Showing posts with label Merck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merck. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2018

CONFIRMED! Court Ruling: HPV Vaccine Gardasil KILLS


The Tarsell’s 21-year-old daughter Christina Richelle “died from an arrhythmia induced by an autoimmune response” to Gardasil, an HPV vaccine that she received only days before her death. Her family undertook a long and drawn out battle with the government over her death, only for every parents’ worst fears to be confirmed.


The Tarsell family fought against the United States government eight long years to validate a medical burden of proof that the Gardasil vaccine (often declared the “cervical cancer vaccine”) killed their daughter.  Richelle died just days after receiving the vaccine. Will this vaccine kill everyone? Absolutely not.  But the government should not be hiding the risks, which obviously include death, especially when demanding by law this vaccine be administered. 


The final ruling has been confirmed by the Department of Health and Human Services: Merck’s Gardasil vaccine causes autoimmune problems that cause sudden debilitation and/or death. If the young girl had been gunned down by a madman with an AR-15, then there’d be national headlines and a march on Washington. Since this young woman was “shot” to death by a vaccine, the whole story gets swept under the rug. -Natural News


Hopefully, with the help of other websites such as Natural News, awareness about the side effects of vaccines, which include death, should be made public.  Although the mainstream media cannot be bothered to report on the failure of vaccines, it is important that all the information be made available before having anything injected into yourself or your children.


The Gardasil vaccine is responsible for ending the lives of 271 young women to date, according to over 57,520 adverse event reports obtained from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. As stated by Natural News, if 271 young people died in a school shooting, the news coverage would be nonstop in support of gun bans. How about a ban on Gardasil – a real modern day assault weapon?


The Tarsell’s case was initially taken up by the Vaccine Court, which is a payout system most have never even heard about. It was set up by the United States government to compensate families for vaccine damage. Vaccine makers pay an excise tax into this system for every vaccine they sell. This money (cost of doing business) is used to pay out damages to select families who can medically prove they were damaged by a vaccine. This system protects vaccine makers from being sued in a true court of law, ensuring that vaccines will continue to be manufactured for the “good of all.”


Meaning, the government protects vaccine manufacturers, but cannot be bothered to protect your basic human rights, like standing up to vaccine manufacturers who attempt to harm your right to life.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Merck Will Give Young Mothers The Most Dangerous Vaccine Of All, Trial (VIDEO)

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By Markab Algedi, Edge Canopy | 


The University of Alabama at Birmingham recently announced a collaboration with pharmaceutical behemoth vaccine producer Merck, to perform Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine trials on postpartum mothers between the ages of 16 and 26, immediately after having their children at the UAB hospital.


The researchers somehow believe not enough people are being vaccinated for HPV, and the desired outcome of the study is officially to get more young women vaccinated.


According to Vaccine Impact:


“”Merck and UAB want to test the vaccine on 16 to 26 year old postpartum mothers because “the immune response in young women is less robust than in adolescents,” and because “no studies have examined immunogenicity in postpartum women specifically.”


Therefore, 16 to 26 year old young mothers who have just given birth at the UAB hospital will become test subjects of the Gardasil 9 vaccine.


The study is scheduled to start on June 1, 2018.


The “Responsible Party” who apparently designed the study at UAB is Professor Warner Huh.


The contact person for the clinical vaccine trials is Sarah Dilley, MD 205-934-2749 sdilley@uabmc.edu. (Source.)”


One might be able to construct an argument solid enough to hold up in court, for the fact that the HPV vaccine Merck produces is the most dangerous vaccine on the market, whether it is Cervarix, Gardasil 9, or the other variations of the HPV vaccine that are all very similar.


The HPV vaccine is the most dangerous one on the market. The different versions of it are all similarly harmful and known to cause injury.


Here’s an oft-summarized breakdown of the evidence.


The HPV vaccine, given in 3 doses over a period of several weeks, is known to cause paralysis, the collapse of a person’s immune system, specific cancers such as leukemia, and every other problem in-between. It is usually somewhere between the second and third doses of the HPV vaccine when the serious symptoms occur.


At the very best, the HPV vaccine symptoms will be serious general malaise, tiredness, what happens when the potent endocrine disruptor mercury is injected with aluminum and “virus-like particles.”


