Posted on 09/28/2009 3:26:39 PM PDT by BGHater
A 14-year-old schoolgirl died hours after being given the controversial cervical cancer vaccine today.
The teenager from Blue Coat Church of England School, in Coventry, died in hospital after receiving the Cervarix jab.
The tragedy marks the first reported death since more than 1.5m doses of the injection were given to young girls as part of a national vaccination programme since last September in the UK.
A number of her classmates have reported side effects to the vaccine.
Critics say the case highlights the risks of mass vaccination, because no testing regime can ever pick up the rarest and potentially most lethal side effects.
Tonight there were calls for the entire cervical cancer vaccination programme to be suspended, but officials from the Department of Health would not say whether it will be halted for tens of thousands of girls due to be given the vaccine in the coming months.
But vaccine experts called for the mass programme to continue, saying it will help save 700 deaths from cervical cancer every year.
The girl died after having the jab administered. It is not yet known definitively whether the jab caused the death and a post mortem will take place.
But the batch of the vaccine used at the school has been quarantined to test whether it is faulty or contaminated during production or distribution.
Some other girls at the school have suffered from dizziness and nausea but it is understood that none have been sent to hospital.
The Cervarix vaccine is currently being given to all girls aged 12 and 13 in a nationwide programme. A catch-up programme will mean that everyone under the age of 18 will be given it by 2011.
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Correct Title:
'Schoolgirl, 14, dies and three classmates taken ill after being given new cervical cancer vaccine'
Why would a 14 year old girl need cervical cancer vaccine ? Same reason she’s being given contraception.
Hey, what’s a few dead teenage girls, that’s just the price you pay for stopping cervical cancer right?/SAR
Thanks, I need a vaccine, my search powers are limited today.
Didn’t or doesn’t Texas mandate that vaccine?
Governor Perry tried to mandate it by executive order but the legislature overruled him.
Not one of Perry's finest moments.
Was wondering if that was still in force. I for one would refuse it - where’s the male equivalent? The idea that any vaccine would be mandatory under penalty of law - and aren’t vaccine’s non-effective against virus’? Like the vaccine you take is for last years whatever that mutated into something else???
She doesn’t - but Britain has a single-payer health system, meaning the gov’t bought a ton of this junk from Merck and now it is mandating the use of it. Merck probably had a hand in getting the mandate passed, too, because they tried it here, in several states, and only got Perry to bite.
So far, AFAIK, vaccines are only effective against diseases caused by virus, and antibiotics are only effective against diseases caused by bacteria.
So far they aren't giving these vaccines to men, but perhaps they should, since (1) men are generally the ones who transmit the herpes virus which causes cervical cancer to women, and if the man is not a virgin when he marries, the woman is at risk for the virus even if she is perfectly chaste, and (2) recent data connects certain types of throat cancers to this same virus, and throat cancer affects men and women.
I still think it wrong to demand for us to take this vaccine by law - but this girl died in England under their NHC. Now if the plague that wiped out half of Europe were to come back and now that we have a shot for it I think it’d become mandatory to take it ...
This is not about stopping cervical cancer. This is about promoting sex in schools -- just like passing out condoms.
{For FR readers in Rio Linda/Port St Lucie, cervical cancer in women is typically caused by HPV, a sexually transmitted virus}
That national health care isn’t it hillarious! What if this was your 14 year old daughter and this happened in America because we all failed to take fight back!
It's so unfair to judge by results.
Gov. Perry tried to make this vaccine mandatory in the State of Texas! The people and the medical profession beat him back. His enemies say he had a deal with the vaccine maker. It was very ham handed and caused a lot of uproar.
I did not save the article,
Perhaps someone else has it.
It’s not a mandatory vaccine where I live.
There’s also no proof that she died because of the vaccine, but perhaps she did.
The FDA approved the vaccine for males earlier this month.
I tried to find the story at “The Sun” an English paper but nothing ... one article said she got the vaccine and about four hours later she died and three other students went to the hospital because of it ....
ps this happend in England ...
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