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According to a report released last month by the conservative, nonpartisan group Judicial Watch, a government database had received 8,864 reports of potential inauspicious events as of June 10 from the vaccine since FDA approved it in 2006. CDC representative Curtis Allen said government and Merck officials reckon at all reports of adverse events to look for patterns, adding, “From the information we make seen to date, the vaccine is safe and effective.”

FDA representative Karen Riley said that the updated information on potential adverse reactions has “nothing to do” with reports of possible severe reactions to the vaccine, adding that the update was made at Merck’s request to address electric potential “mild” symptoms. “The hindquarters line is that we have non seen whatever safety signals in the adverse events other than” fainting, Riley said, adding, “We proceed to count at these reports.” Merck spokesperson Amy Rose aforementioned that she does not have “whatever reason to believe” the changes ar “anything other than a routine update.” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said that the radical is “not convinced” that the government is “taking these reports seriously” and is vocation for “further investigation of its safety” (Washington Times, 7/10).

According to Merck, 11,000 girls and women received the vaccine before it was approved, and 16 million doses have been distributed in the U.S. since approval (Fagan, Washington Times, 7/10). Gardasil in clinical trials has been shown to prevent infection with HPV strains 16 and 18, which together lawsuit about 70% of cervical cancer cases, and to prevent infection with HPV strains 6 and 11, which cause about 90% of venereal warts cases (Daily Women’s Health Policy Report, 7/8).

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