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UK Teen Dies After HPV Vaccination

14-year-old has 'rare but extreme reaction'; batch quarantined after others report trouble

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(Newser) – A 14-year-old British girl died yesterday after receiving the vaccine against human papillomavirus, and the National Health Service has quarantined the batch after three other girls reported unpleasant side effects. Her school is telling parents the girl had a “rare but extreme reaction” to the shot, which is commonly administered to teen girls in the US, UK and elsewhere and is intended to protect against cervical cancer.

A Georgia teen receives the HPV vaccine.
A Georgia teen receives the HPV vaccine.   (AP Photo)
A vaccination.
A vaccination.   (AP Photo)
A vaccination.
A vaccination.   (AP Photo)
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kyleleitch
Sep 28, 09 8:57 PM CDT
Bracing myself for all the comments bashing the NHS and how it's bad for people's health. Reply
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dontlikeyou
Sep 28, 09 11:47 PM CDT
No, it's completely safe. Take it yourself. It's for men and women now. You do like to gamble, don't you?
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dontlikeyou
Sep 28, 09 11:51 PM CDT
Vaccines have unkown results. For example, about 10 years ago, they began vaccinating for Chicken Pox. They said it was safe. Now, young people (18-30) are getting the Shingles. Shingles used to very rarely happen to anyone below 60. No one saw this coming. Take a vaccine, believe it is safe if you will, but you will not know what will happen to you in the future. It's not possible because they don't do 40-50 year long term studies. They test them for a year or two (in the case of Swine Flu--- 6 weeks) and call it safe.
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kyleleitch
Sep 28, 09 11:57 PM CDT
I agree, the long-term effects of vaccines are largely unknown and testing to begin with is terribly skewed (often times, women are excluded or barely included in a sample), but the point I was trying to make was that there are people who may use the fact that this article focuses on a girl who died under the NHS's care, if you will.
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Deebles
Sep 29, 09 12:26 AM CDT
Please NSH? Like our saviors. All they want from us is to learn the difference between a virus and a bacteria, Terrible thing that happened to her but the one out of a million. HPV is viral genital warts--on a man, he can see them but women rarely see their cervix. Some people always suffer from a vaccine but the good to the population has to override that. I know this is hard to understand, but since most men carry the HPV virus she would have died anyway. It's a live vaccine.
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