The contract to supply a cervical cancer vaccine which has been awarded to Sanofi Pasteur, the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, confirmed at yesterday’s meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health.
The vaccine, Gardasil, will be given to first-year students in second-level schools this year.
Gardasil protects against the HPV virus and also against genital warts. The announcement follows a two-week “cooling off” period after the contract was awarded.
Gardasil is the only cervical cancer vaccine that helps protect against four types of human papillomavirus (HPV): two types that cause 70 per cent of cervical cancer cases, and two more types that cause 90 per cent of genital warts cases.
Gardasil is aimed at girls and young women aged nine to 26.
Gardasil may not fully protect everyone, and does not prevent all types of cervical cancer, so it’s important to continue routine cervical cancer screenings, according to Gardasil.com. It is given as three injections over six months.
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I’m jealous! I’m a consultant in sexual health in the UK. The UK DoH took a shortsighted financial view and chose Cervarix – which does not also prtoect against genital warts. In countries like Australia where Gardasil has been the vaccine of choice they have already seen a 48% reduction in new cases of genital warts in young women. They will have eradicated genital warts and mild dyskaryosis from HPV 6 and 11 within a few years. As the UK is one of the few countries to have chosen the ‘wrong’ vaccine Australian doctors were saying that the biggest threat to them is now British backpackers continuing to bring in HPV 6 and 11! At least now, Irish backpackers will be welcome? Ireland can now look forward to wart free STD clinics in due course. Any chance of a job back home…….?
Ireland – beware- There are now more than 19,000 adverse reactions and 60 deaths reported to VAERS (between 1 to 10% reporting. According to Diane Harper, the lead researcher on this vaccine for Merck and who backed away from the project “there are now more adverse reactions than there are cases of cervical cancer. Parents across the world are coming together, sharing stories, documents and research on the adverse reactions to share with their respective governments. Please educate yourself about this vaccine before your daughter becomes “one less” healthy teenager.
I would like to agree with
everything that Leslie said.
Mairéad
Irish Vaccine Informed Parents