No HPV vaccine link to girl’s death?
UPDATE: Sept 30 – The day after British teenager, Natalie Morton, died, preliminary post mortem results reveal that she had a serious underlying medical condition and that Cervirax was likely not to blame for her death.
A British teenage girl has tragically died after feeling unwell before being inoculated with Cervarix, the vaccine being rolled out in the UK and Europe to protect against HPV (human papilloma virus) infection. The vaccine batch has been withdrawn as a precaution.
There is currently no evidence that the death of the 14-year old was linked to the injection. Indeed, the BBC, reports that her mother told reporters that the girl was feeling unwell before she left for school that morning well before she was given the shot.
GlaxoSmithkline’s Cervarix is created using the L1 protein of the HPV viral shell, or capsid, to produce highly immunogenic particles that induce the body to make neutralizing antibodies to HPV. The vaccine contains no live virus and no genetic material, so it cannot infect the patient. The vaccine was developed, in parallel, by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, the University of Rochester, USA, the University of Queensland in Australia, and the US National Cancer Institute.
The most common side-effect are simple residual pain at the injection site, which was 78% of side-effects. Other symptoms are much less common, but are mild and include headaches, dizziness, occasional rashes, and rarely heart palpitations according to the Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Agency. There have been rare reports of more serious conditions such as convulsions.
The BBC says that other girls at the same school in Coventry, England, had dizziness and nausea. These are, however, common symptoms seen in young teenage girls at the time of being given any injection with a hypodermic syringe, one expert in vaccination practice told me.
NHS Coventry is investigating the death. It reports that the girl fainted an hour after the injection and says that it would have expected a more immediate reaction if there were to be one.
The HPV vaccine could save hundreds of lives a year by preventing infection with HPV, which is the primary cause of cervical cancer (HPV type 16 and 18 cause some 70% of cases). Well over a million doses have already been administered with minimal reports of known side-effects. Should it be shown in the post mortem examination that the girl’s death was due to the vaccine, then regulators and healthcare providers must put that into the context of the million-plus vaccinations that have already been provided safely.
Of course, the anti-vaccine lobby will have pounced on this death to add to their propaganda and will already be claiming that there is a cover-up.
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Tragic, of course, but surely even more tragic if young women go on to die of cervical cancer, unvaccinated.
Good opportunity for balanced reporting, one hopes.
Well, hopefully that came across in my post. The girl’s death is tragic, but may not have been due to the vaccine and even if it was there have been 1.4 million shots given so far and as far as I am aware hers is the first death in the UK.
Each girl needs three doses, so that implies about 500,000 girls have been vaccinated. Statistically 1000 of those would have been expected to die of cervical cancer, about 70% are protected from HPV-induced cervical cancer by the vaccine, so that means so far the campaign has protected about 700 girls from death by cervical cancer in the UK alone.
This is an ineffective vaccine. It only covers a couple of strains of HPV (where there are many more) and, even if infected with HPV, one’s body’s immune system can eradicate it – especially if eating a whole foods diet. Natural immunisation is the only viable, sustainable alternative. This is an obvious cover-up. Many women will have their health undermined in more subtle ways which lower the immune system as a whole and which will not be ’scientifically proven’ to have a link with innoculations. All vaccines are the ‘wrong’ choice in my view. My 5 year old daughter has had NO vaccines and has NEVER been ill apart from a handful of colds.
Wake up to the propoganda. Vaccinations are outdated and driven by MONEY. Love and blessings.
There’s a fundamental flaw in your argument about your daughter never having had anything but a handful of colds – couldn’t that simply be because she has not been exposed to pathogens because her peers were innoculated against them.
By the way, what is it exactly that they’re covering up? 1 death in the UK out of 500,000 girls vaccinated? Hmm. Or do you think there have been hundreds of deaths that they’ve somehow managed to hide away without the tabloids getting wind of them?
Oh, one more point. Cervirax innoculates against type 16 and 18, which research suggests account for 705 of cases of cervical cancer…
The post mortem has now revealed that the girl had a malignant thoracic tumor that could have killed her at any time. The question now is, how had this gone undetected, if it was known that she had this cancer, then she would have been advised not to have had the vaccine.