At worst a person might die, like Colton Berrett, may he rest in peace. Well summarized by Stop Mandatory Vaccination:


“Colton was administered the third round of the Gardasil/ HPV Vaccine on February 1, 2014, about a month and a half just shy of his 14th birthday. About two weeks after, he experienced a painful neck ache following the vaccine and was given Tylenol to alleviate the pain. Adventurous by nature, the next day, Colton and his dad went motor-cross riding to use Colton’s new bike. That day when he arrived home, he became pale, started to feel nauseous, and was not well that evening – he headed to bed. Kathleen continued to check on him throughout the night and Colton expressed he could not use his right arm. Intuitively, Kathleen worried if he had spinal meningitis and if her son was going paralyzed. A mother’s or any concerned parent’s nightmare.


Colton’s dad brought Colton to urgent care at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City the next morning, on Monday, February 17, 2014. Colton was almost completely paralyzed and that was the beginning of his 88 day hospital stay. Doctors and staff discovered through speaking with Colton’s parents that he was healthy, active, and not sick, until he received the HPV Vaccine two weeks earlier and experienced the neck ache. It was agreed that Colton suffered a severe adverse reaction and vaccine injury to the Gardasil vaccine. The doctors reported his vaccine injury to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).”


It has been reported that healthy, breast-fed infants have passed away after their mothers were vaccinated with the HPV vaccine. One case cited is VAERS ID: 398755, which can be found at the VAERS database here.


While the government has become obligated to report vaccine injuries in rarely referenced VAERS reports, something called the “People’s VAERS Report” exists as well.



You’d be surprised how many people are accidentally injected with vaccines meant for different people.


Multiple people have been mistakenly injected with the HPV vaccine, notably infants or very young people who become severely injured shortly after.


One prime example was Chace Topperwein of New Zealand. The infant received an accidental injection of the HPV vaccine, and sadly lost his life from leukemia after his health declined. Hayley Willar is another person who received the HPV vaccine and got the same type of cancer, leukemia.


So now that you know about vaccine injury, this university wants to take money from the people who make these vaccines, to experiment on mothers with them. Doesn’t sound like a nice plan.


This issue is really important right now, because governments are trying to make vaccination mandatory. A non-optional, involuntary, forceful injection of something that has been proven to injure and kill is nothing short of a threat of death.


It is irrelevant whether or not authorities recognize that the HPV vaccine can kill: it can kill and can injure, and it is therefore a threat of death to force people to receive it.




This article may be freely republished with attribution to the author, and a working link back to this article at Edge Canopy.


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Merck Will Give Young Mothers The Most Dangerous Vaccine Of All, Trial (VIDEO)

Merck Will Give Young Mothers The Most Dangerous Vaccine Of All, Trial (VIDEO) | vaccine | Big Pharma General Health Medical & Health Multimedia Science & Technology Special Interests Vaccines


By Markab Algedi, Edge Canopy | 


The University of Alabama at Birmingham recently announced a collaboration with pharmaceutical behemoth vaccine producer Merck, to perform Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine trials on postpartum mothers between the ages of 16 and 26, immediately after having their children at the UAB hospital.


The researchers somehow believe not enough people are being vaccinated for HPV, and the desired outcome of the study is officially to get more young women vaccinated.


According to Vaccine Impact:


“”Merck and UAB want to test the vaccine on 16 to 26 year old postpartum mothers because “the immune response in young women is less robust than in adolescents,” and because “no studies have examined immunogenicity in postpartum women specifically.”


Therefore, 16 to 26 year old young mothers who have just given birth at the UAB hospital will become test subjects of the Gardasil 9 vaccine.


The study is scheduled to start on June 1, 2018.


The “Responsible Party” who apparently designed the study at UAB is Professor Warner Huh.


The contact person for the clinical vaccine trials is Sarah Dilley, MD 205-934-2749 sdilley@uabmc.edu. (Source.)”


One might be able to construct an argument solid enough to hold up in court, for the fact that the HPV vaccine Merck produces is the most dangerous vaccine on the market, whether it is Cervarix, Gardasil 9, or the other variations of the HPV vaccine that are all very similar.


