[Ditto]

She was on the pill at SIXTEEN????

Looks like 18 to me. She is 24 now, and has been in the coma for 6 years.

Christiane Kittel, now 24, was left in a vegetative state after her collapse on 12 June 1997.

BTW. Some young women are proscribed contraceptives to help control their cycle to prevent excess bleeding and debilitating cramps.

Here's the part that got me however.

Doctors believe her condition was caused by a combination of hot weather, a hereditary haemophilia condition and side-effects of the contraceptive pill.

I was under the impression that haemophilla only effected men while women only carried the gene.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I was under the impression that haemophilla only effected men while women only carried the gene.

Good eye. That's what I've also heard.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I went to school with a girl that was a haemophilliac. She wasn't allowed to participate in much of gym class.