There’s no flaw in my argument. I live in an area of the country where there are a large number of open-minded and informed parents who decide not to allow their children to be vaccinated. Her peers have not been innoculated against pathogens as you assume. She has attended a school since 2 years old where vaccinated children are the exception rather than the norm. I can recommend http://www.informedparent.co.uk as a website that provides compelling reasons why myself and my daughter’s peers’ parents choose not to vaccinate.
What it is exactly that they’re covering up is that this tragic death was not linked to the vaccination that the girl received on that day. Of course there’s a link! And of the 500,000 girls vaccinated, no clinical trials have been performed regarding the longer term, chronic side-effects of the vaccines. I’m not suggesting that there have been hundreds of deaths caused as an immediate and direct result of receiving vaccinations. My post read, “Many women will have their health undermined in more subtle ways which lower the immune system as a whole”.
Unlike all other prescription drugs, vaccinations (Cirvirax included) has not been subject to double-blind clinic trials, and long-term side effects has not been studied. I disagree that Cervirax effectively innoculates against ANY cases of cervical cancer…
Fair enough. But, in this perfect idyll no children suffer any diseases but common colds and none of them have been vaccinated against anything. Could you tell me, off the record, where it is, it sounds like the perfect place to raise children.
I don’t think I said that Cervirax innoculates against ANY cases of cervical cancer.
For the record, I’d prefer not to have to give my children medication of any kind either.
It doesn’t surprise me that the post mortem has revealed that Natalie’s tragic death was unrelated to the vaccine jab she received less than an hour before she passed away. Some cooincidence! The vaccinnation industry is worth billions of pounds worldwide – there’s a lot at stake for the livelyhood of the workers in the BigPharm industry if a causal link were found.
Not meaning to sound facetious – a safe and effective way to protect against cervical cancer would be to use a condom! A better solution for the people – not so for the multimillion pound vaccination industry. No apologies for sounding cynical – I am!
I live in Brighton – my daughter goes to a Buddhist school. It is a great place to live and raise children.
To be clear – I beleive that Cervirax innoculates effectively against NO forms of cervical cancer.
You don’t have to give your children medication of any kind. You do so becaause you choose to. You have free choice (for now.. although I fear it may not always be that way. Vaccinations are compulsary in many US states and the pharmaceutical companies are pushing for the same in the UK).
One more point, if we’re safely all innoculated against all diseases (we’re not) then our children inherit no natural immunity. They’re vulnerable and require the same safe and effective innoculations. Ad infinitum.
Alternively, if we build natural immunity as a result of diet and lifestyle choices (as humans have for thousands of years of evolution bar the past hundred years or so), our children inherit that natural immunity and continue to build on it – ad infinitum.
That the same evolved natural immunity that gave us an average life expectancy at birth of about 40 years?
Not so.
It is well-documented that steep falls in these fatal diseases which are now routinely vaccinated against, e.g. diphtheria, measles and whooping cough, occurred BEFORE the introduction of vaccination. Indeed, death rates had fallen by as much as 95% in the pre-vaccine era.
The natural biological lifespan of a human is around 80 to 100 years and always has been. There are numberous records of peoples from different cultures living for this length of time throughout history.
The life expectancy that you refer to relates to the past 2,000 years or so – mediaval times, the industrial revolution etc. The average life expectancy of a human that isn’t exposed to damp and squallid living, working and sleeping conditions but to a clean, warm, dry environment, who washes their hands after going to the toilet, who takes moderate exercise, breathes fresh air, drinks clean water and eats an organic, raw vegan diet (i.e. is living according to their biological nature) will live on average into their 80s and beyond. NO VACCINATIONS REQUIRED (in fact, vaccinations reduce longevity – they are poisons injected directly into the bloodstream which weaken the immune system).