The HPV vaccine is the most dangerous one on the market. The different versions of it are all similarly harmful and known to cause injury.


Here’s an oft-summarized breakdown of the evidence.


The HPV vaccine, given in 3 doses over a period of several weeks, is known to cause paralysis, the collapse of a person’s immune system, specific cancers such as leukemia, and every other problem in-between. It is usually somewhere between the second and third doses of the HPV vaccine when the serious symptoms occur.


At the very best, the HPV vaccine symptoms will be serious general malaise, tiredness, what happens when the potent endocrine disruptor mercury is injected with aluminum and “virus-like particles.”


At worst a person might die, like Colton Berrett, may he rest in peace. Well summarized by Stop Mandatory Vaccination:


“Colton was administered the third round of the Gardasil/ HPV Vaccine on February 1, 2014, about a month and a half just shy of his 14th birthday. About two weeks after, he experienced a painful neck ache following the vaccine and was given Tylenol to alleviate the pain. Adventurous by nature, the next day, Colton and his dad went motor-cross riding to use Colton’s new bike. That day when he arrived home, he became pale, started to feel nauseous, and was not well that evening – he headed to bed. Kathleen continued to check on him throughout the night and Colton expressed he could not use his right arm. Intuitively, Kathleen worried if he had spinal meningitis and if her son was going paralyzed. A mother’s or any concerned parent’s nightmare.


Colton’s dad brought Colton to urgent care at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City the next morning, on Monday, February 17, 2014. Colton was almost completely paralyzed and that was the beginning of his 88 day hospital stay. Doctors and staff discovered through speaking with Colton’s parents that he was healthy, active, and not sick, until he received the HPV Vaccine two weeks earlier and experienced the neck ache. It was agreed that Colton suffered a severe adverse reaction and vaccine injury to the Gardasil vaccine. The doctors reported his vaccine injury to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).”


It has been reported that healthy, breast-fed infants have passed away after their mothers were vaccinated with the HPV vaccine. One case cited is VAERS ID: 398755, which can be found at the VAERS database here.


While the government has become obligated to report vaccine injuries in rarely referenced VAERS reports, something called the “People’s VAERS Report” exists as well.



You’d be surprised how many people are accidentally injected with vaccines meant for different people.


Multiple people have been mistakenly injected with the HPV vaccine, notably infants or very young people who become severely injured shortly after.


One prime example was Chace Topperwein of New Zealand. The infant received an accidental injection of the HPV vaccine, and sadly lost his life from leukemia after his health declined. Hayley Willar is another person who received the HPV vaccine and got the same type of cancer, leukemia.


So now that you know about vaccine injury, this university wants to take money from the people who make these vaccines, to experiment on mothers with them. Doesn’t sound like a nice plan.


This issue is really important right now, because governments are trying to make vaccination mandatory. A non-optional, involuntary, forceful injection of something that has been proven to injure and kill is nothing short of a threat of death.


It is irrelevant whether or not authorities recognize that the HPV vaccine can kill: it can kill and can injure, and it is therefore a threat of death to force people to receive it.




This article may be freely republished with attribution to the author, and a working link back to this article at Edge Canopy.


The post Merck Will Give Young Mothers The Most Dangerous Vaccine Of All, Trial (VIDEO) appeared first on The Sleuth Journal.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Lead Developer of HPV Vaccines Comes Clean, Warns Parents and Young Girls It’s All A Giant Deadly Scam

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(Organic and Healthy) Based on their study, Rail and study co-author Abby Lippman, a McGill University professor emeritus, published an op-ed article in Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper questioning the safety and benefits of human papillomavirus vaccines. Their op-ed urged Quebec to halt HPV immunization until its dangers are independently investigated. Of course they were roundly attacked through the Canadian mainstream media.

The mainstream media piled on with remarks from the usual “prestigious” medical professionals who asserted HPV vaccinations safety and remarkable success at reducing ovarian cancer. Fortunately, several comments on Canada’s National Post article favored the Rail-Lippman viewpoint despite the article’s slyly negative slant toward their findings.


Oh, of course statistics provided by pro-vaccine agencies and Big Pharma were included in the National Post article that “prove” HPV vaccine’s efficacy and safety.


