American Chronicle
By Christina England
May 10, 2009
Diane Harper involved in the testing Cervarix when GSK conducted safety trials, has very different views and questions the vaccines safety. The director of the Gynaecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, in the USA, firmly believes more should have been done before the vaccine was implemented. She feels more testing should have taken place to establish to efficiency of Cervarix. She said We can’t tell you it is 100% safe because we don’t know that In five years it will be pretty clear how safe it really is because 70% of adverse events occur within five years. That way we would have a good sense of comfort and you can reassure your population. She states in an email to Freda Birrell an active campaigner in Scotland who has been campaigning for the removal of Cervarix and Gardasil that “The issue for both vaccines (Cervarix and Gardasil) is that it is just as effective if given to young women who are already sexually active, instead of young girls – given the propensity for young girls to still develop their neurological systems, it seems wise to wait until the girls are a bit older. There is no particular reason to go for 11 year olds.”