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Katie Couric Upsets Liberal Media By Questioning Cervical Cancer Vaccine Given to Young Girls

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Katie Couric put herself on the wrong side of liberals Wednesday with a show questioning the safety of the Gardasil vaccine to prevent the Human Papilloma Virus that causes cervical cancer.

Liberals have pushed parents of junior-high girls to get the vaccine with the assumption that they’ll be sexually active at 12. The Los Angeles Times reported former Newsweek media reporter Seth Mnookin was the first journalist to get upset:
The outcry began Tuesday with a blog post from science writer Seth Mnookin, who had spoken extensively with a "Katie" producer who assured him the segment would not be alarmist. Mnookin was therefore troubled by the sensationalistic teaser for the episode: "The HPV vaccine is considered a life-saving cancer preventer … but is it a potentially deadly dose for girls?"

Michael Specter of The New Yorker, a former reporter for both The New York Times and The Washington Post, tweeted “The shameful @katiecouric HPV vaccine show was a model of dangerously misinformed reporting. Katie, your credibility is gone.” Time magazine went for the jugular: “Is Katie Couric the new Jenny McCarthy?” McCarthy has argued autism is caused by vaccines.

The journalists were upset at the tilt and panic of the segment. Have you ever noticed these "science" defenders don't get upset when we're warned the planet is facing a "deadly dose" of human activity causing catastrophic global warming?

Couric and her staff weren’t apologizing in an update on the show’s website:
While many appreciated us raising the topic, others were critical of us for providing what they felt was a disproportionate amount of time to two families who faced the rare circumstances of seeing their children’s health deteriorate after receiving Gardasil. The health problems may or may not be linked to the vaccine.

For those of you who watched the show, you know we presented the facts supporting the potential of the vaccine and that Katie’s own daughters received the vaccine. This is an important personal decision to be made in consultation with your doctor and other family advisors...

We do not want to leave our viewers with an irrational fear of the vaccine and for that reason we’re going to continue the conversation and invite a number of medical experts, journalists and scientists to weigh in here, on our site. We’ll keep you posted!

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The health problems may or may not be linked to the vaccine.

Well duhhhh what other reason would you take that vaccine. So the health problems would have to be linked to that vaccine. It is like playing Russian roulette.

Vaccine disinformation: Katie Couric on HPV and Jenny McCarthy on autism

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Thursday, December 5, 2013 - Steps to Authentic Happiness via Positive Psychology by Paul R. Mountjoy

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WASHINGTON, December 5, 2013 — Yesterday, Katie Couric aired a show titled the “Big Conversation” which devoted almost 30 minutes to the possibility that human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccinations may be causing deaths to recipients of the vaccine.

To illustrate the so-called “controversy,” Couric interviewed Rosemary Mathis, director of the anti-HPV organization SaneVax, Inc. and Emily Tarsell, both mothers who claim the HPV vaccine took their daughters lives.

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To bolster Couric’s journalistic angle, Couric also trotted out Dr. Diane Harper, known as a lead researcher in the development of Gardasil and Cervarix, the two drugs approved as HPV vaccines. Harper, who once supported the use of HPV vaccines, has now done a 180 and has publically taken on an anti-vaccine position.

In the 4th International Conference on Vaccination in Reston, Va. this year, Harper was a keynote speaker to support the use of HPV vaccination but stunned the audience by declaring she is changing her mind so she “could sleep at night”.

She claims “the risk of cervical cancer is already extremely low and that vaccinations are unlikely to have any effect upon the rates of cervical cancer in the USA” according to Bret Lambert in Disclosure. Harper claimed 70 percent of HPV self-resolves within a year without treatment and the figure rises to 90 percent after two years.

Harper reported “that eight of ten women will have HPV at some point in their lives” and not become symptomatic. In the long run, “98 percent of cases will self- clear,” and the vaccine is only good for five years.

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Why Couric took this non-controversial topic and is trying to make it controversial is akin to actress and former Playboy bunny Jenny McCarthy speaking out about vaccines causing high upticks in autism. It also matches University of Michigan finding that 24 percent of parents assign “some trust” to celebrity provided information.

Couric and McCarthy may be providing a public disservice.

Dr. Harpers statements and of HPV seem misleading and incomplete.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported there are more than 30 types of HPV transmitted through sexual contact and affect the anogenital areas. Some HPV cause genital warts that may become cancerous and are considered “high risk” and HPV infection is responsible for nearly all cases of cervical cancer.

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What Harper has not said is just because an individual does contract HPV and overcomes it, this does not translate to develop an immunity, and the same person may easily be re-infected. Self-cured people who are infected with HHPV yet remain sexual active may be carriers and may also be introduced to another type of HPV to which they are not resistant.

Medscape reports in 2008, there were about one half million new cases of HPV and a reported 270,000 deaths worldwide.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) claims the vaccines for HPV were among the most well studied and researched medicines in recent years and the result is over 59 million doses of vaccine distributed from June of 2006 to March 2013.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) proffers out of the 59 million doses administered, only 22,000 girls and women reported as having “adverse events” which means an undesired side effect such as nausea, dizziness, fainting, headache, fever, hives and localized injection site pain.

VAERS claims 85 deaths have been reported after receiving the vaccine but there is no evidence tying the vaccine with the deaths and there is no diagnosis that the vaccines contributed to the deaths.

Jenny McCarthy has long been soapbox style promoting her opinion that vaccines contribute to the rise in autism despite that facts that the CDC, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and many other well respected medical reporting agencies have debunked such fears and cannot find a relationship between vaccination and autism.

Perhaps taking advice from of celebrities, who search for controversy stirring angles, may be detrimental to one’s health. Getting the facts from qualified medical experts is the best approach for making health related decisions.

Paul Mountjoy is a Virginia based writer and psychotherapist

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