Somehow these “prestigious” medical officials have ignored the adverse reaction cases reported internationally among teenage girls, ranging from chronic fatigue to chronic seizures to partial and complete paralysis. The HPV vaccines, Gardasil by Merck and Cervarix by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have been pushed onto families with teenage girls and now teenage boys as cancer preventatives.


The Rail-Lippman four-year study involved 170 parents of teenage girls who were given the HPV shots, which usually are administered sequentially in a series of three. Rail has been the main recipient of pro-vaccine hysteria criticism, and she’s not budging from what she knows to be true.


“I’m sort of raising a red flag, out of respect for what I’ve found in my own study, and for the despair of parents who had totally perfect 12-year-olds who are now in their beds, too tired to go to school,” Rail said. “Yes, we’re going against the grain, and we are going against those who are believed, i.e. doctors and nurses and people in public health.”


Every Mother of a Vaccine Injured Child Was Once Pro-Vaccine


If you’re old enough to remember Mr. T, a favorite statement of his was “pity the poor fool(s)”. That’s my thought for the average vaccine indoctrinated sheeple. But my thoughts get nastier with the manic frothing-at-the-mouth vaccine fanatics, and downright vicious with the vaccine industry and its celebrated spokesman Dr. Paul Offit.


Offit has maintained that a newborn can receive 1,000 vaccinations safely in a day and aluminum is vital to our health. Offit is a mainstream media darling. Ignore Offit. He’s off it and has made millions with his vaccine patent. And ignore the presstitutes who feed off him.


In case you’re wondering, breast milk feeding supports a newborn while its immune system is developing over the next two or so years. And unbound or free aluminum, the stuff used in almost all vaccines, is a neurological toxin.


A couple of years ago, one of the lead HPV vaccine developers for Merck’s Gardasil, Dr. Diane Harper, came clean and warned that Gardasil was not only ineffective and unnecessary, it was dangerous. Harper mentioned the medically known fact that 98 percent of HPV warts among sexually active women heal on their own within a year or two.


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Besides, Pap smears are still the recommended watch tower for cervical cancer, even if HPV shots are administered. After coming clean she reportedly sort of recanted. Maybe her pension was threatened, or her family. Who knows? You can see more of what she had originally said here.


Keep in mind it’s estimated that only around 5 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Service (VAERS) when you look over this graphic display from the Daily Sheeple.




Paul Fassa is a contributing staff writer for REALfarmacy.com. His pet peeves are the Medical Mafia’s control over health and the food industry and government regulatory agencies’ corruption. Paul’s contributions to the health movement and global paradigm shift are well received by truth seekers. Visit his blog by following this linkand follow him on Twitter here


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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Former President of Merck Led Secret Biowarfare Program, Influencing Experiments on Americans

Merck & Co. is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing corporation, and is one of the largest pharma companies in the world. They created such things as the MMR vaccine, and the HPV vaccine Gardasil.


As a corporation that has affected the lives of almost everyone around us in the Western world, with most people receiving their vaccinations that are known to do damage, we should know their history.



In this article, we will examine Merck’s connection to biological warfare, and the implications of that connection. Merck & Co. is not to be confused with the German “Merck KGaA,” but they both originate from the original German Merck. Merck was founded in 1668, in Germany. By 1887, a US division of Merck called Merck & Co. was set up in New York by George Merck. George Merck moved to NY in 1891.


In April 1917, as the US entered the Great War (WWI), the government announced the seizure of corporations affiliated with Germany.


Merck & Co. was seized, but George Merck and partners founded a “McKenna Corporation” to bid on Merck as it was put up for auction, and they managed to buy Merck back in 1919, fully separating from the other Merck in Germany (as far as we know).


From that point, Merck made efforts to stay boldly on the side of the American war effort, and perhaps that influenced their involvement with the US’ biological warfare program during the peak of World War II.


In 1925, the same year Nazi chemical monopoly IG Farben was created, George Merck passed his company onto his son, George W. Merck.


George W. Merck grew up in a privileged position, using the workshop of Thomas Edison as a child and inheriting his position as the president of the company.


He would become Merck’s president for 25 years, all throughout World War II: and he was given a central leadership position in the US’ biological warfare program during the same years he led Merck, retiring from the company years after his alleged retirement from biowarfare.