Check out the statistics: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clifford.g.miller/risks.html#Government_Scaremongering
There’s a good reason why most people vaccinate: FEAR – Backed by multibillion dollar industries. And IGNORANCE – the facts are out there – but too much is at stake economically. Glaxosmithkline etc. need to people to remain ignorant. Remove the blinkers.
I’ve said as much about disease rates elsewhere. But, natural lifespan is not the same as average life expectancy at birth. If you die young of an acute infection you are not going to live a long life. Billions of people throughout prehistory died prematurely of diseases against which a vaccine today will protect them.
I don’t think that following a vegan diet is living to our biological nature – we are most likely to have been scavenger hunter-gatherers millennia before we could hunt or farm, so have most likely always had meat in our diets. Dairy no, but meat yes.
Of course the industry has a vested interest and people do need to be properly informed, but not vaccinating against obvious up-front risks seems blinkered.
Smallpox.
This highlights the case nicely from 2002 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/jan/21/publichealth
I’m fully aware of the differenct between life expectancy at birth and natural lifespan. The inclusion of infant mortality rates in calculating life expectancy creates the mistaken impression that earlier generations died at a young age; Europeans were not dying en masse at the age of 46 in 1907. The fact is that the maximum human lifespan — a concept often confused with “life expectancy” — has remained more or less the same for thousands of years. The idea that our ancestors routinely died young (say, at age 40) has no basis in scientific fact.
The billions of people PREhistory about which you speak did not live under the same environmental conditions as historically where humans have been subject to environmental aspects not conducive to health.
Following a raw vegan diet IS living to our biological nature. Take a look at The China Study: http://www.thechinastudy.com/.
And look at chimpanzees, with whom we share around 98% of our DNA. They don’t have a high mortality rate. They mostly live to 40/50 years, which is their natural biological lifespan. And what do they eat? A raw vegan (apart from aphids/termites etc.) diet. Chimps do eat meat occasionally; not for nutritional gain, but rather as a means to make political bonds. I suggest the ‘hunter’ element of the scavenger hunter-gatherers was for the same reason. The most health-giving diet to maximise human biological requirements does not include meat.
Obvious up-front risks? Do the research. See the start of my last post: “It is well-documented that steep falls in fatal diseases which are now routinely vaccinated against, e.g. diphtheria, measles and whooping cough, occurred BEFORE the introduction of vaccination. Indeed, death rates had fallen by as much as 95% in the pre-vaccine era.”
The information is out there, but you do have to look!
Well on that we are agreed, but that wasn’t what you seemed to imply.
But, like I said I’ve previously written about this area and in essence agree – http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/mmr-and-statistics.html
Please know this: It is well documented that the smallpox and measles death-rate had declined by about 95% BEFORE any measles vaccination had been introduced. This was due to better nutrition, clean water, and improved living conditions. This cannot be denied. It is a black and white fact, with records to back it up, and even pretty plotted timeline graphs to push it home.
The Guardian post from 2002 is yet another piece of scaremongering properganda penned by a scientist whose livelyhood is funded by the medical profession.
You surprise me. It appears that you have done some research on this, yet can’t see the woods for the trees. Oh, I get it. You too are a scientist from the old paradigm whose livelyhood depends on the outdated structures and belief systems of our recent past not being revealed for what they really are. God bless you, Mr Bradley.
Nope…I sit in neither camp to be honest, just here reporting on what’s happening and trying to inspire discussion. I know that sounds lame, but personally I cannot make up my mind either way. I certainly don’t think it’s the uber-conspiracy you allude to, but I do recognise that profits come before people far too often. As to being a scientist from the old paradigm, I’m not that either. But, I also enjoy a good bacon sandwich too much to become a vegan.
I’m not suggesting a conspiracy per se. Profits come before people here. Profits come before pigs too so you can enjoy your bacon sandwich, but speciesism is a whole other debate. And I guess when I refer to the old paradigm I really refer to the current one which is past it’s sell-by date. Once a critical mass of people is living consciously on a spiritual plane these discussions will be irrelevant. There’s alot riding on 2012. But until then….
I wish you hadn’t mentioned 2012. But, regardless I’m closing comments on this post now. I think it’s run its course.