 80 and L-
histidine takes all the chemicals and viral particles down through the blood brain barrier(BBB)to the central nervous system(CNS).This vaccine is designed by an evil person, as each ingredients enhance the others and increase ionic
strength and detergency.It is a synergistic neurotoxin.Aluminum hydroxide is a known neurotoxin, in mice studies (C.Shaw Ph.D)35% of the neurons destroyed themselves.Aluminum is also a mitochondrial toxin and it appears that ATP (cellular energy) is lost due to the chemical insults to the mitochondrial membrane.
I am a health professional and spent over 8 months on data review on Gardasil. Cumulative symptoms analysis (from VAERS data base) support the above statements.Boric acid is also a powerful detergent and a banned substance in many countries. I do not understand how boric acid made it into the vaccines. It contains low level of heavy metals: lead,mercury,arsenic.
Your FDA and CDC works for Merck, I call this a total shameful system failure.Our family and friends are boycotting all Merck products.

"Merck's (MRK) Gardasil HPV vaccine has been under fire for awhile now from some groups in the US, and oddly has even been asked to carry a safety warning by the FDA, despite science showing the warning should not be there."

links.seekingalpha.com/links/51478/133/174187/1223

industry.bnet.com/pharma/1000332/fda-study-says-mercks-gardasil-is-safe-vexing-media-and-activists/

"The [CDC} study looked at girls injected over two years and didn’t find any evidence that the vaccine is dangerous. This comes on top of eleven and a half years of trials on Gardasil and its competitor, GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix. Gardasil alone has been through more than 16 million doses. From all that, there are currently only 10,326 adverse event reports. Of those, only 6 percent are serious. And of those, only 27 were deaths. Drilling down further, we find that only three — 3!!! — of those fatalities were unexplained. All the others occured in people with drug problems, had heart failure, meningitis, etc. .... About 15 percent of American girls and younger women have now received the shot, so an epidemic of side effects should have shown up by now. It has not. Certainly it is true that the CDC should not always be taken at its word. But the big Gardasil adverse event scandal is increasingly conspicuous by its absence. Thus it is time for all those reporters, lawyers and activists to start explaining to their audiences that perhaps, just perhaps, this is one vaccine that isn’t actually harmful. "

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