It was George W. Merck who led biological warfare work as the head of the War Research Service, the department in charge of Ft. Detrick, while still being president of Merck. According to Wikipedia:



“During World War II, he led the War Research Service, which initiated the U.S. biological weapons program with Frank Olson.”



According to MIT Press:



“By midsummer, three candidates had rejected an offer to head the new group: economist Walter W. Stewart, who chaired the Rockefeller Foundation, geographer Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University, and economist Edmund Ezra Day, president of Cornell University. Finally, in August, chemist George W. Merck, president of the pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co., accepted the position.


The innocuously named War Research Service (WRS) started out in mid-1942 with an initial allocation of $200,000. Wide contacts with major biologists and physicians enabled the eight member directorate to initiate secret work in about 28 American universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, and the University of California.”



To read George W. Merck’s report to the Secretary of War in 1945, click here.


This history perfectly illustrates what “the system” is, and how it extends into all the major universities.



He was later given several awards, and was put on the cover of the August 18, 1952 edition of Time Magazine, while the public was unaware he was ever involved with biological warfare, let alone his setting the foundation for experiments on Americans.


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Former President of Merck Led Secret Biowarfare Program, Influencing Experiments on Americans

Merck & Co. is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing corporation, and is one of the largest pharma companies in the world. They created such things as the MMR vaccine, and the HPV vaccine Gardasil.


As a corporation that has affected the lives of almost everyone around us in the Western world, with most people receiving their vaccinations that are known to do damage, we should know their history.



In this article, we will examine Merck’s connection to biological warfare, and the implications of that connection. Merck & Co. is not to be confused with the German “Merck KGaA,” but they both originate from the original German Merck. Merck was founded in 1668, in Germany. By 1887, a US division of Merck called Merck & Co. was set up in New York by George Merck. George Merck moved to NY in 1891.


In April 1917, as the US entered the Great War (WWI), the government announced the seizure of corporations affiliated with Germany.


Merck & Co. was seized, but George Merck and partners founded a “McKenna Corporation” to bid on Merck as it was put up for auction, and they managed to buy Merck back in 1919, fully separating from the other Merck in Germany (as far as we know).


From that point, Merck made efforts to stay boldly on the side of the American war effort, and perhaps that influenced their involvement with the US’ biological warfare program during the peak of World War II.


In 1925, the same year Nazi chemical monopoly IG Farben was created, George Merck passed his company onto his son, George W. Merck.


George W. Merck grew up in a privileged position, using the workshop of Thomas Edison as a child and inheriting his position as the president of the company.


He would become Merck’s president for 25 years, all throughout World War II: and he was given a central leadership position in the US’ biological warfare program during the same years he led Merck, retiring from the company years after his alleged retirement from biowarfare.


It was George W. Merck who led biological warfare work as the head of the War Research Service, the department in charge of Ft. Detrick, while still being president of Merck. According to Wikipedia:



“During World War II, he led the War Research Service, which initiated the U.S. biological weapons program with Frank Olson.”



According to MIT Press:



“By midsummer, three candidates had rejected an offer to head the new group: economist Walter W. Stewart, who chaired the Rockefeller Foundation, geographer Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University, and economist Edmund Ezra Day, president of Cornell University. Finally, in August, chemist George W. Merck, president of the pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co., accepted the position.


The innocuously named War Research Service (WRS) started out in mid-1942 with an initial allocation of $200,000. Wide contacts with major biologists and physicians enabled the eight member directorate to initiate secret work in about 28 American universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, and the University of California.”



To read George W. Merck’s report to the Secretary of War in 1945, click here.


This history perfectly illustrates what “the system” is, and how it extends into all the major universities.



He was later given several awards, and was put on the cover of the August 18, 1952 edition of Time Magazine, while the public was unaware he was ever involved with biological warfare, let alone his setting the foundation for experiments on Americans.


Read the Whole Article

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Thousands Sue Merck for Shingles Vaccine “Causing What It’s Supposed to Prevent”

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Attorney Troy Bouk was recently interviewed by Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins to discuss the shingles vaccine Zostavax, the issues related to its effectiveness and the problems that are associated with the product, including the fact that the drugmaker’s vaccine seems to cause the very affliction that it seeks to prevent — and, according to a massive lawsuit, thousands of victims agree.


