28 Women Miscarry After Receiving Gardasil HPV

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28 Women Miscarry After Receiving Gardasil HPV Vaccination; FDA

Not Concerned (NaturalNews) Since the approval of human

papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil in June 2006, 28 cases have been

reported of pregnant women miscarrying after receiving the vaccine.

Saying that this miscarriage rate is no different than that of the

general population, the FDA has said that it will not call for further

investigations into the drug's safety.

The miscarriage reports come from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting

System (VAERS), which contains raw data about any event that occurs after

taking a medication that might be related to use of the drug.

Gardasil, produced by Merck, protects against two strains of

HPV that have been

identified as responsible for 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, plus

two strains that cause 90 percent of genital warts. A total of 3,461

negative reactions after taking

Gardasil were

reported to the database, including eight deaths.

Of the 28 reported miscarriages, several were listed as cause unknown,

leading a federal investigator to say that one of these, at least,

" may have been caused by Gardasil because the patient received the

injection within 30 days of the pregnancy. "

In clinical trials conducted by Merck, the number of women who had

miscarriages after being given the vaccine was not significantly

different than the number among those given a placebo. In addition, the

company points to studies on rats in which 300 times the human dose

failed to produce reproductive effects. But the company's literature on

the drug says, " It is not known whether Gardasil should be given to

pregnant women. "

Three U.S. states have passed laws mandating HPV vaccines for school-age

girls, and 38 other states have considered similar laws. The American

College of Pediatrics and " New England Journal of Medicine, "

however, have opposed mandatory

vaccination

with Gardasil.