It may well be the case that there has been a reduction in genital warts but this does not mean there is a reduction in cervical cancer. There is no proof that HPV vaccines Gardasil or Cervarix have prevented a single case of cervical cancer and wasn’t that the point of the vaccine.

As these HPV vaccines are promoted for more and more conditions such as anal and penile cancers and now for the prevention of head and neck cancers I wonder if cervical cancer was really the main game or rather the fear of this woman’s cancer was used to argue for research and capital and the development of this dirty vaccine.

The media hype was extraordinary with the public made fearful about a cancer which in Australia is responsible for around 220 deaths a year with the deaths occurring in older women most of whom had not had Pap smears.

In 2013 Australia began vaccinating teenage boys with Gardasil and many now suffer from its devastating side effects. There are reports of serious problems such as syncope and seizures. Reading through the 70 plus pages of events on the TGA website dating from the middle of 2013 until December 2017 it is clear that they are suffering in a similar way to the girls with neurological, cardiac, allergic, and gastrointestinal disorders to name just a few of the life altering conditions that are associated with this vaccination program.

To extend this vaccine to Irish boys is the wrong decision.

One of the reasons cited for the extension of the vaccine to boys is that the vaccine may prevent anal cancer but such cancers are rare and more commonly diagnosed in people aged 50 to 60 years. Then there is the purported risk of penile cancer which is also relatively rare globally with an annual incidence of less than 1 case per 100,000 person in western countries. The other reason cited is to stop transfer of HPV to girls and therefore act against cervical cancer but once again there is no scientific proof that HPV causes cervical cancer.

The side effects are likely to manifest in fertility problems for boys. We are already seeing many girls post vaccination experiencing early menopause. This is all very tragic and totally unnecessary.

Studies for male fertility and the male reproductive effects post-Gardasil, were limited at best. Internationally, there are already reports of boys and young men reporting erectile dysfunction and other new medical conditions post-Gardasil.

The carnage in the wake of this HPV vaccination program is very real with over 400 reported deaths occurring in previously healthy young girls. Sadly there are now reports of fatalities in boys and in January 2018 Colton Berrett from Utah took his own life after struggling for years with massive health issues that occurred directly after receiving Gardasil.

Just before going on a Scouting trip, he went in for a medical exam. His doctor advised him, and his parents, to take the HPV vaccine because, according to his doctor: “It can help prevent cancer”. He was told that even if he was not promiscuous, he could in the future potentially pass HPV on to his wife.

Two weeks after his third course of Gardasil , Colton was experiencing a sore neck. Then serious lethargy came. Then paralysis in his right arm and hand. The scans showed that Colton had serious inflammation from the C1 to T12 vertebrae. He was given an initial diagnosis of transverse myelitis.

Those who knew Colton said that he didn’t complain but his life was tough. He was permanently connected to a ventilator, dependent on constant therapy and at such a young age and all for a disease he was never going to get.

In Colton’s case the doctors recognised that he was experiencing a serious adverse reaction to the Gardasil vaccine and reported it to Vaers, the vaccine adverse event reporting register. Another life gone and untold grief for his family.

It is a tragedy and one that was completely avoidable.

In July 2017 UK boys and their parents were able to breathe a sigh of relief after the decision was made not to vaccinate boys against the human papilloma virus (HPV).  The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation(JCVI) had been considering whether to include boys along with girls in the current vaccination program since 2014. There have been ongoing campaigns aimed at a ‘gender-neutral‘ approach to the vaccination, that would make sure that 400,000 school-age boys are able to access HPV vaccines. The committee made its recent decision based on their findings that it wouldn’t be cost-effective to vaccinate boys along with girls. Unlike the situation in the UK, in Australia there was no such deliberation and in 2013 we became the first country to extend our HPV vaccination program to boys. Ireland now joins the group of countries that have rushed to vaccinate teenage boys along with its girls. None of us can afford to relax while this disastrous vaccine is out there.

See: Gardasil: Fast-Tracked and Flawed