While we have everyone from attorneys to biologists, to political scientists who contribute to the Free Thought Project, none of us are doctors, so we do not make recommendations about what you and your family should do in regards to vaccination. That being said, the drug makers have an incentive for you not to see this information which means it will not be reported on in the mainstream media as their advertising dollars are tied directly to these companies. So, we find that it is our duty to spread this information and with your help sharing it, we can have a massive effect.



In the interview with Cousins, Bouk explained that Zostavax is made with a live strain of the shingles virus and described the complications that are associated with shingles. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is the same virus that causes chicken pox. The varicella-zoster virus lies dormant in people who have had chicken pox, but sometimes the virus reawakens and produces shingles.


The virus often manifests as a painful rash, and can also lead to encephalitis, vision loss and postherpetic neuralgia. Bouk said that the virus sometimes “tends to get into your central nervous system, and then, once in there, it wreaks some havoc by usually causing swelling which ends up with these other medical problems. That’s the situation with the vaccine itself, is that Merck hasn’t warned anyone about those indications.”



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Cousins asked Bouk about the effectiveness of Zostavax, to which Bouk replied:



“The FDA has approved the vaccine for people 50 years of age and older, whereas the CDC only recommends that those individuals 60 years of age and older get it. The reason is that once you have had the Zostavax shot, the FDA says it only lasts for about four years. It’s not proven to last any longer than that. Let’s say you’re 55 years old. It may stay in your system till you’re 60, but you actually are at the greatest risk of getting shingles when you’re in your 60s. That’s why the CDC recommends that you really don’t get it until you’re in your 60s, because that’s probably when you’re going to need it the most.”


Book’s claim regarding the CDC’s recommendation is indeed correct. According to the CDC’s website, the agency specifically advises Zostavax to be given to people aged 60 and older and does not provide a recommendation for people between the ages of 50 and 59. The CDC warns that people in the 50-59 age group who receive the Zostavax shot may lose the vaccine’s protection benefits by the time they reach age 60, stating that “adults vaccinated before age 60 years might not be protected later in life when the risk for shingles and its complications are greatest.”


Despite the CDC’s caution against administering Zostavax to people under 60, the FDA approves the vaccine for people age 50 and older, and Merck uses the FDA’s approval to market the vaccine to that age group. Zostamax sales reached $749 million in 2015.



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The true efficacy of Zostavax is unclear. The CDC states that the drug “reduced the risk of shingles by 51%” based on a study of 38,000 people age 60 and up. Reuters reported that Zostavax’s effectiveness “varies between 18 and 70 percent, and it declines noticeably in older people.”


A second shingles vaccine from drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, Shingrix, may be available if the FDA approves their filing. Shingrix, a two-dose vaccine, distinguishes itself from Zostavax because it’s derived from a protein of the virus rather than a live strain. The efficacy of Shingrix is more impressive, as Reuters noted that “in clinical trials, GSK’s vaccine remained 90 percent effective in people over age 70, even four years after injections.”


Merck has explicitly stated that those who receive the Zostavax vaccine “may still get shingles.” However, Bouk argued that some people may be contracting shingles as a side effect of the vaccine itself due to the live virus strain in the vaccine, not because people are experiencing shingles despite the vaccine.


Bouk went on to say that “there is a study out there that shows that in 50% of the patients that actually get the vaccine, that sometimes they don’t get shingles — the virus goes straight to manifesting in the central nervous system. It’s possible that you could get the vaccine and get meningitis or encephalitis without ever actually exhibiting shingles.” Bouk advises that patients weigh the risks of Zostavax before receiving the vaccine.


While GSK seeks approval of Shingrix, which could lead to their product edging out Zostavax, a large number of claims have been filed against Merck. The Mark J. Bern Partners law firm “is currently representing nearly 5000 claimants and has thousands more filings to follow.”



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Marc J. Bern said that his firm has been “investigating this drug for quite some time. We steadfastly believe in the merits of this litigation. This vaccination is at best 50 percent effective. Either it is not effective or it causes shingles or a host of other side effects.” Bern added that “what is most troubling is that Merck had a better alternative on hand when this product was released.”