Reply #16: Here's a link to an interview with Jenny's mother, which contains some info about Merck

[pnwmom]

that is quite damning.

Even though Merck is protected by law from lawsuits related to adverse effects, they have been stonewalling attempts from Jenny's family and others to get information about possible injuries, on the grounds that the information is "proprietary." I think that if we're going to indemnify Merck against lawsuits, it should be conditioned on Merck being completely open and transparent with the data.

http://www.momlogic.com/2009/07/did_gardasil_kill_jenny_tetloc.php

Now we have found at least one comparable case that we have been told was filed by Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil. But the information is too vague and incomplete for the CDC to contact the family. To the best of our knowledge, Merck has yet to provide the necessary information. I want to take this opportunity to beg Merck to help our doctors and the government agencies to identify any other cases that might be comparable. I know that Jenny would want us to do everything humanly possible to make sure no other girl ever suffers the pain, humiliation, and misery that she went through in the last two years of her life.

ML: Did anyone from Merck or affiliated with Merck contact you or try to reach you?

Barbara: No. As far as we know, Merck has not responded to requests for information, either from us or from Jenny's doctors. There are two types of information that experts investigating these cases need. First, Merck needs to share widely all information about any other girls with comparable symptoms. Second, Merck needs to answer -- in a transparent and scientific way -- the serious questions that have been raised about batches of vaccines that might be linked to manufacturing problems. There have been reports of bad batches. We have obtained the lot numbers from Jenny's vaccinations and asked how the lot numbers relate to the batches. We have been told that key information that experts need to test hypotheses about bad lots -- key information like how many kids received vaccines from each lot -- is considered proprietary.

ML: Is there a way legally to get them to disclose the information about the lot numbers or bad batches of the vaccine?

Barbara: I don't know, but I hope so. From a humanitarian point of view, Merck should have been much more forthcoming with information that could help the scientists working on this problem. But I see no evidence of it happening. It is a sad state of affairs if our government can't get this important information. It is also ironic, since pharmaceutical companies are protected from lawsuits involving adverse events related to the vaccines.

Read more: http://www.momlogic.com/2009/07/did_gardasil_kill_jenny_tetloc.php#ixzz0UFldPCOr