Freedom of Information Officer confirms 50,000 faulty HPV jab leaflets

9 June 2009

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Dear Ms Filby,
 
Thank you for your email of 19 May requesting, under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, information relating to the revision of the factsheet entitled Beating Cervical Cancer: The Facts.  Your email has been passed to me for reply.

You have raised a number of questions, which I have answered in turn.

The Department printed 50,000 copies in May 2008 of the HPV factsheet, The human papillomavirus: The virus, the diseases and the new HPV vaccine.  These were distributed during the summer to Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and GPs in support of the HPV immunisation campaign starting in September 2008.  The factsheet and other materials were also published at www.immunisation.nhs.uk.

No recall took place.  The printed factsheets had been widely distributed before the revised version was produced, and a recall would have been extremely difficult.

•      Please would you also inform me of the date of any print runs which have included the revised safety information, as per my FOI question dated 1st October 08 which pointed out the error in the statistics.

Under current policy, factsheets are web-only after the initial distribution and therefore there have been no reprints.  The revised factsheet was published at: www.immunisation.nhs.uk.   We understand that most of the target audience uses web-based information as a primary source. 

•      Could you also let me know whether an Erratum/Corrigendum message was ever sent out to make the safety information clear and accurate? If so, please inform me of the date, the wording and the number of copies sent out.

No erratum slips were printed or distributed to PCTs and GPs.

You may be interested to learn that there were 600,000 girls and young women in the first cohorts eligible for HPV immunisation from September 2008.  The accelerated catch-up programme has now made the vaccine available to greater numbers from April 2009, and this programme is supported by online resources.

I hope this reply is helpful.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
 
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Head of the Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health
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SW1A 2NS
  

22.5.09

Management in Practice ask if the vaccination programme should increase further


Grace Filby writes:


I've replied to yet another HPV vaccine online government propaganda announcement at

as follows:


No, the vaccination uptake does not need to increase further.

 

It is an exaggeration to say that it is crucial that the girls have these injections. The NHS staff have instructions to ensure that the programme is carried out but that is not the same thing as saying it is crucial for medical reasons.

 

There are various reasons why every girl needs to consider the pros and cons for herself.

 

First, there is a risk with any vaccine. This is why Cervarix is listed for the compensation payments scheme.

 

Secondly, I can assure you from my FOI question last October, that the NHS leaflet "Beating Cervical Cancer - the facts" has a major error in it on p.13 on the question of safety figures. I do not know if the current printed copies have been corrected, but certainly the old, incorrect wording was still accessible online on 14th May - the day after Dawn Primarolo's speech in reply to my MP Crispin Blunt's debate.  Here in Reigate there is a girl who has been increasingly crippled by the 3 injections and now the only help on offer is from private holistic therapy - osteopathy and homeopathy - fortunately, free of charge.

 

Thirdly, it is important to point out that there are other ways of preventing the spread of HPV viruses. These include the word No, the use of condoms, male circumcision, careful hygiene, clean clothes and bedsheets (and sunlight kills bacteria and viruses) - and of course, good nutrition, exercise and rest for a strong immune system. 

 

Q: Is there a drug to counteract the side effects of the vaccine Cervarix?



A: Some, or most of the negative side effects of the vaccine may be reversed by the actual vaccine in homeopathic potency, but adjunctive homeopathic treatment may be required as well - this information is from an associate who is a qualified and experienced homeopath.

Holistic Health Alliance www.askhha.info
13.1.09

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'The exact mechanisms that cause the conditions aren't clear, but about 60 per cent of those affected will have had a throat or intestinal infection, flu or MAJOR STRESS within the previous two weeks.'

Dr Tricia Macnair
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/guillainbarre1.shtml

'About sixty percent of patients suffer from a throat or intestinal infections, influenza or STRESS symptoms in the previous two weeks.'

GBS Support Group
http://www.gbs.org.uk/quickguide.html

'The disorder came to public attention briefly when it struck a number of people who received the 1976 Swine Flu VACCINE.'

