Thursday, January 8, 2009
Merck Pushes Gardasil for Boys in Further Effort to Profit off Your Children!
Multi-billion dollar multi-national Big Drug company Merck — who foisted Vioxx and other known failed drugs on the unsuspecting, gullible, naive, and generally television addicted American public — has now asked the Federal Drug Administration to approve Gardasil — Gardasil! — for boys.
You did read that correctly, for boys. If you thought parenting boys meant you were off the hook on having to decide whether or not to go with the Gardasil shot, listen up.
Gardasil, the so-called HPV prevention shot [HPV stands for Help Pay for Vioxx] aimed at girls ages 9 to 26 [girls aged 9!], has been submitted to the FDA by drug kingpin Merck for consideration as a vaccine for boys [for boys!]
Obviously, even Merck could not convice the FDA to prevent cervical cancers in boys. (Even the FDA would probably eventually figure out that boys do not have cervixes, at least by Round 3 of the clinical trials.]
But, conveniently, a Merck-funded study tracked 4,000 boys ages 16 to 26 who were given Gardasil and found it prevented 90% of cases of penile cancer and genital warts caused by the 4 common virus strains targeted by the vaccine.
Of course, the study only lasted 5 years so those same boys are now aged 21 to 31, and penile cancer does not normally present until a person reaches age 50, but don’t look at that man behind the curtain, just focus on this miracle drug that we want to put inside your child’s body.
Anyway, penile cancer is so extremely rare at only 1 in 100,000 men that worrying about preventing it is like worrying about preventing being attacked by a swarm of locusts.
Merck’s proposal calls for the vaccine to be approved for boys in the same age group as that already approved for girls – 9 to 26 – and all reports indicate it would come at a similar huge $360.00 cost to you as a parent and taxpayer and similar huge profit to Merck as a multi-billion dollar corporation.
But don’t worry, once Obama passes national health care the government will pay for it, so we have nothing to worry about and everything will be fine. [What? We have to pay for national health care with our tax dollars? Says who. . .]
The 3-series Gardasil shot has drawn controversy for its $360.00 pricetag in the past [which by the way is pure profit for Merck at this point because their investment in development has already been made, and getting it approved for boys is just gravy to pad their profit margins].
Parents have had mixed reactions to the drug vaccine, some driving over in their cars to have it painfully injected into their children’s bodies via a long sharp needle by an inexperinced an untrained “nurse’s assistant” just to be on the safe side [these parents are also known as sheep]. Other parents [also known as the good parents] say Gardasil has caused paralysis in their daughters [which Merck admits to in their discussion of side effects, but don't bother to read these pamphlets that they hand out in the doctor's office. The print is so small and their is a new copy of People magazine available to pass the time in the waiting room.]
Another strategy for preventing your 9-year old daughter from getting human papilloma virus or for your 9-year old son getting genital warts is to actually be engaged in your children’s lives, monitor their activities and friends, and teach them — yes, you teach your children — that they should not have sexual intercourse when they are 9 years old.
But if that sounds too tough — and there is a good game on television that you want to watch instead — then just hand your kids over to the Merck Corporation and let Merck shoot them up with drugs. I’m sure Merck’s drugs are perfectly safe (Vioxx, Cordaptive, Singulair, Fosamax).
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