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The law firm of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Sept. 16, against pharmaceutical giant Merck on behalf of a young man, Zachariah Otto, who was allegedly injured by Gardasil, Mercks HPV vaccine. The complaint seeks damages, including punitive damages, for negligence; strict liability or failure to warn; strict liability or manufacturing defect; breach of warranty; common law fraud and violation of Californias unfair competition law.

Otto claimed in the lawsuit that multiple Gardasil injections, which he first received at the age of 16, caused him to develop life-altering injuries, including dysautonomia, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, orthostatic intolerance, small fiber neuropathy, chronic fatigue syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome, autoimmune disease and fibromyalgia, as well as a constellation of other serious health issues. POTS is an autoimmune condition that impacts the autonomic nervous system, which automatically regulates critical bodily functions, and the sympathetic nervous system, which is involved in the fight or flight response. POTS symptoms include fainting, migraine headaches and anxiety among many other serious conditions.

The plaintiff said the Gardasil-induced injuries have made him disabled to a point where he can no longer work and cannot physically attend college. His mother said it was Mercks intense Gardasil marketing campaign that encouraged her to have her son get the shots. Otto and his mother said that had they known of the serious risks associated with this vaccine, they would have never gone forward with the shots.

Merck fast-tracked Gardasil by presenting misleading data to the FDA and fabricating a health crisis, Ottos co-counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said. They claimed they were filling an unmet medical need but in reality, the only thing Merck was interested in filling was the $6 billion financial hole created by the Vioxx scandal.

Gardasil is racking up a long list of young women and men who were similarly harmed following vaccination with Mercks product. Childrens Health Defense has also been following the case of former athlete and scholar Jennifer Robi, who filed a lawsuit for Gardasil injuries against Merck in 2016. Robi is a 25-year-old woman who has been confined to a wheelchair since receiving her third Gardasil vaccine at age 16. Like Otto, she was diagnosed with POTS after receiving the series of Gardasil shots. Her attorneys alleged that Gardasils amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate adjuvant can over-stimulate the immune systems of vaccine recipients, tipping them into autoimmune conditions in which their redlining immune defenses begin attacking their bodies own organs. The autoimmune process allegedly caused a cascade of illnesses that, in Robis case, resulted in damage and deterioration in diverse organ systems throughout her body.

Colton Berrett, featured in the documentary film Vaxxed II, was another victim of Gardasil injury. Berrett was an active 13-year-old when he received the series of shots as advised by his physician before leaving for Boy Scouts camp in 2014. Two weeks after his third dose of Gardasil, Berrett experienced a sore neck followed by paralysis in his arms and hands. The paralysis continued to other parts of his body ultimately making Berrett completely paralyzed from the neck down and ventilator dependent through tracheostomy. Though he fought hard, he never recovered, and in January 2018, Berrett removed himself from the need of life support or the ventilator.

In this latest Gardasil lawsuit on behalf of Otto, Baum Hedlund accused Merck of knowingly and recklessly placing Gardasils profits ahead of patient safety. The team asked for punitive damages to deter Merck from withholding information on the serious adverse events associated with Gardasil while promoting it as safe and effective.

Most people think Gardasil is for girls, but since 2009, Merck has made billions in profit by marketing the HPV vaccine to the parents of boys and to young men, attorney Nicole K.H. Maldonado said. Through its advertising, Merck sold parents on the idea that Gardasil is a safe and effective tool to stop the spread of HPV and prevent cervical cancer. But Merck knew that Gardasil was neither safe nor effective at preventing cervical cancer, and worse, the company knew that Gardasil could cause a host of serious health issues.

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