Charlie Prime
Paranormal Adept
The Merck corporate representative and the government official who pays Merck say it's just "mass hysteria".
Farmers tend to be practical people. I doubt some poor-azz farmer would spending the gasoline necessary to drive for hours taking his daughter to the hospital unless it was absolutely necessary.
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Mystery illness plagues girls in Colombia - Yahoo News
"Mystery illness plagues girls in Colombia
September 18, 2014
"They vaccinated me in May and I started fainting in August. My legs became heavy and I couldn't feel my hands anymore. When I woke up, I was in the hospital," recalled 15-year-old Eva Mercado.
The city's modest Nuestra Senora del Carmen hospital has been overwhelmed by a surge of unconscious teenage girls being wheeled through its doors. Panicked fathers bring their daughters to the facility aboard their motorcycles, using the town's dirt roads.
"I am desperate," said William Montes, a farmer who traveled down a mountain with his two daughters in a hammock to get them treated in town.
US drug giant Merck, which makes the Gardasil vaccine, said it was "confident in the safety profile" of its product.
Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria was met with boos and burned tires during a recent visit. While promising a series of measures -- gathering data on patients, setting up new tests, providing psychological counseling -- the minister stopped short of suspending the vaccinations."
Farmers tend to be practical people. I doubt some poor-azz farmer would spending the gasoline necessary to drive for hours taking his daughter to the hospital unless it was absolutely necessary.
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Mystery illness plagues girls in Colombia - Yahoo News
"Mystery illness plagues girls in Colombia
September 18, 2014
"They vaccinated me in May and I started fainting in August. My legs became heavy and I couldn't feel my hands anymore. When I woke up, I was in the hospital," recalled 15-year-old Eva Mercado.
The city's modest Nuestra Senora del Carmen hospital has been overwhelmed by a surge of unconscious teenage girls being wheeled through its doors. Panicked fathers bring their daughters to the facility aboard their motorcycles, using the town's dirt roads.
"I am desperate," said William Montes, a farmer who traveled down a mountain with his two daughters in a hammock to get them treated in town.
US drug giant Merck, which makes the Gardasil vaccine, said it was "confident in the safety profile" of its product.
Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria was met with boos and burned tires during a recent visit. While promising a series of measures -- gathering data on patients, setting up new tests, providing psychological counseling -- the minister stopped short of suspending the vaccinations."
