Dear Sir or Madam,

1. Please provide me with the original source and date of the NHS
published statement about Cervarix side effects: "Other mild side
effects such as slightly raised temperature, sickness, diarrhoea
and muscle aches were reported in less than one in 1000 people."

Beating cervical cancer - the facts. Page 13.
http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/publicati...

2. Please inform me of any DH publications and provide
correspondence that contains the much higher figures about
undesirable effects, as published by the manufacturers
GlaxoSmithKline in the electronic Medicines Compendium at
http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/assets/c....

Examples of these are stated as: headache (very common), myalgia
(very common), injections site reactions (very common), fatigue
(very common), nausea (common), vomiting (common), abdominal pain
(common), pruritis (common), rash (common), urticaria (common),
arthralgia (common), fever over 38 degrees C (common).

3. Please provide me with the number of incidents of anaphylaxis
resulting from vaccinations in the UK during the last 5 years.

4. Please provide me with the number of deaths resulting from
vaccinations in the UK during the last 5 years.

Yours faithfully,

Grace Filby, Churchill Fellow, Reigate, Surrey.
www.relax-well.co.uk www.amazingphage.info

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Dear David,

Ref:DE00000354283

I am pleased to read that Department of Health officials are
grateful that I have pointed out the error.

It certainly was a serious error and clearly a blatant
understatement of the facts, therefore very misleading to thousands
of people who look to the Department to provide them with accurate
and up to date information.

I hope the officials are going to provide them with an apology.

I did ask for the original source and date of that statement so I
would be grateful if you could supply that extra piece of
information that I had stated first in my FOI request. A mention of
a drafted comment is rather too vague when it resulted in a
scientific claim.

I note the amendment although it doesn't give any figures now, and
also distracts the reader from the fact that Cervarix does contain
aluminium - which is not rigorously tested for long term safety and
is implicated in the development of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and
other chronic diseases that develop in later life.

Thank you for your help and I look forward to the extra bit of
information as originally requested.

Regards

Grace Filby http://www.relax-well.co.uk
http://www.amazingphage.info

Yours sincerely,

Grace Filby

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27 October 2008

DE358681

Dear Ms Filby,

Thank you for your further email of 15 October regarding the human
papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) factsheet.

As mentioned in the Department’s previous response (DE354283), the summary
of product characteristics (SPCs) for Cervarix and Gardasil were used to
inform the text of the factsheet.

The SPCs can be found at: [1]http://emc.medicines.org.uk/.

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