Gardasil Allegedly Subjected Recipients to Autoimmune Disorders

A lawyer with an extensive history of representing clients in wrongful death and personal injury cases, Michael Lin Baum has spent nearly four decades as managing partner of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman in Los Angeles, California, where he oversees all aspects of the firm, including mass tort litigation. As an attorney, Michael Lin Baum’s current legal case involves injuries caused by Merck’s Gardasil HPV vaccination.
The HPV vaccine includes a genetically modified strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) as an expedient. While S. cerevisiae has proven efficacy in strengthening the immune system and wound healing, past studies have also raised awareness of detrimental adverse effects (autoimmune disorders) that yeast could trigger if the immune system cannot cope with that dosage.
Autoimmune disorders occur when the immune system destroys healthy body tissues. Typically, the immune system recognizes yeast as a foreign invader and creates antibodies to fight yeast antigens (proteins). Although this mechanism is the same way the immune system fights infection, yeast may be present in the body in residual amounts and will not be considered an infection since it urges the immune system to create more antibodies and become stronger. In adverse cases, however, there might be a production of an abnormally high concentration of antibodies, causing the immune system to begin attacking healthy cells instead. These unusually high levels of S. cerevisiae antibodies have been found in patients with autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and certain types of diabetes.
As a result, there’s a high chance that Gardasil is responsible for most autoimmune injuries that are rampant among patients who are recipients of the HPV vaccine– advertised as protection against the human papillomavirus. Consequently, Gardasil’s manufacturer, Merck, is facing multiple related lawsuits.

Gardasil Manufacturer Blamed for a Harmful Adjuvant in its Product

As managing partner and practicing attorney in the Los Angeles firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, Michael Lin Baum focuses on lawsuits involving wrongful death and personal injury arising from major pharmaceutical drugs and dangerous consumer products. As a lawyer with over 35 years of legal expertise, Michael Lin Baum now represents those affected by the Gardasil HPV vaccination.

The HPV vaccine, Gardasil, is the subject of multiple personal injury lawsuits due to the various illnesses that recipients developed after receiving the vaccine. According to the US Food and Drug Administration, Gardasil contains sodium borate. Merck allegedly intended to boost the effectiveness of the vaccine’s active agent with sodium borate, but existing research had shown that sodium borate is dangerous to humans when ingested, inhaled, or even touched.

When ingested, sodium borate triggers biochemical and physiological reactions that result in nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Multiple research studies have also connected ingestion of sodium borate with male reproductive organ damage. Sodium borate can also adversely affect the growth of the fetus.

When inhaled, sodium borate can irritate the nose, throat, and lungs. Eye or skin contact can cause inflammation of the eyes or skin. The substance has been banned from US food products because of the associative dangers. Using sodium borate as an adjuvant (a substance that boosts vaccine effect) without a preliminary comprehensive clinical trial makes Gardasil’s manufacturer (Merck) potentially liable to personal injury charges based on the illnesses that sodium borate may cause.