A sore throat could be bacterial, and bacterial infections can kill quite quickly. A staph infection, followed by toxic shock, maybe.
It would be interesting to find out the cause of death, but I doubt it will be publicized. Anti-vaxxers love to try to scare people about vaccines--a story like this that they can use to insinuate that the girl somehow died of the vaccine is made-to-order for them.
There is not a nurse out there who would vaccinate a septic child/teen.
A friend of mine nearly died last year from Epiglottitis. He had a sore throat one afternoon while at work and thought he was coming down with a cold. Woke up in the middle of the night with his airway nearly completely cut off due to swelling.
The ER docs pumped him full of steroids and antibiotics, while standing next to his bed ready to intubate him...fortunately the drugs worked quickly.
We have also had a few cases of bacterial meningitis around here that have killed in an alarmingly fast manner. A couple of years ago, a college student attended his classes through the afternoon (seeming normal to his classmates)...and died in the emergency room that evening.
It is shocking how fast something deadly can “come on.”
Why anyone would avoid a vaccine that protects against CANCER is beyond me. It’s an answer to a prayer; I keep hoping that they will find similar causes/vaccines for other types of cancers so that we can reduce the incidence of that awful disease.