GBS Foundation International
http://www.gbs-cidp.org/aboutgbs.htm

'Occasionally, surgery or VACCINATIONS will trigger the syndrome. The disorder can develop over the course of hours or days, or it may take up to 3 to 4 weeks.'

National Institutes of Health
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gbs/gbs.htm

'All forms of Guillain-Barré syndrome are due to an immune response to foreign antigens (such as infectious agents or VACCINES)'

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barr%C3%A9_syndrome

'there was an unexpected increase — by a factor of four to eight — in the number of cases of the Guillain–Barré syndrome after a government-sponsored mass-inoculation program in which 45 million adults in the United States received VACCINE'

New England Journal of Medicine
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/339/25/1845

'does he not even know the known symptoms of poisoning of some of the VACCINE ingredients. Tween 80 and borax have effects of poisoning such as this' ... 'I could think of no better advert for parents to question vaccine safety'.

JABS Forum
http://www.jabs.org.uk:80/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3357

'When new medicines come on to the market, we have only limited information about their safety. The new medicine will have been tested in clinical trials. However, these trials generally involve only small numbers of patients who take the medicine for a relatively short period of time, and there are strict conditions for the inclusion of patients in such trials.

This means that the patients in whom the medicines are tested may not be fully representative of the patients who will use the medicine when it is marketed. In addition, it is not until large numbers of patients have taken a drug that we can detect side effects which are rare or which appear after long-term use.

Close monitoring of new medicines once they are being more widely used in the general population enables us to identify such side effects and take appropriate action.'

MHRA - Black Triangle Drugs
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Safetyinfo.......

'Because VACCINATION can trigger the condition, your grandson’s physicians are correct in denying flu shots.'

Dr Gott, New York
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2008/12/16/.......

Sourced: 18.12.08 - Capital letters:GF

Anon. Strictly Copyright: Designs For Wellbeing 2008

Thus spake a stranger cloaked in leaf of green,
Awakened by dark dreams of works obscene.
Dwarfed by King Pharma’s size, his ground he stood
Defining what should not be – and what should:

“What foul, insidious mischief stalks this earth?
That maids not yet of age to bear and birth
Should find themselves bestuck by your two cocks;
Twin princes: Gardasol and Cervarox?”

King Pharma laughed a laugh of 'laissez faire',
His multi product breath made sweet the air.
“My uncle was King Mammon you well know
But I eclipsed his glory long ago.”

“Dark advertising angels bowed his throne
Seducing all in what to do and own
While power-mad governments just followed on
Until all trace of Nature’s laws was gone.”

“Now on the back of great constructed need
;Licentiousness, on which the masses feed;
Ill health, disease and angst fill heart and mind         
With my ‘proprietaries’ not far behind!”

“I’m set to make a killing ‘saving life’
Now copulation’s cheap and running rife.
What care I fornication leaves kids cold?
I shall out-Midas Midas with my gold!”

The knotted brow and deeply berried eyes
Considered this old knave, in Kingly guise;
Surveyed King Pharma, half contempt, half grief.
And then was gone ... but for a single leaf.

The leaf – ignored – began to mould and spore!
It rose unseen when servants swept the floor
And turned the gold – of Pharma’s monstrous hoard;
To noble dust, that he could ill afford.

'Twas then word came that damsels oft fell sick
To one or other careless Princely Prick.
While gold-turned-mould, back home now worked its will
As one by one King Pharma’s court fell ill.

King Pharma’s wife fell sick, his daughters too;
Their intuitions he already knew.
They'd warned him of his folly long before;
Now came a certain knock upon the door.

The Green Man stood before him – taller now.
King Pharma made a low, instinctive bow.
“What must I do, this pestilence to ward?
Abject contrition all I can afford.”

“That more than pays all dues,” the Man replied.
“No man-made compound from my spores can hide.
With your ampoules and phials e’en as we speak
My myriad armies now play hide and seek.”

From his green cloak he plucked a second leaf.
The sick through its infusion found relief;
Then taking leave returned whence he had come.
Nature still reigned; with man still just as dumb.

All Maids grew unmolested, fit and strong.
As wives and mothers they lived hale and long.
King Pharma took to nature – almost manic
Went in for farming – strictly: all organic!