HPV vaccine death

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HPV vaccine death

Postby hedge on Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:55 am

A young girl dead after getting the new HPV jab. Despite that it's been administered to a million girls so far, and that it's likely that in a cohort this large, one could very well die coincidentally, the papers are already starting to mutter...
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Re: HPV vaccine death

Postby Editor on Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:08 am

This morning the news is reporting that the girl had "underlying health conditions" so there is no move to recall the vaccine It's a tragic death, but hopefully it won't affect uptake.
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Re: HPV vaccine death

Postby Dr Mike on Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:13 am

Turns out she had a nasty malignant tumour, previously undetected. I have been pretty surprised, in a pleased way, that this case doesn't seem to have led to the media frenzy I would have expected. It looks to me as if it will be business as usual for the HPV jab.

Bill had an excellent blog about this by the way:
http://blogs.lablit.com/2009/09/oh-dear/
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Re: HPV vaccine death

Postby tideliar on Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:57 pm

So what was the interaction between the "nasty, malignant tumour" & the vaccine?

if she hadn't of got the jab that day, was she scheduled to die from tumour-death anyway?
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Re: HPV vaccine death

Postby The Prof on Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:01 pm

There is presumably no relationship whatsoever. Just one of life's many coincidences.

'Scheduled' by whom, God? Possibly. It was my understanding she didn't know she was ill but it was ready to kill her right there and then.
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