"JOHN" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.whale.to/vaccine/my_girl_died.html
>
> MY GIRL DIED AS 'GUINEA PIG' FOR GARDASIL
>
> By SUSAN EDELMAN
>
>
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07202008/news/regionalnews/my_girl_died_as_guinea_pig_for_gardasil_120737.htm
>
> Posted: 4:26 am
> July 20, 2008
>
> She loved SpaghettiO's, pepperoni, lilies, listening to her iPod and
> making
> her pals laugh.
>
> In her senior yearbook, she wrote, "The best things in life aren't
things,
> they're friends."
>
> Now that's the quote chiseled into her gravestone.
>
> Jessica Ericzon, 17, was "an all-American teenager," as described by one
> of
> her upstate LaFargeville teachers.
>
> Last February, she was working on her softball pitches, getting ready
for
> a
> class trip to Universal Studios in Florida and hitting the slopes to
> snowboard with her older brother.
>
> Then one day, the blond, blue-eyed honors student collapsed dead in her
> bathroom.
>
> It started with a pain in the back of her head.
>
> On the advice of her family doctor, Jessie had taken a series of three
> Gardasil shots.
>
> The vaccine, marketed for females ages 9 to 26, is the first found to
ward
> off strains of the ***ually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV,
> which
> can cause cervical cancer.
>
> Jessie got the first injection in July 2007.
>
> After her second shot in September, she complained of a pain in the back
> of
> her head, fatigue and soreness in some joints, said her mom, Lisa.
>
> On Feb. 20, while on winter break from school, she got her third and
final
> dose of the vaccine.
>
> The next night, "she told me the spot on the back of her head was
> bothering
> her again," her mom said.
>
> The next morning, Feb. 22, Lisa, a hospital technician, left for work
just
> after 5 a.m., leaving Jessie asleep.
>
> Jessie never showed up for the class she was taking at Jefferson
Community
> College.
>
> When her mom got home at 3:20 p.m., she found Jessie sprawled on her
back
> on
> the bathroom floor, with blood spots on her head where it had hit a
> flowerpot.
>
> Jefferson County Medical Examiner Samuel Livingstone is stumped.
>
> "She was essentially dead by the time she hit the floor. Whatever it
was,
> it
> was instantaneous," Livingstone said. His autopsy found no cause.
>
> He speculates she suffered a cardiac arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat,
> extremely rare in young people.
>
> Jessie had been on birth-control pills for a year to treat acne, records
> show.
>
> Livingstone re****ted Jessie's death to the federal Vaccine Adverse
Events
> Re****ting System.
>
> Run by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it
has
> collected 8,000 re****ts of problems after Gardasil shots, including
> paralysis, seizures and miscarriages.
>
> Seventeen other deaths following the vaccine have been re****ted since
> Merck
> & Co. introduced it in 2006.
>
> Officials have confirmed 11 of the re****ted deaths so far, said CDC
> spokesman Curtis Allen.
>
> They have found "no pattern or connection" to Gardasil in eight deaths
and
> are still reviewing three, he said.
>
> Lisa Ericzon now feels her daughter was "a guinea pig" for Gardasil, and
> is
> urging parents to research the vaccine before letting their daughters
get
> it.
>
> "I want other mothers to know," said Lisa, the first parent of a girl
who
> died after Gardasil to speak publicly.
>
> "I don't want them to go through what I went through."
>
> Jessie planned to major in psychology at SUNY Plattsburgh and pursue her
> greatest ambition - to become a New York state trooper.
>
> Just six days before she died, she got to ride along with a trooper
canine
> unit. She was ecstatic.
>
> Her family started the Jessica Ericzon Memorial Fund to award
scholar****ps
> to her classmates.
>
>
>
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