A North Carolina district court has ordered Merck to turn over all of its Gardasil adverse events databases to plaintiffs suing the big pharma giant for injuries they claim were caused by the human papillomavirus vaccine.
The databases, which include information from the Merck Adverse Event Reporting and Review System, should contain all of the reports pertaining to Gardasil adverse events submitted by physicians, patients and publications, plaintiffs' attorney Michael Baum told the Defender.
The Defender reports: In his March 20 order, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., said, "Plaintiffs' and their experts should have the same opportunity as Merck to review and analyze the entirety of the data."
Merck until now has refused to make the entire MARRS databases available to the plaintiffs' attorneys.
The firm Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Children's Health Defense chairman-on-leave, have filed more than two dozen lawsuits on behalf of young people injured by Gardasil, alleging Merck knowingly and fraudulently concealed the vaccine's risks.
Merck maintains there is no safety signal in the data for autoimmune conditions.
The plaintiffs allege Merck made this argument by discounting reports.
https://newspunch.com/us-court-orders-merck-to-turn-over-gardasil-adverse-event-databases/
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